November 14, 2014 — This is a talk about learning fast, getting the best out of your programming skills and delivering results with WordPress and it’s intended for web developers who need to face the unknown and solve problems yesterday. Sounds familiar?

November 6, 2014 — Using Ajax and JavaScript in WordPress plugins. JavaScript is an incredibly powerful tool to make your website and or web app more powerful and interactive. See the full power of integrating right into your WordPress with wp_ajax and taking advantage of client side scripting.

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November 3, 2014 — Backbone is the foundation of several recent user-facing features in WordPress. This talk will explore how to leverage WordPress’ powerful Backbone view management tools to craft maintainable, modular UI for your plugin or theme.

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October 5, 2014 — David and Michael delve into some advance concepts surrounding WordPress themes and development. Showing attendees how to craft custom WordPress Child Themes and even walk you through how to add HTML Video elements straight into a custom comments section.

September 25, 2014 — One of my favorite WordPress releases is 3.5, when Daryl Koopersmith banged out umpteen lines of JS to gives us the new Media experience. It was a game-changer for the admin interface experience, and will echo in WP eternity. A utilitarian fill-out-form-and-submit-page will (probably) never go away. But JavaScript (with an MV* framework) is key to building user interfaces to deal with complex data in user friendly ways. Let’s go there.

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 3, 2014 — Backbone.js and Underscore.js are exciting additions that allow more scalable Javascript creation, both on the front and back end of the system. Along with these great tools came some other, smaller utilities and helpers that make the life of a WordPress Javascript developer just a bit easier.

So let’s explore just some of the hidden wonders in the wp object: wp.ajax, wp.template, wp.shortcode, and wp.html.

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September 2, 2014 — When we make it easier for users who face vision or mobility challenges to use websites, we make them easier for everyone to use. From larger hit areas to clear indications of state we’ll cover a few simple things we can start and stop doing with CSS to make websites faster to navigate with a keyboard, easier to use with a course pointer, and understandable without visual formatting.

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August 21, 2014 — De websites som trækker priser hos Webby, Creative Circle, The FWA og Awwwards, har de én ting til fælles: De bruger JavaScript for at gøre brugeroplevelsen flydende, hurtig og interaktiv. Jeg har udviklet flere prisvindende websites, som bruger en stor mængde JavaScript. På de 40 minutter vil vi kigge på nogle af mine cases, og hvordan jeg bruger JavaScript i mine WordPress-løsninger. Jeg vil også gennemgå, hvilke værktøjer jeg bruger, til at holde min kode skalerbar, overskuelig og sørge for, at performance er i top. Selv om oplæggets indhold er komplekst, vil jeg så vidt muligt holde mig til koncepter og eksempler, frem for at dykke ned i koden, så alle med basal forståelse for udvikling af WordPress-temaer kan være med. Er der efterfølgende spørgsmål, så fang mig i pausen efter mit oplæg, og jeg vil glædeligt uddybe den måde, jeg arbejder på.

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August 21, 2014 — En demonstration af hvordan man kan lave en webside med WordPress-indhold, der opdateres/hentes ved hjælp af Ajax og Javascript – dvs. uden at hele siden skal genindlæses når indholdet ændres. Indlægget er beregnet på personer med nogen erfaring i at lave temaer og/eller plugins til WordPress.

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