Yesterday, even though it was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, 15 of us gathered to level up our Unit Testing skills at the first PDXWP Hack Day. After a couple of hours getting learned, we managed to ship: Tests for wp_cache_init() and wp_cache_replace(). Props Zack Tollman. Unit tests for the Widgets API. Props Corey McKrill and Robert … Continue reading Unit Testing Hack Day Recap
Unit Test Hack Day Prep
On Saturday, April 27th, PDXWP is hosting a hack day focusing on unit testing. Max Cutler, who has contributed significantly to WordPress core unit tests, will be teaching the group about unit testing. WordPress core unit tests are written using PHPUnit. While PHPUnit is not the only unit testing framework for PHP, it is what … Continue reading Unit Test Hack Day Prep
The Power of WordPress’ Roles and Capabilities Recap
http://vimeo.com/64430739 Monday night brought Erick Hitter, Team Custom Lead at Automattic, to speak to just under 40 people in developer meetup about the Power of WordPress' Roles and Capabilities. His presentation took two parts, which Erick has also conveniently posted for your reviewing pleasure: The Power of WordPress’ Roles and Capabilities Understanding map_meta_cap Special thanks to Luke … Continue reading The Power of WordPress’ Roles and Capabilities Recap
Three Meetups for April: Roles and Capabilities, Unit Testing and What’s Coming in WordPress 3.6
This coming month we have two three great meetups scheduled. The Power of WordPress’ Roles and Capabilities Date & Time: Monday, April 15th at 6:30 pm WordPress’ roles seem simple enough on the surface, but behind the Administrator, Editor, and the other default roles is a powerful system that can be customized extensively. For April's PDXWP … Continue reading Three Meetups for April: Roles and Capabilities, Unit Testing and What’s Coming in WordPress 3.6
WordPress Portland – MemberMouse Needs a Customer Support Specialist!
This is a guest post from Eric Turnnessen, Founder of MemberMouse. If you’d like to make an announcement to the group, let us know. MemberMouse is a premium WordPress membership plugin that allows our customers to accept payments, manage customers, deliver premium content in a password protected member's area, track critical business metrics and more. … Continue reading WordPress Portland – MemberMouse Needs a Customer Support Specialist!
April 3rd: Hang Out With 10up in Portland!
Hey Portland WordPressers! Almost the entire 10up team is coming into Portland this week for an internal developer summit. As part of our schedule, we're having a community social over at Green Dragon on Wednesday, April 3rd starting at 7 pm. We'd love to buy you a beer, hang out and talk WordPress and web … Continue reading April 3rd: Hang Out With 10up in Portland!
Recap It’s Tool Time 4 Tools You Cannot…
Recap: It's Tool Time - 4 Tools You Cannot Live Without At the latest PDXWP dev meetup, we had four speakers discuss four powerful development tools as part of "It's Tool Time: 4 Tools You Cannot Live Without". We had roughly 45 people attend the meetup, which is our best attended dev meetup to date. … Continue reading Recap It’s Tool Time 4 Tools You Cannot…
‘The Fundamentals of Content Strategy’ Presentation Recap
tl;dr The presenter at the Feb 25th Portland WordPress Users Meetup, Jim Woolfrey (@informative) demonstrated 'The Fundamentals of Content Strategy.' He covered content strategy from a seller, marketer and agency perspective. During the presentation we saw an actual content strategy brief and the process Jim uses to build a strategy plan. The Fundamentals of Content Strategy Jim introduced … Continue reading ‘The Fundamentals of Content Strategy’ Presentation Recap
Vagrant Your New Best Friend Recap Jeremy…
"Vagrant: Your New Best Friend" Recap Jeremy Felt recently talked to the PDXWP dev meetup group about Vagrant. This was our biggest dev meetup to date with approximately 40 people showing up. Moreover, approximately 2/3 of the group was new to the meetup. Jeremy graciously shared his notes from the talk for those who were … Continue reading Vagrant Your New Best Friend Recap Jeremy…
“You Want Me to Design What?” Recap
Monday night the user group meetup welcomed Kory McDow, owner and designer at Certified Square, to talk about HTML, CSS, and what the heck to do with them on the web. We had almost 70 people show up from our rough head count. One of the largest crowds yet, which was awesome! Kory started out by … Continue reading “You Want Me to Design What?” Recap
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