October 28, 2014 — In a distributed working environment with employees spanning multiple countries, it’s very important to get everyone using the same tools for stable development and deployment. In this presentation, Brando Dove walks through the vagrant provisioning process, 3rd party services, and home grown tools that are successful with enterprise clients.

October 21, 2014 — As nearly one in four websites is powered by WordPress, there is an amazing responsibility to maintain quality control standards before launching your site. Southern Web’s Drew Barton will share in rapid-fire more than 30 tips that should be included in every WordPress site launch checklist. In order to provide security and maintain quality, these WordPress must-dos will help ensure you and your visitors will have a strong impression of WordPress as a blog, as a CMS and as a development platform.

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October 7, 2014 — Norcross came over from Tampa to talk plugins, and how he views the ecosystem surrounding them. Check out the video for a freeform talk, without slides or guides, as he shares a lot of great advice for prospective plugin developers.

After his solo talk, Norcross joins Adam Soucie and David Parsons, moderated by David Yarde, for a discussion about plugins. They talk development theory, disruptive industries, suggestions for useful plugins, how to determine if a plugin is good and more.

September 17, 2014 — From submodule git to browser, from staging to production. Plugins, frameworks (php and js), drop-ins and how everything connects in Dream Production code.

September 11, 2014 — Angular is a MVC javascript library that allows a developer to do some pretty cool things without much effort. While some of this power comes at a cost, the technology can be a great tool for certain projects.

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September 10, 2014 — В этом докладе Евгений расскажет о факторах, влияющих на сложность построения больших WordPress сайтов и о том, как не позволить этим факторам портить нам нервы, кушать бюджет проекта и сдвигать сроки.

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September 3, 2014 — В этом докладе Владимир постарается во всех подробностях раскрыть тему планировщика задач WordPress (Cron API). Он расскажет о том как WordPress выполняет запланированные задачи, как устроен этот механизм внутри, о возможных проблемах и вариантах их решения, а также о плагинах, которые могут сделать работу с планировщиком удобнее.

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September 2, 2014 — В этом докладе Константин расскажет о масштабировании и отказоустойчивости WordPress. Он расскажет как перейти с простого виртуального хостинга на полноценную многосерверную архитектуру, а также даст несколько советов по работе с WordPress под высокой нагрузкой.

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August 28, 2014 — Доклад посвящен малоизвестным классам и функциям в ядре WordPress, которые могут здорово облегчить жизнь программиста, и позволят по-новому взглянуть на процесс разработки.

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August 27, 2014 — What happens when you want to tell a story about your WordPress experience but you don’t have a place to code that WordPress plugin or theme you’ve always wanted? We all know how expensive a VPS can be. What if I told you there is such a place where stories are told everyday by a wonderful developer community and you could tell your story in just seconds. You could code your WordPress themes and plugins, in the cloud, with your developer friends and then share that story with everyone.

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