April 20, 2016 — Designers and developers are both required to build world-class websites, but sometimes it can feel like a struggle for us to work together in a truly collaborative way. In this session, we’ll share a variety of strategies to bridge the gap between design and development ranging from optimizing workflow between designers and developers with unique skillsets; replacing responsive mockups with side-by-side collaboration; creating clean, grid-based, developer-friendly design files; and developing new layouts and features in a way that respects the original design. We’ll cover these approaches and more as we share the process we use to (happily!) work together as a designer/developer team.

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April 20, 2016 — Learn how to build a simple CSS system to represent the brand characteristics in the product’s core elements.

March 5, 2016 — Utilizzo di DesktopServer by ServerPress e BackupBuddy per creare un efficiente workflow di sviluppo per WordPress.

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February 7, 2016 — What is a test? Why should one test? Who should test? What, when, and how should be tested? These questions and more are to be answered. Primarily, this session is aimed at developers. Designers, and (technical) project leads and managers, however, are addressed as well, because they also take a part in the development process, and hence testing.

While the talk will be given in German, the slides are in English. So even if you’re not a German native speaker, you should be able to follow.

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February 7, 2016 — Die Abwehr von Angriffen auf WordPress beginnt nicht erst nachdem die Installation erfolgt und die Seite online ist. Schon bei der Entwicklung von Themes und Plugins können Entwickler dazu beitragen ihre Produkte sicherer zu gestalten. Wir werfen einen Blick auf mögliche Angriffsvektoren und die Möglichkeiten, die WordPress von Haus aus bietet um diese abzusichern.

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February 7, 2016 — After this session you will share my believe that hooks are the reason that WordPress is the number one cms in the world. You will know how to use them in order to extend core, plugins and themes and learn some smart tricks which you can use when adding hooks to your own code.

Content in details:

* why bother with hooks?
* where hooks are used
* elements of hook routines
* basic functions and attributes
* how core itself uses hooks
* debugging hooks

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February 7, 2016 — Twig ist eine Template-Engine für PHP, die schon in vielen Open-Source-Projekten eingesetzt wird. Diese Session wird erklären wie man Twig in WordPress-Themes nutzen kann und welche Vorteile dies mit sich bringt.

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February 4, 2016 — This session gives an introduction to how to test WordPress plugins with unit tests, focusing on the advantages it provides. We’ll have a look together at the main steps to set up a first test case.

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February 4, 2016 — As a plugin developer, you should write code that plays well with other plugins. When a plugin is not initialized in an optimal way, it can be hard or even impossible for other plugins, to interact with it. In this lightning talk I would like to give you some tips on how to do it right in your plugins, which can also decrease the number of service requests.

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January 25, 2016 — Writing multisite compatible themes and plugins will help you becoming a better developer and reducing the amount of support. In this session I will talk about the restrictions and possibilities, what to watch out for and what we can learn from the core code.

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