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Ashley Shaw

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  • Member Since: February 25th, 2008
  • South Africa
  • https://www.lsdev.biz
  • Hyper Active Organiser at LightSpeed WordPress Development
  • @feedmymedia on Slack

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Bio/Description

I have been using wordpress since about 2006 and just love the way the community powers things, so thats why I want to get involved in community initiatives, I find engaging other community users inspires me and enlightens me with new ways of doing things.

South Africa is quite far from out of the way, so we rarely get to attend exciting events with lots of international attendees, our events are pretty awesome, but they are only local people with a few international speakers. I feel our community is pretty awesome down here in Cape Town, but my goal is to mix it up with different folks from different countries!

By volunteering I will definitely get to hear different perspectives

Interests

I have a keen interest in APIs, I am not specifically a developer, but my development team do a lot of 3rd party integrations and we quite often make use of wordpress transients to cache data, I am keen to discuss and engage other developers or power users on how they use APIs.

I also have a keen interest in infrastructure and development environments, I enjoy discussing how other developers work, do they use grunt or bower or gulp.

Front End frameworks are interesting, these tie in with how people use grunt, if you use SASS for example then do you use grunt to compile the SASS.

I have a background in systems engineering, specifically on linux and mac, so tinkering with command line entertains me.

WordPress Origin Story

I was at a Barcamp Conference in 2006 hanging out with fellow geeks who were passionate about all sorts of different technologies, everything from python to social networking and social bookmarking. One of the people (Dave Duarte) who was there shared his stories of how he helped Stormhoek wine farm organise geek dinners around the world and through their WordPress blog create a cult geek following internationally.

I connected with Dave Duarte after the Barcamp and he introduced me to blogging, I started my own personal blog on WordPress.com and after that I was hooked! In 2007 I shifted my company away from offering IT support services and we started building WordPress blogs, from their my business evolved into what it is today.

I now use WordPress on a daily basis for business and pleasure!

  • Wrote a comment on the post Global group meeting We had a meeting today…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    I am working out a plan for the doing_it_wrong github wiki documentation with @jcastaneda

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post We are going to have an extra meeting…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    I pushed back my xmas lunch a bit so I will be sure to catch…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Understanding the APIs Related to Theme Options, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Great input Justin, thanks. We will definitely consider your advice along with Chips post.

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post We are going to have an extra meeting…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @karmatosed I totally forgot about my company xmas lunch, could we possibly start with with…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Theme reviewing in other languages meeting notes The…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    10am UTC is fine by me. I see it it is 5pm in Thailand and…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Theme reviewing in other languages meeting notes The…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Maybe this works: London - Thu 07:00 Cape Town - Thu 09:00 Bangkok - Thu…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Theme reviewing in other languages meeting notes The…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @ShinichiN you sent me a tool for checking 3 timezones, could you share the link,…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Theme reviewing in other languages meeting notes The…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    That would be midnight my time, I am usually up really early in the morning,…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Theme reviewing in other languages meeting notes The…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @ShinichiN and I have chatted about possible times that could work, he is going to…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Team meeting: Tools review, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @jcasteneda wrote a blog post asking theme review community to post their experiences and link…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Today’s meeting agenda I’ve gone back all comments…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    The discussion on "not compressing or minifying scripts or files" was related to theme reviews…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post As of today we have streamlined our trac…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Chipping your way through all the tasks we discussed, yay for progress!

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Lets talk about making the theme review team easier to participate in for other languages, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @karmatosed - I am back in South Africa and back into work. During the our…

    3 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post New TRT Admin: Jose Castaneda, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Congrats bud, thanks for the positive work you have been doing!

    3 months ago

  • Is the 192nd person to arrive at WordCamp San Francisco 2014

    4 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Hey mentors and mentees how are things We’ve…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Thanks @gpriday

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Hey mentors and mentees how are things We’ve…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    I felt lost at times when doing the reviews, but through the assistance of two…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Today’s weekly meeting notes This week we had…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @karmatosed isn't there some way to automatically generate weekly stats? Trac is pretty developer friendly,…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Today’s weekly meeting notes This week we had…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Same here @gpriday, have now added to my calendar. Are you in US for the…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post At the theme review team we’d would like…, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    This will definitely save time for the admins once the tool has been created, time…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Mentoring update, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Thanks for support @karmatosed and @gpriday. I have two tickets: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20105 https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20099 I did get…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post WCSF Tickets, TRT Meetup, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Yay! I have my ticket, I am skilling up and trying my best to learn…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post Mentoring update, on the site Theme Review Team:
    @gpriday I see you are based in Cape Town, I am sure we met at…

    5 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post We currently recommend the debogger plugin Here https…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    +1 for stop using it due to providing warnings that are no longer relevant. It…

    5 months ago

  • Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014 coming up October 25th

    5 months ago

  • Created a new ticket, #20694, in Themes Trac:
    THEME: LSX - 1.0

    6 months ago

  • Closed ticket #20046, in Themes Trac:
    THEME: NewwMag - 1.0.1

    6 months ago

  • Wrote a comment on the post WCSF Tickets, TRT Meetup, on the site Theme Review Team:
    I am based in South Africa, have my US visa approved and plane ticket purchased.…

    6 months ago

  • Ashley Shaw’s profile was updated

    6 months ago

  • Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Cape Town 2012

    1 year ago

  • Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Cape Town 2011 coming up September 15th

    1 year ago

  • Created a topic, Watermark not applying to images, on the site WordPress Support Forums

    2 years ago

  • Posted a reply to "Groups automatically added as User Roles", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
    Hello Thanks for the response, although I think you may have misunderstood my query: I've…

    3 years ago

  • Posted a reply to "Groups automatically added as User Roles", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
    Hi again I have looked into the possibility of conflicting plugins causing the issue, but…

    3 years ago

  • Created a topic, Groups automatically added as User Roles, on the site WordPress Support Forums

    3 years ago

  • Posted a reply to "[Plugin: P2 Resolved Posts] WP 3.4-alpha-20291 compatibility", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
    Hello Daniel I work with Chris, we are using the latest version of P2 theme…

    3 years ago

  • Created a topic, Categories not available for menus, on the site WordPress Support Forums

    3 years ago

  • Created a topic, [Plugin: WordPress MU Domain Mapping] WordPress Multilingual Site Conflict with WP MU Domain Mappin, on the site WordPress Support Forums

    3 years ago

  • Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Cape Town 2011 coming up on September 15th

    4 years ago

  • Created a topic, Custom post types & breadcrumbs, on the site WordPress Support Forums

    5 years ago

  • Replied to topic in the WPMU forums, WWW to our wpmu site

    5 years ago

  • Replied to topic in the WPMU forums, WWW to our wpmu site

    5 years ago

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