June 24, 2016 — Web application developers often can feel stuck in a rut when developing a new application. There are various basics that every app needs, user management, data entry, etc. WordPress solves all these challenges, and provides an extensible way to record, save and display data. With the introduction of the WP Rest API, WordPress has become an ever more desirable Web Application Platform.

At my full-time job we are in the process of converting our college website to WordPress, and we are building a way to distribute News and Events throughout our WordPress Multi-Site Network, as well as third-party systems. I’ll share the progress we’ve made thus far, as well as plans for future growth. I’ll also share why we decided to build this way, and how other apps could be developed similarly.

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June 24, 2016 — Let’s have a discussion about things we can do to make our themes and plugins a pleasure to work with.

June 24, 2016 — WordPress has an origin story, two people in different countries, looking to improve their open source blogging software, that evolved into thousands of people working on or with that software. But who we are, humans, our evolution has been driven by our ability to tell increasingly complex stories.

Storytelling is not just at the root of who we are — it is who we are.

In this talk we will remind ourselves of what a story is. Once we are clear on the difference between a story and a statement, we will explore what understanding our stories means for us, as bloggers, business people and developers working in an open source ecosystem.

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June 24, 2016 — The best and worst part about our chosen vocation is that there’s an endless amount of stuff to see, learn, and try and nowhere near enough time in which to do it. In an industry where “the new hotness” changes every week, what hope does a developer have of keeping up?

This talk focuses on the professional development of a professional developer. How do we continue to grow as professionals without getting totally overwhelmed with information? We’ll touch on the topics of stress, education, humility, and more.

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June 21, 2016 — So you have created a plugin or a theme for WordPress. Awesome! It doesn’t stop there. We will discuss why great support matters and give you simple ways to get a reputation for excellent support without increasing your time or effort.

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June 5, 2016 — Why switching to WordPress Coding Standards will make you a better developer by Dave Green

WordPress Coding Standards have been around for a while, yet many developers don’t write code with them, let alone know they exist. This was the case with me until September 2015 when I made the switch, and now I wish I’d dived in earlier! In this talk I’ll explain what they are, how they will help you write better, cleaner and more secure PHP code and why you should be using them for all WordPress projects.

See the slides for Dave Green’s Talk Why Switching WordPress Coding Standards will make you a better Developer

Be a better developer with code review by Philip John

Code review may sound boring – as developers we want to *write* code, not read someone else’s. But if there’s one thing we must do as developers it’s continually learn, and code review is one of the best ways to do that. This talk will help you improve as a developer by talking about code review, what it is, and how it can improve the security, scalability and readability of your code.

Building a SaaS product in WordPress by Elliot Taylor

Last year Elliot put his focus from his agency business onto developing his product business YoGrow. The talk will discuss some of the benefits of moving to a product business and how YoGrow uses WordPress and WooCommerce as a foundation.

May 30, 2016 — Plugin/Theme Devs: Internationalisation for WordPress developers – the right way to prepare your themes and plugins for translation
with John Blackbourn, WordPress core developer, WordPress 4.1 release lead and Senior WordPress Engineer at Human Made

May 16, 2016 — J’ai vraiment eu le sentiment de progresser dans ma pratique dès le moment où je me suis mis à lire le code source de WordPress.
Avant, je me référais uniquement au codex – et autres sites tels wpseek – pour comprendre des fonctions ou des filtres, mais ces ressources sont loin d’être complètes… pire : elles ne permettent de trouver des informations que sur ce que l’on cherche.

Aucun risque donc de découvrir des fonctions/hooks au hasard… alors que ceux-ci pourraient nous être très utiles dans nos développements.

Que l’on soit développeur ou pas, la lecture du code source de WP ou de ses plugins permet d’évoluer dans notre compréhension du CMS.

Bien sûr nous n’allons pas tout lire, mais je vous expliquerai comment trouver les fichiers qui vous intéressent, et je vous suggérerai quelques fichiers qui sont de bonnes entrées en matière…

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May 14, 2016 — Jetpack est une extension utilisée sur un très grand nombre de sites
WordPress, mais saviez-vous que Jetpack peut aussi rendre votre vie de
développeur un peu plus simple lors de la réalisation de projets ?

Je vous ferai découvrir quelques fonctionnalités cachées de Jetpack,
et vous expliquerai comment les utiliser dans votre code pour gagner
du temps lors de la création d’un nouveau site.

Je serai aussi ravi de répondre à vos questions sur Jetpack.

Prérequis : cette session vous sera utile si vous connaissez déjà
Jetpack, et si vous avez déjà créé des extensions et / ou thèmes.

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May 12, 2016 — Nikolay’s talk will explain some basic problems with more complicated front-end applications, and how if we make dealing with change easier and if we have readily available components, our lives will be better.

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