{"id":1100,"date":"2018-07-04T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1100"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:21:09","slug":"simon-foxe","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/simon-foxe\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Foxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1267\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/simon-foxe\/simon-foxe-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"simon-foxe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1267\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.sydney.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/simon-foxe.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simon Foxe has worked in both infrastructure and development sides of the tech industry since the early 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>He is the director of Codeflow, a WordPress specialised development business servicing clients in Australia, United States and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>He has been running Codeflow from the road for the last 4 years, and recently completed the Remote Year program, living and working in a different country each month with 65 other digital nomads.<\/p>\n<h2><!--more--><\/h2>\n<h2>Digital Nomad Development<\/h2>\n<p>An exploration of ideas, lessons, hacks and opportunities to make you a more productive WP developer&#8230; and take your business on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Topic points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lessons learned whilst traveling the world as a remote WP developer.<\/li>\n<li>Hard realities of what it&#8217;s like to be a digital nomad, and what you need to do to make it profitable<\/li>\n<li>Australian specific tax implications and opportunites<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge maintenance is required, and turn it into a product you sell to your clients (eg: ManageWP, InfiniteWP)<\/li>\n<li>Develop using &#8216;reusable function&#8217; methodologies in your business (eg: starter themes, child themes, frameworks). 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