Slides from the October 27th, 2014 presentation. Join the developers of digitaltrends.com (Richard Benjamin and Brandon Clark) as we share the trials and tribulations of refactoring one of the web's largest WordPress sites. Back in January we started a secret internal project humorously dubbed "Fluffy Bunny". The goal was to overhaul digitaltrends.com and transform it into something modern that … Continue reading Developer: “Fluffy Bunny”, the story of refactoring Digital Trends
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Two Meetups for July: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs and Expert Q&A
We have two awesome meetups scheduled for July. But first, an important announcement! We're running a member survey and want to hear your voice. It's short and sweet, and will help us as we plan for the upcoming year. Take the member survey. And now, back to our regularly scheduled content... Developer: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs - … Continue reading Two Meetups for July: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs and Expert Q&A
Unit Testing Hack Day Recap
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
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…
Master the Rewrite API Recap
Last night, the Developer Meetup welcomed Daniel Bachhuber (@danielbachhuber), code wranger for WordPress.com VIP, to talk the group through WordPress' Rewrite API. Daniel started out asking the room how many thought the rewrite API was a deep, dark, mysterious thing. Many agreed with that, no one thought it was easy. One of the first tools … Continue reading Master the Rewrite API Recap
“WP E-Commerce, I Hate You with the Fire of a Thousand Suns” Recap
Last night, the Developer Meetup welcomed Justin Sainton (@js_zao), lead developer for WP E-Commerce, to discuss their ongoing efforts to improve the codebase and innovate with their feature set. Notes by Faddah and Daniel Inspiration for the talk name was Jane Wells' tweet "Wp e-commerce, I hate you with the fire of a thousand suns" … Continue reading “WP E-Commerce, I Hate You with the Fire of a Thousand Suns” Recap
First Developer Meetup Recap
Monday night marked our first ever Developer Meetup! Just under thirty people spent a couple hours meeting one another, drinking beer, and sharing their favorite "I learned this the hard way" stories: Anonymous functions were introduced in PHP 5.3. wp_cache functions can be used to reduced page load time. Ensure your new public theme uses … Continue reading First Developer Meetup Recap
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