June 21, 2020 — Performance matters. Doug’s talk will take a look at some tools and techniques that will boost your site’s speed. There are three main places where speed can be impacted when delivering a site to an end user, and we can have differing levels of impact on each of those places.
The first is the end user’s hardware and browser. The second is the infrastructure used to serve the site, and the third is the code for the site.

January 11, 2018 — Learn how Docker can be used to build consistent platforms. Discover how Docker can make your workflow faster. Better understand containers and how they work.

June 17, 2017 — A case study on using Docker to develop from multiple machines. Covering docker-compose, docker files, basic commands and a few clever nginx hacks to round things out.

Takeaways:

Learn how Docker can be used to build consistent platforms
Discover how Docker can make your workflow faster
Better understand containers and how they work

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June 4, 2017 — A case study on using Docker to develop from multiple machines. Covering docker-compose, docker files, basic commands and a few clever nginx hacks to round things out.

October 6, 2014 — WordPress gives us all so much for free. Thousands of lines of code, thousands of hours of other people’s time all for the unbelievable price of free. So, ready to give back? It’s easy. This talk covers several ways that you can contribute to WordPress including ways that you can contribute if you’re not a programmer.