June 10, 2019 — Going from co-founding a digital agency in a tiny suburban garage to running a company of 30 people has taught me things – many of which I’ve learned from my own failures. I’d like to present the 5 biggest mistakes of my entrepreneurial life so far to hopefully help others learn from those mistakes.

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June 10, 2019 — A diverse environment like your WordPress site is inherently difficult to control. If you are a developer, you can make sure your own code meets quality standards and honors best practices, but it is usually not possible to do the same for plugins created by others. It becomes even more of a problem if you are required to rely on third-party code entirely, for example when you maintain a WordPress site, but don’t write extensions for it yourself.

Recently, new browser technologies have been introduced to help tackle such issues. Content Security Policies and Feature Policies allow you to define contracts between your site and the browser, efficiently enforcing your site to stick to certain best practices you define. You don’t want your site to ever serve images that are too large? You don’t want your site to ever give the user that pop-up for browser notifications? These new policies put you in control over how your site interacts with the user, relying on the browser as a middle man. If there is a violation of the policies you have defined, the browser can inform you via a new Reporting API standard, allowing you to spot the problem and act upon it. This session will provide an introduction to these new technologies, and then dive into how you can use them in WordPress.

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June 10, 2019 — So you’re a splendid developer or designer, you bring your A game to work every day. You sleep like a log and jog like a fox and you’re practically unstoppable. Until feedback from your boss, colleague, or a customer comes into your inbox and all of a sudden, you’re this fiery ball of anger, resentment, and curse words. What just happened? How can you learn to receive feedback like a Buddhist unicorn, and how can you even benefit from it?

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June 10, 2019 — The new WordPress block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) is a radical change for developers used to working with PHP. If you needed to learn JavaScript deeply and quickly to update your plugins and keep everything working, you may still feel a bit overwhelmed. The development of blocks represents a major challenge for all of us not proficient in JavaScript. In this talk we will show you a set of good practices to follow when developing with Gutenberg, as well as typical mistakes that you should avoid so that your code doesn’t break anything.

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June 10, 2019 — Keynote for WordCamp Atlanta 2019

June 10, 2019 — WordPress 5.0 nos trajo el editor de bloques, WordPress 5.1 nos trajo mejoras generales y la integración mínima de PHP. Ahora llega WordPress 5.2 con muchas otras novedades, entre ellas el sistema contra el WSOD.

¿Quieres conocer todas las novedades y qué repercusiones puede tener el paso de versiones anteriores de WordPress 5.x a 5.2?

Además, en el tiempo restante, podremos hacer un poco de debate y consultas sobre temas diversos.

June 10, 2019 — Some people are intimidated by the Gutenberg editor. It is different than the classic editor. I’m here to tell you that the Gutenberg blocks are your friends!

In this session, we will meet our friends the Gutenberg blocks. We will discuss how easy it is to build beautiful media-rich pages and posts with GB’s (Gutenberg Blocks).

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June 10, 2019 — When the new block-based editor was released earlier this year, WordPress development was about to get a lot harder. Instead of the low barrier to entry PHP we are used too, along came React and JavaScript based development practices.

How are “traditional” developers like me supposed to keep up? Well, fear not as I will show you in this talk the ways in which I build WordPress sites, using the block editor, developing custom blocks which meet the clients’ needs.

I will outline how we standardised our block-based development into a plugin which we use on many of the sites we build today.

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June 10, 2019 — As an Agency owner, I have learnt that Collaboration has been the key to our success. Sharing those experiences and ideas is providing other agencies / individuals with the chance to learn that by grasping the WordPress community ethos of sharing ideas and working with other companies is a Benefit NOT a issue. I will demonstrate that it can be a great way to:

Learn
Increase revenue
Give back

Everything has a pattern underneath. Designs can be broken down, distilled into patterns. When you think in patterns the process can be faster, easier. I’ll show you in this talk, that whatever you label it, the concept is powerful, natural. A fragmented approach to design goes perfectly with modern development and gives you a robust workflow for the future.

Problem solving may not sound like the most rock and roll topic of conversation… and that might be so, but it’s at the core of everything we do, a skill so universal it transcends software, job role, even occupation.

June 10, 2019 — I’d like to talk about how the communications world, whether web designers or digital advertisers can use their skills for good, and how this can give them reputation, a sense of purpose and the get up and go mood every morning. Sustainability in business isn’t just a thing to tick boxes anymore, it’s the fastest route for both product and service businesses to get into the spotlight.

I’d like to go over some examples of companies who have purpose and how they’ve incorporated campaigns to raise awareness of this purpose, talk about transparency and talk about how developers can look at their job and incorporate environmental / social factors into their day to day role.

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