Archive for 2019

  • David Wolfpaw: The Power of CSS: Cool Things To Do With Styles

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: David Wolfpaw

    October 11, 2019 — Frontend Developers are trained to work with JavaScript, and to use it to create interactivity on sites. But there are plenty of cool things that you can do with standard HTML and CSS.

    Whether it’s fitting images into boxes, fitting boxes onto screens, or filling screens with beautifully animated user interactions, CSS can have you covered!

  • Francesca Marano: The art of networking

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Francesca Marano

    October 11, 2019 — Networking is a great tool to grow your business. It can help you find new ideas, new customers, new partners, and even a new job if you are looking for a career change. Networking comes naturally to some people but is dreaded by others. It can be hard if you are not an extrovert and it is time consuming. The good news is you can learn how to network! How do you get out of your comfort zone and push yourself to talk to potentially interesting people? How do you measure the return on investment? How do you find a good balance between schmoosing and getting down to business? Let’s find out together!

  • Kåre Steffensen: How Gutenberg changed the way we sell WordPress sites

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Kåre Steffensen

    October 11, 2019 — In early 2018, Peytz & Co started using Gutenberg to power a boilerplate theme on which they built custom websites. Kåre will talk about how Gutenberg helped better align sale pitch and client understanding of what is actually developed in a modular approach when looking at functionality and content, on a website that is bound to change over time.

  • Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Marieke van de Rakt: How to engage your online audience: How to engage your online audience: Lessons from the field of education

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speakers: Jesse van de Hulsbeek, Marieke van de Rakt

    October 11, 2019 — Whether people are browsing your website, reading your content, or using your product, you have one vital and universal requirement to fulfil as a creator: Anything you present to your audience should be clear and understandable. Surprisingly and often, this proves to be a tough challenge. Users are overwhelmed by design, shy away from difficult copy, and become frustrated with features that aren’t intuitive. Marieke and Jesse explore learning and information processing theory and practices, so you can bridge the gap between you and your users. You’ll get lots of practical tips you can apply immediately.

  • Daniel Kanchev: More aim, less blame: How to use postmortems to turn failures into something valuabl

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Daniel Kanchev

    October 11, 2019 — Mistakes and failure are inevitable. Instead of being afraid of them, we should use them as lessons that help identify weak points in our organisations and systems. One way to do this is by writing blameless postmortems. Daniel details exactly how postmortems can help organisations and teams focus on improvement, and how that boosts work morale, makes products better, and strengthens your relationship with customers.

  • Local development on Docker: the easy way!

    WordCamp Milano 2017Speaker: Eugenio Petullà

    October 11, 2019 — Docker è la tecnologia di cui ogni svilppatore aveva bisogno. Dopo aver assistito a questo talk sarete in grado di configurare e gestire in locale un ambiente di sviluppo WordPress senza dover lanciare alcuna macchina virtuale, semplicemente editando un banale file.

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  • Tammie Lister: A tale of Gutenberg usability testing

    WordCamp Milano 2017Speaker: Tammie Lister

    October 11, 2019 — This is a tale of how usability testing began as a community project and grew. Discover along the way the results and how they influenced the project so far. Learn how to run usability tests and also a lot more about Gutenberg along the way.

  • Giuseppe Mazzapica: Rock-SOLID code

    WordCamp Milano 2017Speaker: Giuseppe Mazzapica

    October 11, 2019 — Da quando intorno all’anno 2000 l’acronimo SOLID è stato coniato, esso è spesso usato come sinonimo di codice di qualità.
    Infatti, seguendo i principi espressi da SOLID gli sviluppatori possono creare e mantenere codice elegante e robusto nonché facilmente scalabile ed estendibile.
    In questo talk verranno elencati ed illustrati con esempi basilari i cinque principi a cui SOLID fa riferimento, mostrandone applicazioni pratiche in contesto di codice WordPress.

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  • John Blackbourn: An Explanation of HTTPS for the Inexperienced

    WordCamp Milano 2017Speaker: John Blackbourn

    October 11, 2019 — What is HTTPS? Why should I care?

    That little green padlock next to a website address is very important. It indicates that your communication with that website is using HTTPS, a communication protocol that secures everything that you do online.

    If you’re an end user, a developer, a business person, or indeed anybody who uses the Internet, this talk will introduce you to HTTPS from the very basics such as how computers communicate over the Internet, to how it affects your business, your clients, and your personal life.

    This is a technical explanation that will suit anyone from the non-technical to experienced developers.

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  • Francesca Marano: L’abc del sito del freelance

    WordCamp Milano 2017Speaker: Francesca Marano

    October 11, 2019 — Dieci anni fa quando si iniziava un’attività la prima spesa erano i biglietti da visita. Oggi si pensa prima al sito. Spesso i freelance creano un sito senza un piano e un obiettivo chiari. È vero che WordPress rende relativamente facile la creazione di un sito, ma sarebbe meglio farsi alcune domande prima di imbarcarsi in questa impresa (sì, è epica e no, non c’è bisogno di imparare a scrivere codice).
    Tutti i freelance hanno bisogno di un sito?
    Se si decide di crearne uno, quali pagine dovrebbero assolutamente esserci?
    Quali informazioni sono utili per i lettori? Quali assolutamente inutili?
    E questi lettori poi, chi sono? E come si scrive proprio per loro.
    In questa sessione esplorerò delle domande comuni che i freelance hanno prima di costruire il proprio sito e cercherò di dare delle risposte che aiutino in questa epica impresa.

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