August 8, 2018 — One of most important things for a team of developers is having a development environment that matches or closely matches the production environment.

Bronson will teach you how to use Chassis and it’s suite of extensions to create a development environment which can be used be everyone on your team so you don’t end up with different developers with different local environments for development.

February 27, 2018 — It’s absolutely possible to do all your PHP programming using a basic text editor, but is it wise? If you work alone (like in a basement) it might make sense to keep things simple by using a text editor and an FTP account to keep your WordPress site updated. But, if your site has a large (code base) or you work in a team, embracing more modern development techniques will help you get more done. In this topic, I will cover some of the most useful tools included in two popular PHP IDEs – Zend Studio/Eclipse and PhpStorm and one popular design IDE Adobe Dreamweaver. Subject matter will include; file management and site navigation, code generation and completion, refactoring, debugging, and integrative source control using Git.

April 14, 2017 — WP-CLI è un ottimo strumento per abbattere i tempi di sviluppo e per automatizzare i task ripetitivi ed è un vero e proprio coltellino svizzero a disposizione dello sviluppatore. In questo talk parlerò di alcuni utilizzi avanzati e di come è possibile comandare i plugin realizzati attraverso WP-CLI.

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February 4, 2017 — Whether you’re working on custom themes or custom plugins, a good development workflow is critical. I would like to walk you through some great ideas to streamline and simplify the process as much as possible.

We will look at starting a brand new project and go from dev environment through to production as well as an existing site being brought to local dev, up to staging and back again.

All the tools, tips, and tricks you need to ensure each and every project runs as smooth as silk.

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December 22, 2016 — Having a good development environment is crucial to pump out good code consistently and efficiently. You will find a multitude of “How To’s” for developing on Mac but not so Much on Windows, even those do not fully utilise all Windows has to offer, like Hyper-V. Let me show you how to build a complete WordPress and Web dev environment, running in a Hyper-V Linux VM on Windows in less than 30 mins.

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November 1, 2016 — This talk will cover the technical challenges and development decisions I made when developing Instant WordPress (IWP) 5.0.

This version runs on OSX and on Windows, unlike previous versions that only ran on Windows. This version wraps an embedded Linux VM with an interface written in Smalltalk and F#.

The Linux VM runs a LAMP stack allowing your WordPress development environment to remain completely independent of your OS.

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August 22, 2016 — “Digital Wallonia is a virtual and physical hub. It embodies the objective of the Wallonian Government to create an excellent digital playground beyond its territory, its actors and its users.
Digital Wallonia est une plateforme virtuelle et physique. Digital Wallonia incarne l’objectif du Gouvernement wallon de faire de la Wallonie une terre d’excellence numérique, à travers son territoire, ses acteurs et ses usages.”

July 28, 2016 — A local development environment is a safe way to practice and test changes to your site without effecting your live site.

Come learn why and how to install a local development environment on both Windows and Macs.

This session is for beginners and we’ll look at using XAMPP and talk about other environments such as MAMP, WAMP, Vagrant and others.

Take aways:

– Why to install a local environment.
– How to install XAMPP.
– What are some of your other choices.

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July 2, 2016 — Tooling in WordPress has advanced rapidly in recent years. Not so long ago we were using basic development environments with zero automation. Times have changed and today we have some amazing tools at our disposal. But which ones should you use? I’ll show you the top tools and how to use them for maximum efficiency.

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April 17, 2016 — Vous êtes intéressé par une solution qui va vous permettre de travailler sur de multiples environnements en simultané et faciliter les déploiements sur ces derniers ?
Alors venez découvrir en quoi GIT est un must-have, comment il permet d’optimiser et de booster son workflow, et indirectement de « sauvegarder » et « sécuriser » ses sites.

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