November 16, 2014 — Have you used WP-CLI before and want to know what makes it so powerful? Or, simply curious about what makes it tick? Join Daniel Bachhuber, WP-CLI’s current maintainer, on a dive into its internals. Learn about the load process, historical design decisions, its libraries, and which pieces you can incorporate to make your commands just as powerful.

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November 13, 2014 — Numbers Used Once (NONCE) are important tools for developers. Many developers however don’t understand what they are or or how to properly use them. This session takes the red pill and dives headfirst into the rabbit hole. When we emerge, you’ll know the tools available to you, both built-in and add-on. Along the way we will stop for tea and discuss Sessions, just because the rabbit hole wasn’t deep enough.

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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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