January 14, 2017 — WordPress Starter Survival Kit for Developers – How to create themes and plugins, tools you need, first steps… Lecture held at 4th WordPress Meetup in Nis, Serbia. Official hashtag #WPNis

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December 28, 2016 — Full stack of useful developer tools from IDE / editor choice and it’s add-ons to acceptance testing of the WordPress project. As a WordPress developer I spend a lot of time writing code and researching for tools that will allow me to automate the simple tasks and be able to focus on the hard ones. Hope sharing my experience will be useful for other developers too.

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September 8, 2016 — Früher oder später kommen wir alle an den Punkt an dem wir neben dem Livesystem noch mindestens ein weiteres System haben, ein lokales Entwicklungssystem oder im besten Fall noch ein Preview System um dem Kunden Änderungen zur Freigabe vorzulegen.

Da kommen diverse Probleme und Fallstricke.

Wie synchronisiere ich die Datanbank, oder muss ich das überhaupt?
Wie halte ich Bilder synchron?
Wie vermeide ich aus Fahrlässigkeit auf dem Livesystem etwas zu testen?
Wie kann ich schnell und komfortabel zwischen den Systemen wechseln?
Was ist mit Updates?

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December 13, 2015 — CSS in itself can be pretty difficult even when it’s just one person writing it on a project that is small in scope, but what happens when things get bigger? What naming conventions scale well? How do you work on it with a large team? What are the considerations needed for an open source project or really any project? What tools should be used? I’m going to be answering these and discussing a few other issues that may spring up when working on complex projects. I’m also going to talk about things that might drive you crazy, but don’t actually make an impact on your project.

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December 8, 2015 — Vagrant, Composer, and Gulp. Oh my. So many tools, how does one sort them all out? This talk will walk you through the tools you can use to create the perfect WordPress development environment, what they’re for, and why they’re important.