February 25, 2014 — If you’ve ever wanted to make your WordPress passions a full time job you’re not alone. It’s a long journey to go from idea, to a documented, commented, socially mentioned, commonly installed and productive project. In this talk, Frederick reviews many of the tough lessons learned in trying to both build a team, community and movement around a WordPress plugin. He will share tips, best practices and pitfalls and most importantly how to address them once identified. Expect the talk to be highly interactive, the more questions and interruptions you provide the more valuable it will be.

February 25, 2014 — WordPress is used by lots of businesses, and it certainly has a space in the enterprise world. In this talk I explore how WordPress is used by business, in particular those in Europe, and show how the services and culture around large scale WordPress have worked beautifully for the US market but have limited the potential of the platform in other marketplaces. I also find the platform’s weaknesses, and illustrate what we could do as a community to make our favourite CMS a better fit for those large, risky projects that seem to end up going to Drupal or, worse, high cost supposedly enterprise grade content management systems.

February 25, 2014 — You want want to make a living from a plugin? Kim will walk you through 2 years of his own experience building a business out of a plugin. He’ll delve in the freemium model. Hard and easy lessons, you’ll learn from him.

February 24, 2014 — Have you every wondered how you can be part of WordPress? Do you want to contribute to the project but can’t quite find where to start? Don’t worry. Even if you don’t write code there’s a place for you. Everyone has their own niche: there are hundreds of community members doing support, writing documentation, translating WordPress, and organising events. If you’re intrigued come along to learn how to be part of one of the most diverse open source communities around.

February 24, 2014 — This presentation is for WordPress beginners where they could see how to install and use WordPress from the very beginning.

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February 24, 2014 — Social media attorney Ruth Carter shares real-life stories of people who have faced devastating consequences because of their behavior on their blogs & social media & how to avoid the same mistakes.

February 23, 2014 — This presentation will give you a very quick overview of some of the most popular JS libraries & frameworks. They will be compared in several directions. It will present you the difference between library, framework, and toolkit.

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February 23, 2014 — Mario Peshev gives useful advice and best practices for choosing the best WordPress themes.

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February 23, 2014 — For an hour, Matt will be answering your questions. Want to know about the future of WordPress? Want to know what why a specific decision was made? Interested in what people are doing with WordPress worldwide?

February 22, 2014 — .NET and C# are unpopular words in the PHP community. And PHP is an unpopular word in .NET environments. Unless you are using Phalanger … In this presentation Svetlin Nakov demonstrate the project Phalanger (PHP compiler for .NET), which adds the PHP language with minor adaptations to .NET languages ​​(such as C#, VB.NET and F#), and allows compilation of PHP code to MSIL (intermediate code .NET CLR). As demonstration you will see how to run your WordPress to .NET environment (through project WP.NET), how to debug in Visual Studio and how to integrate the C# code in WordPress.

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