July 18, 2015 — Do you want to know more about the differences between WordPress.com and self-hosted version of WordPress? Want to learn more about all the products that Automattic is responsible for?

July 17, 2015 — Backbone (and Underscore!) are bundled with WordPress – explore how you can leverage their power to deliver complex user experiences while keeping your code organized and maintainable.

First, we will explore why Backbone is awesome, and what it lets you create is amazing! We will look at some examples of where and how it is used to power web apps and increasingly large areas of the WordPress dashboard. Seeing these incredible user experiences built in Backbone will help get you excited about using Backbone in your next project.

Next, we will dig into Backbone fundamentals to get a crystal clear understanding of the fundamental concepts underlying Backbone applications: Models, Views and Collections. We’ll look at how these tie to templates, events and routes for rendering, interaction and state handling. We discuss using Backbone in themes and plugins: how to include Backbone, how to interact with the back end to get and put data, including using the new WP REST API. We will cover WordPress specific helper functions that help our Backbone projects.
Finally, we will explore several very simple Backbone applications that demonstrate interacting with WordPress using the Rest API.

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July 17, 2015 — WordPress has thousands of themes and plugins freely available. Not all of them are coded beautifully or tested with big WordPress sites. When a bad piece of code goes live on a WordPress site, it can slow down site and even crash server in some cases.
Goal of this session is to show how EasyEngine and other tools/techniques can be used to debug performance bottleneck on a WordPress site.

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July 17, 2015 — What is Real-Time communication?
Why is Real-Time communication great, and why is HTTP, the protocol driving the web not the best solution?
How to enable Real-Time communication for WordPress using Socket.IO

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July 17, 2015 — Akismet WordPress Plugin Overview

July 17, 2015 — Overview of Broken Link Checker Plugin

July 17, 2015 — Successful WordPress entrepreneurs share the lessons learned while building a company from scratch and tell the tales of all the challenges and trials experienced along the way.

July 16, 2015 — Offering HTTPS is beneficial for site owners and visitors alike. Whether you need to protect your admin credentials, or just to raise the search engine ranking of your site. You can do both with HTTPS!
I show the pitfals and how to make your site HTTPS compatible while giving developers some hints on the most common mistake when creating themes or plugins which can break HTTPS.

July 16, 2015 — One of the newest tools on the market is an open source system called Vagrant. Thanks to this amazing application, you can quickly and easily create a new virtual development environment at a moments notice.

July 16, 2015 — The WordPress community has many local faces, at many different levels. In this talk, Xavier explores how a local community gets to be, how it might evolve, how it should approach having a local event/WordCamp, and at which points the global community and the local community intersect.