August 15, 2016 — Developers and designers work together on a daily basis to bring custom WordPress builds to life, but sometimes the process can be a bumpy ride! Designers and developers both approach a site design and build from very different angles and this can cause issues. I’ll draw on my own experience of the good, the bad and the ugly to outline some ways that designers and developers can adapt their workflows to work more effectively together.

July 29, 2016 — WordPressの開発にはPHPが使われています。そのため、WordPressを使いこなそうとするとどうしてもPHPを知る必要が出てきます。本セッションでは、ここ数年のPHPエンジニアのトレンドを、国内で開催されたPHPカンファレンスから見ていきつつ、それらの技術がWordPressでどのように活かせるのかにブレークダウンして紹介していきたいと思います。エンジニア向けの勉強会は難しそう、と、ふだん距離を置いていた人も、この機会にPHP技術のおいしいとこ、まとめて持ち帰りませんか。

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July 5, 2016 — The Unconference was a unique opportunity to get on stage and share your stories and experiences with WCEU attendees!

July 4, 2016 — PHP 7 was released in December, with a hefty speed boost and new features to improve the quality of your code. I’ll be giving an overview of the key features and how you can take advantage of them in WordPress, and closing with some insights into what might be in PHP 7.1.

July 4, 2016 — Words like “unit testing,” “acceptance testing” and “test-driven development” are slowly becoming part of the WordPress development landscape. Let’s understand some of those buzz-words building a catapult.

July 4, 2016 — Advertising can be enjoyable, entertaining, moving and even beautiful. Why is it such an awful experience online?

This talk addresses these questions: Can we make ads better so we don’t have to hate them? Can developers learn to speak the language ad-ops uses?

July 4, 2016 — I will cover different tools for faster and easier development of WordPress projects from the local set up to acceptance testing. The focus is on the improvements that we all can do in our daily development work that can help us write cleaner code, deploy it safely on remote servers, test it and also to be able to include easier new people in our teams and onboard them.

July 3, 2016 — How to grow a virtual company with dozens of remote employees and freelancers. The talk will focus on hiring opportunities, delegating activities, identifying key roles for a company and finding the right talent. Once the team is sorted out, we’ll cover project management strategies and tricks, online collaboration (both for code and infrastructure, project management and communication), employee retention, and other key challenges that remote teams struggle with.

July 3, 2016 — How to integrate Composer – PHP package manager – into process of developing WordPress websites: where to start, what tools could be used, what changes in workflow should be made. People would get practical advice on how to start with configuration examples and common problems solution. That’s the real-world case that my team and I use on everyday basis.

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July 3, 2016 — Have you ever compared yourself to other designers / developers and felt like you’re not in their league?

Do you write code, but wouldn’t dare to call yourself a developer?

Do you shy away from contributing or publishing your code / designs / projects openly, because you’re worried you’re not good enough?

At WordCamps, are you afraid to ask “stupid” questions or admit if you don’t understand something?

Yes?!

Congrats, you’re suffering from Impostor Syndrome.

Most of us do, but not many talk about it!

I’d like to share my struggles with it and how I’m overcoming it. And so can you!

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