November 10, 2025 — Every year we’re asked to “do more with less” while budgets continue to shrink. As a development team, how do we continue to manage all our responsibilities while taking on even more? Automation.

While developers understand how helpful automated testing can be, getting started can be overwhelming. Finding time to learn and research, as well as designing tests tailored to specific needs, can be daunting. As a result, automated testing is often pushed to the back burner and forgotten due to various constraints.

In this workshop, attendees will gain insight into the benefits of end-to-end testing. This involves testing an application from start to finish, simulating a real user scenario, and testing the application as an integrated whole. Using the Cypress testing framework, we will go hands-on in the setup of the testing framework, and the process of integrating it into our workflows, before writing our first test together. Attendees will leave with a set of tests they can immediately put into practice, and a solid idea of how they can expand those tests to fit their unique needs.

January 15, 2024 — You’re working with some data and find yourself needing to find a specific piece of information, but your searches keep matching things that you don’t want. While basic searches are fine for some things, every once in a while you need something more powerful.
Enter regular expressions (also referred to as “regex”). BUT WAIT! Before you scroll to the next session description: did you know that this powerful searching capability is available in things like Word and Excel, as well as Google Search Console and Google Analytics? And not only can you use it to search for information, you can also use it to transform information!

In this session, we’ll jump into a brief history of regex, discuss pattern matching, and dive into the fundamentals of how we can use regex to surface the data we’ve been searching for in powerful ways. We’ll play some regex-based games to help hone our skills, all while demystifying the idea that regular expressions are dark magic, beyond the capabilities of mere mortals.

August 25, 2022 — Learn about GitOps as an evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices.

This talk explores the idea of GitOps, using Git as the single source of truth, including principles, processes, and practices of building a GitOps workflow. Evaluate if GitOps is right for your team. (If your infrastructure is already in the cloud, the potential is good.)

Find out how GitOps can empower developers to respond to requests faster, improve security and reliability, and generally do more with less.

August 17, 2017 — Whether you’re brand new to WordPress or a season developer, web security is everyone’s responsibility. Utilizing black box scanning tools, find out what types of information your WordPress site is leaking, how attackers can use this information to compromise your site and steps you can take to mitigate this risk.

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March 29, 2017 — Between 2015 through 2016 Google saw an increase of 160 percent from the year before. With WordPress powering over a quarter of the entire web, we can be confident a good percentage of those sites were running WordPress. In this session, we will examine blackbox scanning tools to discover what types of information your WordPress site might be leaking to attackers, information they can use to potentially compromise your site. Then we’ll explore steps we can take to stop this information leakage — one key segment of a larger strategy to fortify WordPress sites.