The BigCommerce Community with Andrew Barber
Nov 29, 2022•20 min•Ep. 140
Episode description
- Brent introduces Andrew and says they're an engineering manager at space 48. Andrew notes they're part of a local council community council, and Brent says they met the lord mayor. Brent says they're going to talk about the free joke project. Andrew mentions that DevX is an internal conference where they get together and exchange ideas. Andrew says they heard about the big hackathon organized by the bigcommerce team.
- Andrew and Brent talk about plans for a big commerce conference in manchester. Andrew notes that there was a discussion in on slack and that they got some good feedback. Brent and Andrew talk about expectations as a developer.
- Andrew and Brent overview bigcommerce and the community manager. Brent and Andrew discuss open saas and how developers can get involved.
- Brent and Andrew discuss building an application and the difference between doing front-end work and being an experienced developer. Brent and Andrew overview how to stage the application and test the authorization mechanisms.
- Andrew says if they’re interested in expanding into ecommerce development, give them a shout. Brent notes that they’ve been to many of the events space 48 puts on, and they’re going to let john steal the one. Brent says it was a challenge to get the accent.