In this episode, I'm chatting with Gary Jones. I'm honored to have Gary on the show. He is your go-to person when you want things done right. He is a huge asset to the Genesis community and shares his knowledge in so many ways. If you spend any time on Github - you are sure to see his name as a contributor on so many open source projects.

Let's get started.

Meet Gary Jones
Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, code consultant and father of extremely premature twins. Driven by a passion for excellence, he creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other web designers and developers.

He's worked on projects for SiteGround, Yoast, StudioPress, Web Savvy Marketing, Daniels Trading, Rolls-Royce and many smaller design and development agencies and individuals.

Gary is a key contributor to the GENESIS FRAMEWORK and has contributed to all except one major branch of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the COMMUNITY, and is a co-host on the UK GENESIS PODCAST.

A former teacher in schools and prisons, Gary's goal is to educate WordPress professionals on how they can improve their code. His motto is knowledge is power.

Show Notes
Gary's site: Gamajo Tech
Twitter: @garyj
Podcast: UK Genesis
Github: GaryJones
Genesis Slack Channel: Request Invite
A Few Valuable Links & Resources :
WordPress Coding Standards
WordPress Coding Standards for PHP_CodeSniffer
PHPStorm
Atom
StudioPress and Genesis Framework

Transcript
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Jackie Hey, everybody. It's Jackie D'Elia with another episode of Rethink.fm for you and today I have Gary Jones who is a UK resident and a Genesis expert in our community.
Hey, Gary.
Gary Hi. How are you doing, Jackie?
Jackie Very good. Thanks for joining me on the first episode for season 2, which is kind of awesome to have you here.
Gary Thank you very much.
Jackie For anyone who doesn't know who you are in the Genesis community, would you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Gary Absolutely. My name's Gary Jones. I'm based in Basingstoke in the UK. I run a small virtual agency creating technical WordPress solutions for clients, including integrations with their business critical systems. I'm a contributor to the Genesis Framework and WordPress core and many plugins and open source projects. I'm cohost of the UK Genesis podcast, although we haven't done many recordings recently, general translation editor for the British English locale in WordPress and organizer of WorkCamp London, father of five-year-old twins, and my background is teaching in schools and prisons.
Jackie Wow. That was awesome. You just went right through the whole thing. That is great.
Gary It helps being prepared ahead of time and actually writing my introduction down this time.
Jackie Yeah. If you're working in Genesis and you're in GitHub at all, it's hard not to see your name all around as a contributor for, like you said, numerous plugins, many open source projects. I see your name as a contributor on a lot of things.
Gary Yeah. A lot of the things that I contribute to are effectually under other people's names. It's under their repo or their GitHub name. One of the things I like doing is helping others. Irrespective of the context that might be helping clients or, in this case, helping other developers. If I can contribute something to their plugin then I'll go ahead and fork it and make the change and send it back to them. If it makes their plugin better and people recognize that there's a slightly better plugin or slightly better package that has got their name...