About Brad Williams
Brad Williams is the Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com. He is also a co-host on the DradCast Podcast and the co-author of the books Professional WordPress and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad has been developing websites for over 15 years, including the last 5 where he has focused on open-source technologies like WordPress.
Brad has written five books on WordPress:
Professional WordPress Plugin Development Second Edition
Professional WordPress Third Edition
Professional WordPress Second Edition
Professional WordPress Plugin Development
Professional WordPress
Brad has given presentations at various WordCamps across the country. He is also the co-organizer of WordCamp Philly 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup. Brad was also a co-organizer for the Inaugural WordCamp US in 2015 and 2016. In 2010 Brad founded Pluginize.com, a company dedicated to building custom WordPress plugins.
Brad is a computer programmer and tech junkie who enjoys exploring technology and sharing his knowledge and experience with others.
In the beginning was my first computer, the Commodore 64. I remember sitting in my chair reading through a BASIC programming book writing my first program. It was a “Guess the number between 1 and 10” program. I actually just typed the code straight from the book, but I was only 8 so can you fault me?
A few years passed and I moved up to the solid Macintosh Performa 550. I was addicted! I loved that Mac. I spent countless hours just clicking through every directory on that computer trying to learn as much as I possibly could. I even remember the second night we had that computer I thought I broke it because of some config changes I made. Luckily I didn’t!
Then the internet was born. I first logged on the internet on AOL using a 2400bps modem when AOL 2.0 was launched in September 1994. Man those were the days! Nothing like paying for the internet by the minute! I don’t remember very many websites from back then. I do remember Netscape, Yahoo, WebCrawler, and a few others. I primarily used the internet for chat. I’ve always thanked AOL for my mad typing skills!
I was hooked! I loved the internet. I even spent a little bit of time on eVillage, the Apple only online community. Even in those days I knew I would be working with the internet and computers the rest of my life. I made sure to take every computer class I could get in at school. After school I decided to try something different.
I spent four years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. My primary job was computer programmer (MOS 4067) but every Marine is a trained killer! I did one tour in Kuwait/Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
