Approx 8:30 a.m. Steven and I arrived to the conference after many turns on Bay St. Savannah is much too pretty to not get lost in.
8:45 a.m. We’re hanging out downstairs waiting on coffee. I grabbed a tea (Passion) and people watch!
9:00 a.m. The “Keynote” begins. Co-Founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg (ma.tt) is talking. The projector doesn’t seem to be working, but he’s carrying the crowd very well.
Sites to check out:
Brazilian Ministry of culture
Kanye West (This one raised my eyebrows)
Express and Star – Newspaper
Wired.com
Wall street Journal Magazine
42Below (vodka)
Stop Design
Kodingen (web hosted IDE)
clouds365
9:45 a.m. We move downstairs to start the Developer track were the next speaker is Shayne Sanderson (9seeds.com, @shaynesanderson)
Shayne gave us a tutorial on PHP/CSS
10:13 a.m. Mark Jaquith - Writing your first Word Press plugin
Author URI: http://coveredwebservices.com/
http://txfx.net/s/3q
10:45 a.m. WordPress 3.0 (2010) – Matt Thomas
Design for today’s browsers
**(Make font size in apps at 16px)**
Use colors to make things easier to read
11:15 a.m. Sara Cannon – Customizing Themes/Child Themes
@saracannon
http://themeshaper.com/modify-wordpress-themes/
http://codex.wordpress.org/child_themes
11:55 a.m. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Themes (Matt Mullenweg – Cofounder)
Facebook.com/matt.mullenweg
@photomatt
Noon – We break for lunch. Bar-B-Q, turnips, mac & cheese and beans with a few grapes. Being a nerd is the good life.
1:30 p.m. Automating Your Plugins with WP-Cron
Dan Cannon Nicasio Design @nicasiodesign
Using Cron jobs to handle schedules
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
WebCron.org (site will ping the site for you)
2:00 p.m. Contributing to WordPress
Andrew Nacin @nacin
2:30 p.m. Daryl Koopersmith on jQuery
@darylkoop
darylkoop.com
We got a pretty nice bag of swag too, my first! I’ll be sporting my wordpress t-shirt tomorrow for the ride home, with pictures to follow. All in all, I had a great time at my first developer conference. Special thanks to my buddy Steven Miller, the yoda of social media (@agentsmiller) for inviting me down! I’ll definitely be back next year.
