May 30, 2023 — Construyendo relaciones y oportunidades.

En esta charla destaco la importancia de construir una marca personal para los profesionales, la cual es la combinación única de habilidades, experiencias y personalidad que se quiere que el mundo vea.

La creación de una marca personal permite una diferenciación en el mercado laboral, mayor visibilidad y reputación, incremento de oportunidades de negocio, desarrollo de una red de contactos más amplia, confianza y credibilidad, control de la imagen pública y una identidad única y auténtica.

Explicaré algunos pasos importantes y herramientas que se pueden utilizar para la creación de la marca personal de los profesionales.

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May 30, 2023 — This talk aims to inspire and empower young professionals, including engineers, designers, and anyone else, to take control of their careers and achieve their full potential.

I will share strategies for building self-esteem and self-worth to help you navigate the job search challenges. By the end of this talk, you will feel more confident and motivated to pursue your career goals.

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May 29, 2023 — Do you want to learn more about using the block editor and nesting blocks? In this session, we will take a closer look at grouping blocks into a container block and explore creating more advanced block layouts.

May 27, 2023 — Hay dos formas de ver la popular serie de televisión de La Casa de Papel: con los ojos de una persona amante de las series o con los ojos de una diseñadora freelance que se ha dividido entre proyectos web complicados y clientes de todo tipo durante los años.

Después de una maratón de capítulos, logré extrapolar cinco lecciones útiles y concretas para la gestión de clientes y proyectos.

Y los resumí, ayudándome con algunas anécdotas de mi carrera, en un vademécum semi-serio para sobrevivir a esa vida como freelance.

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May 26, 2023 — May is European Diversity Month 2023, and we want to harness the opportunity to push the conversation on diversity – and hence on inclusivity – with a panel that will focus on the value of “stepping up” and shining!

The panelists will share their experiences, insights, and best practices to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the professional world, with a special focus on encouraging women and minorities to participate more actively in public speaking at conferences.

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May 26, 2023 — As designers, we have a fundamental role in giving shape to the world that surround us and in defining how we interact with it, and yet the design practice is still perceived as – and often confined to – marginal roles, generally aesthetic, superficial and hardly relevant.

As we know, though, “design is how it works”. Which is why it is growingly important to reiterate, promote, support, and reiterate again how fundamental is to cultivate and promote the value of the culture of the design practice.
Just as it’s important that young designers be aware that this job is more like a mission: a lifetime journey, where, along with talent, one must bring – and cultivate – competences, knowledge, professionalism, ethics, values, and value.

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May 26, 2023 — We were told to learn Javascript, deeply… But if you are anything like me, still more comfortable in the backend, here are some tips on surviving in this strange new block-based word.

Good people who learnt JS deeply before us have created some nice tools that we can use from the comfort of our PHP, without venturing (much) into the realm of package managers, build processes, compilers, frontend frameworks and other newfangled creatures. And still create beautiful and functional things.

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May 26, 2023 — Abordagem de vários tópicos relacionados com a saúde e forma física de profissionais que trabalham muito tempo sentados ou com hábitos sedentários, entre os quais:

Importância do exercício físico para a saúde física e mental;
Más posturas durante o trabalho e correções para as mesmas;
Pequenas e fáceis ações e rotinas a adotar, que fazem toda a diferença;
Dicas para evitar o sedentarismo e prevenção de doenças associadas ao mesmo.

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May 26, 2023 — 43% dos sites no mundo usam WordPress e ainda temos password 123456, utilizadores admin com password igual a password. e as pessoas culpam o WordPress por não ser “tão seguro”, a culpa é sua.

Todo o software tem as suas falhas de segurança, mas isso não significa que precisamos ajudar a criar mais falhas, algumas regras básicas devem ser seguidas e temos que evitar a má fama do WordPress ser um gestor de conteúdo que pode ser invadido com facilidade.

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May 26, 2023 — It’s clear how PHP has evolved in the last years, but a lot of developers are still using or thinking the same way as if they are using PHP 5 or PHP 7. The idea of this talk is to give a hands-on overview of new and exciting features of PHP 8, how to upgrade old code, and, especially, how you take your way of thinking code to another level.

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