April 17, 2016 — I would like to talk about our journey with Freshjobs – a job board for Swiss web professionals. The talk is intended to be a business talk. I’m going to share our experience in designing & building an online platform on top of WordPress. I’ll share some secrets and learning from running & maintaining it for about 5 years now. I will show you how we managed to balance client work and product work and how we focussed on the features that really matter because of financial and time constraints.

April 17, 2016 — Le mot « cache » est un terme très générique en informatique. Appliqué à WordPress, le cache peut être statique, HTTP, opcode, SQL, mais aussi objet.

Cette notion d’objet est certainement la plus complexe à appréhender.

Cette session auront vocation à expliquer le mode de fonctionnement de ce cache, le gain immédiat à son activation, et une mise en oeuvre rapide dans le code de son plugin ou son thème.

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April 17, 2016 — Vous êtes intéressé par une solution qui va vous permettre de travailler sur de multiples environnements en simultané et faciliter les déploiements sur ces derniers ?
Alors venez découvrir en quoi GIT est un must-have, comment il permet d’optimiser et de booster son workflow, et indirectement de « sauvegarder » et « sécuriser » ses sites.

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April 17, 2016 — Les personnes en situation de handicap peuvent rencontrer des difficultés dans l’utilisation des sites Web. WordPress a de nombreux atouts pour la création de sites avec un bon niveau d’accessibilité. Mais le thème choisi ou développé joue un rôle important pour permettre à tous les utilisateurs d’accéder à un site WordPress. C’est pourquoi, à l’aide d’un ensemble d’outils, nous allons voir comment tester un thème WordPress dans le but d’évaluer son niveau d’accessibilité pour ensuite en déduire la liste des améliorations à effectuer.

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April 17, 2016 — Wofür haftet eigentlich ein freiberuflicher IT-Dienstleister oder eine Webagentur? Was sind die häufigsten Schadenfälle aus dem IT-Bereich? Ist eine Rechtsabwehr bei der Berufshaftpflicht-Versicherung inklusive, wenn mein Kunde unberechtigte Forderungen stellt? Dies und noch einiges mehr erläutert uns Andreas in seinem Vortrag.

April 17, 2016 — Privacy is turning into a big deal, not only for end-users but also for those of us who design the digital environments of Internet users. Last year, Dataskydd.net identified a range of simple measures that can be implemented on a website to vastly improve the privacy protection of its visitors. This year, we continue to promote a privacy-friendly web by building tools for individuals to request implementation of these simple measures from web developers. We will provide an ideological and political incentive for „privacy“ (the why) as well as technical tools for web developers to respect the privacy of visitors (the how).

April 17, 2016 — The WordPress ecosystem is maturing every day as new businesses and products enter the market. There are many models that a business can adopt in this diverse market but there are also many challenges that need to be addressed if one wants to not only survive, but thrive.
This talk takes a “been there, tried that” look at the various business models that have been used when selling WordPress products, challenges that need to be considered, and some tried and tested solutions that have worked extremely well for us.

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April 17, 2016 — This session will describe the ultimate safety net for one of your key investments: your WP site.
A brief overview of the moving parts of a WP install/Setup such as database, application and data files will be covered first. Next, we’ll delve more into the tools and procedures required to perform a manual (non-plugin) backup of a WP Site.

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April 15, 2016 — Panelists tell their story and then answer questions about how they transitioned, along with offering tips to the audience. Some panelists have gone from freelance to agency life, others have gone from one or two man shops to building their own legit business.

April 15, 2016 — If you never heard or seen BuddyPress before, then we start off BuddyCamp Miami showing you how to install and configure BuddyPress. Then we will take you through each of it’s main features including members, groups, messages, forums and more. We’ll show you how to configure BBPress for forums (both site-wide and group forums). Finally, we will examine some useful themes and plugins for BuddyPress.