October 3, 2020 — This talk explains the importance and advantages of using a local development environment. The examples in the talk happen on (Apple) macOS, but the talk also includes discussion about similar local environments for Linux and Windows. Learn about tools and how to use a local environment in your development workflow.

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October 31, 2016 — “Docker this, Docker that!” It seems like your nerd friend won’t shut up about this whole nautical technology. And he can be a real jerk about it, but he can sure spin up a local WordPress site faster than I can.

In this hands-on session, you will learn how easy Docker can be, and why it will quickly become your favorite local WordPress development environment. Whether you are a WordPress site designer, manager, or developer this session is for you.

Learn how to replace your LAMP or MAMP stacks with Docker.

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December 12, 2015 — How to deploy and manage your own WordPress hosts using Ansible, from local virtual machines for development to single host instances to multi-host stacks that scale all using the same tools. Ansible allows us to build on the best practices of others as well as inventing our own to create reproducible environments for local development, private staging, and public instances.

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