December 12, 2015 — 10up open sourced their WordPress Best Practices (PHP, JavaScript, tools, and workflows) in late 2014. As the Director of Engineering at 10up, I drove this project and am the lead contributor to the docs. These Best Practices allow developers to build sites that scale, perform, and are secure one sites receiving millions of page views per day. They also standardize development practices in such a way that facilitates team collaboration. This talk will highlight some important parts of the Best Practices and reveal some valuable tips about how we (10up) engineer some of the most complex and most viewed WordPress sites in the world.

December 2, 2015 — PHP 7 とは、今秋リリースを目指して、現在開発が進んでいる次期メジャーバージョンの PHP です。
12 年ぶりのメジャーバージョンアップとなる PHP 7 では、数々の新機能や変更が加えられています。
本セッションでは、PHP 7 の基本的な変更点について解説を行い、さらに、WordPress を PHP 7 で動かした際の影響などを検証していきます。
次世代の PHP である PHP 7 を一足先に触れてみましょう。

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November 13, 2015 — Sviluppo guidato dai test in ambiente WordPress. La prima parte della frase fa aggrottare la fronte in condizioni normali: in ambiente WordPress assume un che di mistico ed irraggiungibile. Non è così.

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September 26, 2015 — Ova demonstracija pokazuje kako od nule napraviti optimizovano razvojno okruženje na svim platformama, sa primarnim fokusom na PHP i WordPress. Takođe pokazuje kako lako integrisati alate poput xDebug, XHProf i Blackfire za debugovanje i optimizaciju samih aplikacija. Prolazi se kroz teme razvoja aplikacije na više PHP instalacija paralelno (5.2, 5.6 i HHVM) i menadžmenta okruženja koristeći WP-CLI.

September 20, 2015 — This talk introduces a important things to know about learning PHP as it relates to WordPress. The talk covers coding standards, best practices and important concepts in both PHP and WordPress that new and intermediate developers will find helpful.

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September 17, 2015 — The art of debugging code requires a good understanding of the codebase and logical deduction skills. A good debugging tool is like a code mentor that can walk you through the code and help you better understand what is going on, but the deductive reasoning is still up to you. In this session, you will learn how to use Xdebug, a PHP debugging tool to.

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July 12, 2015 — PHP 7 is right around the corner, aimed to be released before the end of 2015. With the previous major release of PHP having happened more than a decade ago, it’s an exciting milestone in PHP’s history, that promises to bring both far-reaching performance boosts for real world workloads and a host of new features. In the keynote, Zeev shares the evolution of PHP’s major versions, the behind-the-scenes story of how PHP 7 came to be and its key benefits and features.

May 27, 2015 — With new PHP versions being released more often it’s clear that things are changing rapidly. This session is all about the changes introduced in recent versions of PHP, and what that means for PHP projects everywhere – including yours. There will be practical examples of the shiny new features, advice on finding hosting and safely upgrading your existing codebases, and news about the performance improvements you can expect as you move between the versions. After this talk, you’ll know what’s been introduced in recent PHP versions and how to make sure your code will be awesome wherever it goes!

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March 23, 2015 — This talk covers the theories and functions dealing with validating input and sanitizing output. It starts at the very basic, and wind up with some discussion of the trickier parts of how different kinds of data should be filtered.

March 10, 2015 — When there is an issue with your database, WordPress shows a very simple message, on a simple white screen: “Error establishing a database connection”. In this presentation, Steve Bruner shows how you can easily theme this page, using the db-error.php file, so your visitors are not shocked when they see this message.