May 7, 2016 — Pippin is a prolific plugin developer and founder of several successful commercial WordPress plugin projects. This session will have a Q&A style format where the audience can ask any question related to plugin development, the WordPress.org plugins directory, selling plugins, building a development team, and anything else related to plugins. Pippin will do his best to answer every question to the best of his ability.

April 24, 2016 — This talk will show you how to set up a WordPress blog using Ansible, an open-source tool that is often used to deploy code and configure servers. We will deploy WordPress (as well some additional software, like Git) to a fresh new server. We will also look at how to version control your codebase with Git and discuss various ways you can bring Git into your workflow. Last, we’ll talk a little bit about Vagrant and how you can test your changes locally before committing them to your master codebase and deploying them on your live site.

The talk will assume basic competency with SSH (you should know how to SSH into a server, install new packages, update your package lists, etc) and a passing familiarity with Git (you should know what it is).

If you are an experienced developer who’s already using Git and Ansible/Chef/Puppet for provisioning, this talk will be too basic for you. If you are a new developer who’s dabbled a bit with version control and/or provisioning software, you’ll walk out of this talk with everything you need to securely deploy WordPress and Git via Ansible. If you’re not a developer, this talk may be a little bit further into the weeds than you’d enjoy going… although if you want to learn more about doing professional software development, there will be plenty of code samples available online and plenty of references to help you get started. If you’re not a developer and you want to come to this talk, try and read over a tutorial on basic SSH and Git and you should be able to follow along too.

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April 21, 2016 — Hans-Helge liebt es, einen guten Entwicklungs-Workflow zu haben. Wenn alles eingerichtet ist und die Arbeit scheint einfach nur so zu flutschen. Doch leider war das bis letztes Jahr bei ihm noch nicht der Fall und so hat er sich aktiv auf die Suche begeben. Bei seiner Suche fand er allerdings keine guten Ressourcen, die wirklich mal von Anfang bis Ende alles gezeigt haben und das möchte er mit diesem Talk nun ändern. Dabei wird er nicht in jegliche Details gehen können, aber für interessierte Entwickler wird er natürlich alle Ressourcen und Links bereit stellen.

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April 10, 2016 — Qui ne s’est jamais retrouvé devant une maquette graphique qui proposait certains composants plutôt difficiles à réaliser avec WordPress, notamment à cause d’une « limitation technique » ? (quelle soit liée à l’outil ou aux connaissances du développeur)

La connaissance technique d’un outil permet au développeur comme au designer de proposer des maquettes graphiques proches du rendu final. C’est une expérience de projet qui permet d’éviter les frustrations aussi bien auprès du client qu’au sein même d’une équipe.

Pour optimiser ces connaissances, il est important d’utiliser les bons outils afin que designers et développeurs échangent et interagissent sans limites (ou presque) pendant la réalisation des maquettes, mais également en phase de recette interne, après le développement.

Nous essayerons en 20 minutes d’apporter notre expérience en agence Web (Alsacréations) mais également au sein d’une startup qui développe des produits de service (WP Media) tout en proposant des outils adaptés.

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January 25, 2016 — Even if you’re not a project manager, you can learn and incorporate some of the important tenets of project management into your projects and client relationships.

January 12, 2016 — All applications with extensions have one big problem on their hands: bad developer citizens. Bad developers do bad things. They write terrible code which breaks the application, frustrates users, gives the software a bad name, and ultimately drives users to other technologies.

In this talk Chad highlights examples of common, and rare, developer mistakes. You will learn how to be a good developer citizen and avoid the mistakes which earn you the title of being a bad developer.

You will be able to write cleaner PHP and Javascript, and write proper CSS which will make Front End Developers appreciate you.

Come live at peace with WordPress, satisfy your users, and draw more implementors to your products.

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January 10, 2016 — A good proportion of web design today descends from print/graphic design and these influences are becoming even more prevalent. Typography for the web is now all the rage especially as we are (finally) able to use different fonts other than the tried and tested workhorses Arial, Verdana & Georgia. Therefore, solid knowledge of typography basics should really be a must for every internet professional today. Learn how to design a web page with type and impress your fellow designers.

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January 7, 2016 — You love WordPress, and if you are not already making a nice living with it, why not? The WordPress economy is expanding and more people are becoming involved in all aspects around WordPress, whether it be freelancing and entrepreneurship, blogging and content creation, search engine optimization, social media and marketing, developing plugins and themes, designing sites, User Interface, Maintenance, User Experience, Executives, Project Managers, Teachers, Presenters, and on… all working with WordPress in some capacity. This light-hearted session will break down several different types of popular positions and some of the requirements to do that job, which traits work best with which titles, and how you can begin to find your dream WordPress job.

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January 5, 2016 — An excellent topic for developers using WordPress for the first time. Also suitable for people building a website for the first time. This is a case study of a first-time WordPress development project for the website defeatharper.ca. My talk will outline how the ideas behind the site evolved as the requirements changed and the environment it was designed to play in kept shifting. How did we manage the change? How do you keep forward progress in development?

This was my first “real” WordPress project as a developer. I will be sharing my trials and tribulations in trying to get WordPress to “act like a proper CMS”, and then my ultimate insights into the “WordPress Way” of doing things. I have mixed feelings about the two major plugins we used, and will share those findings with you as well.

January 5, 2016 — WordPress developers have been refining their development workflows and toolkits for almost 12 years now. As game changing server technologies like Facebook’s HHVM start to creep into the WordPress hosting space — WP Engine, Pagely & Kinsta all offer HHVM-ready plans — those workflows need to be expanded.
I’ll be introducing you to a new Vagrant-based WordPress development environment (HGV) that includes debugging and profiling tools and allows you to test your code in both PHP & HHVM environments.
vIf you’re interested in attending this talk, a passing familiarity with the command line helps, but isn’t a hard requirement.