Speakers: Zachary Hickson

  • Leveraging the MVC Pattern for Enterprise WordPress Development

    WordCamp Sydney 2024Speaker: Zachary Hickson

    November 25, 2024 — The Code Company has been working with global enterprise brands for a decade, and one of the keys to being able to share developer knowledge and efficiency across projects is by using a consistent project framework.

    Our core framework at TCC, unofficially named “WPMVC”, is a basic, unopinionated PHP framework that leverages a basic Model-View-Controller structure that works for any project that we’ve encountered (so far).

    As part of this talk we’ll cover:
    Some background on how we developed this framework
    Comparison to other popular PHP frameworks
    Why we have chosen this specific approach, and the benefits we’ve seen
    Some real-life use-cases
    Upcoming features and improvements

    In addition, as part of this talk we will be making our “WPMVC” framework open source and available for you to use in your own projects.

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  • Panel – Reinvigorating Local WordPress Communities

    WordCamp Sydney 2024Speakers: Dee Teal, Jo Minney, Sandra Lopez, Vladimir Roudakov, Zachary Hickson

    November 25, 2024 — Our local Aussie WordPress communities copped a fair bashing during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been slow to recover.

    Recent upsets in the WordPress community haven’t helped either.

    Our panel will discuss ways to reinvigorate and rebuild local communities to their pre-pandemic state – if possible!