Speakers: Brad Parbs
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Brad Parbs: Powerful Local Development Environments with Vagrant and Friends
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Brad ParbsMay 24, 2015 — This talk walks through setting up a professional, powerful, and efficient local development environment. It discusses how to get set up, why, and the different things you can do with a great set up.
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Brad Parbs: Writing Extensible Plugins
WordCamp Phoenix 2014Speaker: Brad ParbsJune 5, 2014 — Functionality in a WordPress site usually requires a variety of plugins, all that need to work together. Sometimes, plugins need to be extended and modified. Brad went through how to build a plugin that supports extensibility and modification, without hacks. This was an interactive session, where everyone in attendance shared their tips and tricks for extending plugins.
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Brad Parbs: Getting SASSy: Fun with CSS Preprocessors
WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsOctober 14, 2013 — In this talk learn to write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster.
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Brad Parbs: Getting SASSy – Fun with CSS Preprocessors
WordCamp Providence 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsAugust 29, 2013 — Write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster. Starting from a beginner’s perspective, this talk allows anyone (designers & developers) to get started with SASS or LESS for their WordPress theming.
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Brad Parbs: Responsive Design Primer
WordCamp Providence 2012Speaker: Brad ParbsJune 12, 2013 — Want to learn what Responsive Design is? Learn the history of web design, what RWD is, why you should care, how you can get started using it, and some great tips for anyone who uses WordPress.
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Brad Parbs: 320px and Up, Getting Started with Responsive Design
WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012Speaker: Brad ParbsMay 7, 2013 — 320px and Up – Responsive Web Design, what is it, the benefits, a background on it, how to get started, and things to watch out for while developing sites that work on any mobile phone, tablet, desktop, and more.
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Brad Parbs: WordPress File Structure, FTP & MySQL
WordCamp Phoenix 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsFebruary 7, 2013 — Brad Parbs talks about the WordPress File Structure, who does what, trac, Theme Structure & Template Hierarchy, FTP and MySQL.
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Brad Parbs: Intro to Responsive Design
WordCamp Phoenix 2013Speaker: Brad ParbsJanuary 31, 2013 — Attendees will learn the basic history of web design, what Responsive Design is, why you should care, how you can get started using it, and some great tips for anyone who uses WordPress. People will be inspired to make their sites responsive, as well realizing it is quite simple and easy to do so.
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Brad Parbs: 320px and Up, Getting Started with Responsive Design
WordCamp Detroit 2012Speaker: Brad ParbsNovember 2, 2012
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