Archive for 2014
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Kira Song: Heartbeat API Jumpstart
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Kira SongAugust 5, 2014 — As of WordPress 3.9, the Heartbeat API is no longer experimental! It’s intended to help developers synchronize data between the browser and server without manually sending individual AJAX calls. Learn Heartbeat basics and have a quick run through on how it’s used by WordPress’ core.
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Konstantin Obenland: Options, and Transients, and Theme Mods, Oh My!
WordCamp St. Louis 2014Speaker: Konstantin ObenlandAugust 5, 2014 — We will look at the difference between Options and Transients, in what situations plugin developers should use one over the other, and why one is not superior to the other.
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Kimberly Gauthier: I Started a Blog, Now What?
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Kimberly GauthierAugust 4, 2014 — You may be new to blogging or you may have hit a wall; we’ve all been there and here are 5 easy steps I took to get “unstuck” and moving forward.
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Nancy Thanki: Images for WordPress Done Right
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Nancy ThankiAugust 4, 2014 — Whether you’re setting up a portfolio page, a site for Realtors, or for a professional blogger, images are important. But how do you use images that look great and don’t slow down visitors to your site? What are some important considerations you need to have in mind? This talk covers things like how WordPress handles images and what you need to know about that (thumbnails, regeneration); how to compress your images; how and when to use progressive jpegs, for instance, or pngs; and what you can do to help images on your site load faster (Photon, CDNs, static asset caching, parallel downloading, etc).
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Brent Shepherd: Develop Very Mild Superpowers with Git
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Brent ShepherdAugust 4, 2014 — Git is a powerful version control tool every WordPress developer should include in their utility belt. But with great power comes great difficulty in learning how to use the darn thing!
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Aaron Holbrook: Introduction to IDEs and Debugging
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Aaron HolbrookAugust 3, 2014 — Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and Debugging – discover what the fuss is all about!
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Rebecca Gill: Solutions Before Development – Creating WordPress Products That Actually Sell
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Rebecca GillAugust 3, 2014 — This session discuss’ the process of successfully transitioning from selling WordPress services to digital products.
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Gregory Cornelius: Taking Your JavaScript Further
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Gregory CorneliusAugust 3, 2014 — The design of JavaScript code in WordPress core has changed quite a bit over the last few years. This talk breaks down a few approaches for writing modern JavaScript and share some of the recently added DOM APIs.
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George Stephanis: Moving your Plugin to GitHub – Trials, Tribulations, and Testing
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: George StephanisAugust 2, 2014 — The Jetpack team migrated their primary development from the WordPress.org plugins repository to GitHub. This talk looks at why they made the change and how it’s affected their workflow.
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Jeremy Felt: Small Changes Toward Big Things
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Jeremy FeltAugust 2, 2014 — Large projects often change scope rapidly, hence the use of ambiguous words like scale and platform. This session covers general strategies around approaching your project with an incremental mindset. Version control, environment, collaboration, and deployment all play key roles when pushing a platform to serve big needs. By laying out a strategy at the start and making consistent small changes, your platform will scale before anyone realizes.
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