Sara Cannon‘s talk on responsive web design (resizing the page to suit different client devices) was spot on. Her slides are below, but she also recommends this A List Apart article on the matter, as well as Less Framework and 1140 CSS Grid (especially as alternatives to 960.gs). Responsive Web Design – WordCamp San Francisco View [...]
August 23, 2011
Estelle Weyl on CSS3 At WCSF
August 16, 2011
DoubleHappy Game Creator
DoubleHappy, by Instinct, the same folks who make the GetShopped ecommerce plugin for WordPress, is an interesting game creation tool. All the game elements are stored in WordPress using custom post types and other advanced features, but it was their demo of the HTML5 editor that most amazed me. The games still play in Adobe [...]
November 14, 2009
My WordCamp NYC Talks
Authentication Hacks My first talk was on User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems, all about integrating WP with LDAP/AD/CAS and other directory authentication schemes, as well as the hacks I did to make that integration bi-directional and deliver new user features. My slides are online (.MOV / .PDF), and you can read earlier blog [...]
May 31, 2009
Systems Wrangling Session At WordCamp Developer Day
What is the current status of web servers…Is Apache 2.x “fast enough?” Automattic uses Lightspeed (for PHP), nginx (for static content), and Apache (for media uploads). For WordPress-generated content, all server options are approximately the same speed. What about APC? Automattic uses beta versions of APC, and provides a 3-5x performance increase. It’s tied closely [...]
May 30, 2009
Google’s Matt Cutts On Building Better Sites With WordPress
90% of WordPress blogs he sees are spam. But for those who aren’t spammers and want to do better in Google…. “WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues…WordPress takes care of 80-90% of SEO.” Still, he recommends a few extra plugins: Akismet — reduce spam comments Cookies for Comments — reduce spam comments FeedBurner [...]
February 1, 2009
WordCamp Higher Ed, Northeast
It’s not WordCamp Paris (running on 7 February), but WordCamp Edu Northeast is today. I’m there to meet up with fellow WordPressies and talk about extending WordPress with Holladay Penick and Dave Lester. Squeezing the three of us into a single time slot requires quite a bit of cutting, especially if we hope to have [...]
August 28, 2008
2.6 Million Self-Hosted WordPress Sites And Counting
The huge problem with open source software is that there are no sales numbers to show how many people are using it. We know that WordPress.com hosts over three million blogs. We know EduBlogs powers nearly 200,000. But how many sites are hosted using the original, downloadable, self-installed and managed version of WordPress? Now, the [...]
August 16, 2008
Global Voices On WordPress
I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online, a community generated global group news blog, until Jeremy Clarke spoke of it at WordCamp. And I didn’t think the site, with it’s do-good premise, worked until I actually explored it for a while. But, well, it’s a bit fascinating. Global Voices grew out of a one-day conference [...]
August 16, 2008
Quercus PHP To Java Compiler vs. WordPress
Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist and a lead developer for Caucho Technology, the developers of the Quercus PHP to Java compiler. The idea, I guess, is to write in PHP, deploy in Java, which some people say is better supported by the “enterprise.” Ong claims 26% performance improvement over Apache + mod_php + APC. [...]
August 16, 2008
Chris Lea On Nginx And WordPress
“Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache.” –Chris Lea. Why? No forking. No loading of unnecessary components. Fast CGI. And to prove it’s not as complex as you might think, he’s [...]
August 16, 2008
Mark Jaquith On WordPress Security For Plugin Developers
I’ve been pretty aware of the risks of SQL injection and am militant about keeping my database interactions clean. Mark Jaquith today reminded me about the need to make sure my browser output is filtered through clean_url(), sanitize_url(), and attribute_escape(). Furthermore, we all need to remember current_user_can(), check_admin_referer(), and nonces.
August 16, 2008
Aaron Brazell On Blog Search And Findability
Aaron Brazell at WordCamp is talking about search and finability “not SEO.” Riffing on Ambient Findability, he asks: Can people find your blog? Can people find their way around your blog? Can people find your content and services despite your blog? Remember: Your blog serves as a nexus for information about you. You serve as [...]
July 22, 2007
Liz Danzico on WordPress Usability
Liz Danzico of Happy Cog Studios spoke today about her consulting with Automattic on the design of the WordPress admin interface. As with so many of the presentation today, I’m really hoping the slides will be published soon, as there are some great ideas coming out. Liz spent a lot of time watching WordPress users [...]
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