Speakers: Tom J Nowell
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Tom J Nowell: Building a block
WordCamp Glasgow 2020Speaker: Tom J NowellApril 22, 2020 — Let’s build a Gutenberg block! Tom will cover building a basic block in javascript, and in PHP. A great opportunity to refresh on the basics and lay a solid foundation. Suitable for intermediate developers.
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Tom J Nowell: SVG’s Incredibly Secure, Definitely Not A Problem
WordCamp Manchester 2018Speaker: Tom J NowellJuly 30, 2019 — Tom J Nowell demonstrates potential vulnerabilities when using SVG files.
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Tom J Nowell: HTTP2 Push for the Stars
WordCamp London 2019Speaker: Tom J NowellJune 5, 2019 — Why make your site load fast when you can pre-load everything in advance? Take advantage of those SSL certificates to speed everything up, prefetch resources, preload pages, and push assets to the browser directly before the HTML arrives.
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Tom J Nowell: Turbocharging Site Speed… With Taxonomies
WordCamp Belfast 2018Speaker: Tom J NowellApril 17, 2019 — Taxonomies can give you product categories, or city tags, but did you know with the right tricks they can massively boost your sites performance?
Follow Tom down the rabbit hole of private taxonomies, learn the common data storage mistakes that cripple your sites performance nobody’s talking about
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Tom Nowell: Using a REST API for Absolute Beginners
WordCamp Edinburgh 2017Speaker: Tom J NowellApril 7, 2019 — For those who have never used the REST API but know basic PHP, this talk will cover how to make a basic endpoint, how to use it on the frontend, and how to convert AJAX calls.
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REST APIs for absolute beginners
WordCamp Brighton 2017Speaker: Tom J NowellJanuary 29, 2018 — For those who have never used the REST API but know basic PHP, this talk will cover how to make a basic endpoint, how to use it on the frontend, and how to convert AJAX calls.
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Tom Nowell: Unconference – Food at WordCamps and events
WordCamp Dublin 2017Speaker: Tom J NowellNovember 12, 2017 — Unconference Talk: Food at WordCamps and events
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Tom J Nowell: Using Varying Vagrant Vagrants 2
WordCamp London 2017Speaker: Tom J NowellMay 30, 2017 — VVV 1 is a popular local developer environment, but VVV 2 is now available with significant improvements to site setup.
This session will walk through the new features, and how to migrate to VVV 2
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Tom Nowell: Handling Anxiety
WordCamp Europe 2016Speaker: Tom J NowellJuly 1, 2016 — Our work can be stressful, and when stressed we face many problems stemming from burnout, anxiety, depression, and others. In this talk, I’ll walk through my own experiences with anxiety as I’ve progressed in my career, and share the strategies I’ve found that can help developers and support take care of themselves, along with the support that companies can provide for prevention
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Tom J Nowell: Escape from New York
WordCamp NYC 2015Speaker: Tom J NowellDecember 20, 2015 — Think your theme is secure? Your plugin API can be trusted? Think again. I’m going to show you how to make your site iron-cast by escaping your way to security
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