June 28, 2015 — You’ve been meaning to start using Sass in your projects, right? But it looks hard…is it really worth figuring out? Yes, yes it is! Sass is “CSS with superpowers” and a wonderful entry point into larger development concepts and best practices. We’ll talk about what Sass is, how to get started, and identify some key features you can apply to your own work.

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June 25, 2015 — In seinem Vortrag zeigt Bernhard Kau eine Einführung in die Arbeitsweise von CSS-Präprozessoren. Am Beispiel von SASS werden Funktionen gezeigt, die bei der täglichen Arbeit mit CSS helfen können.

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May 26, 2015 — This talk covers the three major conventions for organizing CSS: Object Oriented CSS (OOCS), Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS (SMACSS) and Block Element Modifier (BEM). And discusses similarities, differences and use cases between the schools, as well as general tools that can be used to speed up and clean up the CSS development process.

May 26, 2015 — On vous a convaincu, vous voulez bien faire les choses. Vous ne modifierez pas le code de WordPress, des extensions ou de votre thème. Mieux encore, vous êtes sur WordPress.com et vous ne pouvez tout simplement pas modifier ce code. MAIS… vous aimeriez _tellement_ que la sidebar soit à gauche plutôt qu’à droite (seulement dans les pages, pas dans les articles). Tant qu’à y être, on pourrait pas enlever le texte “Les commentaires sont fermés.”? On peut tout faire ça en CSS, et bien plus encore. À l’aide d’exemples concrets, nous illustrerons comment la puissance des sélecteurs CSS vous permet de modifier pratiquement toute l’apparence de votre site, sans toucher une ligne de PHP ou de HTML.

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May 25, 2015 — This presentation talks about getting out of the Photoshop mindset, embracing the tools that the modern web has provided us in order to streamline our development practises and get real-live sites up and running fast. We’ll start with talking about how to use style tiles to reduce the amount of time spent on mockups, and then we’ll move on to discuss how to leverage available tools in order to quickly get a site running: skeleton themes, CSS precompilers, version control for quick deployment, icon fonts, browser development tools, grids, and CSS frameworks. Whew!

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February 3, 2015 — In this presentation learn how SVG helps make otherwise awkward shapes easy to make, and how to use it to make icons that are more accessible than with any other web-based icon creation technique. You’ll learn how SVG can make customized complex graphics on the fly, create compelling animations and other interactions, and empower some pretty great designerly effects. And end discovering a cornucopia of SVG source materials that are easy to find and even easier to work with.

December 13, 2014 — This presentation goes over some of the core content from my book, Responsive Design with WordPress, which teaches you how to leverage WordPress to get the most out of responsive design, implement best practices, automate important processes, and make your life easier overall.

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December 3, 2014 — Nessa palestra você aprenderá como utilizar o GulpJS para automatizar tarefas corriqueiras no desenvolvimento de temas para WordPress (minify de arquivos JS/CSS, Lint, compilar SASS/LESS/Stylus, deploy com FTP/SSH/Rsync) de uma forma rápida e eficiente, focando na PERFORMANCE.

Assim você terá mais agilidade na codificação e poderá oferecer uma melhor experiência ao usuário final!

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November 17, 2014 — Developing your first plugin can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation assists beginner to intermediate developers in understanding the basics of plugin development by walking through a basic plugin step by step. It goes over hooks, how important they are, how they are used, and what hooks are available to you in WordPress core as well as some good practices to keep your plugin sharp.

November 14, 2014 — Lighting Talks: Unscary Tech
Thinking Inside the Box is 5 minutes that will change the way you think about web content and web design: On the web everything is a box and once you know how to bend those boxes to your will you can do pretty much anything you want.