Several 10up speaking appearances left in August

September is nearly here, but you can still catch 10up engineers at speaking engagements in August.

August 13: Web Engineer Nícholas Andre brings our Best Practices to WordCamp Fortaleza in Brazil;
August 19: Stateside, Director of Engineering Taylor Lovett will rock Nashville’s Music City Code conference with his talk, “WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise;”
August 25: Adam Silverstein will be teaching folks in Asheville, NC how to use Backbone.js with the WordPress REST API at the Craftpeak Collective. In typical “10up gives back” fashion, he is donating all proceeds from the class back to Craftpeak!
August 27: Two 10uppers will present a total of three talks at WordCamp Columbus! Bobby Bryant will explore object creation patterns in JavaScript. Steve Grunwell is leading two sessions: his first will explain how to write first-rate WP-CLI scripts. Steve’s second session presents “The WordPress Way” of understanding WordPress actions and filters.

I’m presenting “Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS” at Front Porch Conference in Austin on Tuesday. Front Porch brings together leading experts in web design and development to share their knowledge. I will present a better way to QA websites—traditionally an inefficient effort requiring manual review of an entire site after each code change—illustrating how PhantomCSS test suites can automatically compare visual differences and flag changes for further review.

10up speaks: one weekend, many locations

Jake Goldman on July 13

July 15-17, you can find #team10up speaking at WordCamp NYC, WPCampus, and WordCamp Lima.

10up at WordCamp Europe 2016

John Ragozzine on June 17

Be sure to catch 10up at WordCamp Europe 2016, taking place June 24-26 in Vienna, Austria.

10up at php[tek] 2016

John Ragozzine on May 17

May 23

php[tek] 2016

Saint Louis

Speaking

Join 10up at php[tek] 2016 on May 23-27 in Saint Louis. We are co-sponsoring the event with our cloud infrastructure partner Joyent, and will be demoing our WordPress Docker composition. Plus, team 10up Senior Web Engineer Steve Grunwell will present two sessions.

In Steve’s first talk, “Professional Development for Professional Developers,” he will show how developers can continue to learn new web development skills without being overwhelmed by an industry characterized by new frameworks and tools cropping up weekly. His second talk, “Building for the PHP Command Line Interface,” covers the characteristics of well-written PHP CLI scripts. Steve will also make the case for writing custom commands, and provide an overview of different command line tools, including WP-CLI, Artisan, and Drush.

John Eckman on May 10

I will be a panelist at Brightcove PLAY 2016 on May 17 in Boston. The panel, CMS Integrations: Best Practices, will discuss integrating the Brightcove Video Cloud with popular CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal. I will review the Brightcove Video Connect plugin, which we developed as Brightcove’s official WordPress development partner, and present the plugin’s roadmap, which we will advance with the open source community; we opened the Github repo to the public this month.

Darshan Sawardekar on March 10 • 1 Comment

We’re thrilled to be a sponsor for WordCamp Mumbai 2016, taking place this weekend (March 12-13). This year, Senior Engineers Joshua Abenazer and Faishal Saiyed will be attending with me. On Sunday, I’m presenting “URLs in WordPress” – a deep dive into understanding, configuring, and customizing the permalink and URL structure to best match a site’s content.

Jake Goldman on March 4

I’m joining an expert panel on “Digital Distribution 2.0” on Tuesday, March 22, hosted by SmartNews and sponsored by Pocket. I will offer business and technical insights gleaned from first-hand experience with Google’s AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News. The event is open to the public.

The First WordCamp US

Doug Stewart on December 1, 2015

Dec 4

WordCamp US

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Attending Speaking

In 2006, the first WordCamp was held in San Francisco–followed by subsequent camps in cities around the country. This weekend, the first WordCamp US will take place: an expansion of the traditional San Francisco conference, now attracting the WordPress community on an even larger scale.

Our team regularly contributes to open source projects and community initiatives, and I am thrilled to be one of seven co-organizers of the inaugural WordCamp US. Hosted in Philadelphia, PA on December 4-6, the conference is a jam packed 3-day event: kicking off with a yoga session right after registration, and moving through the weekend with more than 80 speakers and sessions, including 15-minute “Lightning Talks.” Matt Mullenweg will also present the annual “State of the Word” address: a summary on the current and future outlook of the WordPress project and community. The conference will conclude with Contributor Day: an event for novice and seasoned contributors to give back to the WordPress project, co-organized by colleague and Web Engineer, Drew Jaynes.

10up speaks at WordCamp NYC this weekend

Taylor Lovett on October 28, 2015

10up is thrilled to sponsor WordCamp NYC 2015 this weekend in Brooklyn. This year, Chief Executive Officer John Eckman and I are presenting, with Director of Platform Experience Helen Hou-Sandi in attendance.

In “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch”, I’ll cover the benefits of Elasticsearch and teach attendees how to use ElasticPress: a 10up plugin that integrates WordPress with Elasticsearch, and significantly improves search results, relevancy, ranking, and filtering within WordPress.

John’s presentation, “The Enterprise Disconnect: WordPress and the Complexity of Simplicity”, will cover the challenges of advocating for WordPress in the enterprise, and different perspectives inside and outside the WordPress community. John will propose approaches that preserve the simplicity of WordPress, while better exposing enterprises to powerful solutions which can be built atop the platform.