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29-04-2011
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WordPress Idioms and Best Practices talk at WordCamp Montreal 2011

 

I’m very excited to announce that I have been accepted as a speaker at WordCamp Montreal this July 9-10, 2011!

My talk, tentatively entitled ”WordPress Development Paradigms, Idiosyncracies and Best Practices” will be targeted at existing programmers and developers who are reasonably new to WordPress and want to jump in with both feet. What makes this different from other talks (or tutorials on the web) is that I want to round up all of the major conceptual hurdles that a new WordPress developer need to overcome in order to make best use of everything the framework provides, in a way that will be durable and sustainable as WordPress continues to evolve.

The idea for this talk came from my own experiences as a programmer of 30+ years (oh man, am I that old?) coming to the WordPress platform for the first time and running into roadblocks, confusion and misconceptions. I often find that learning a new platform is not so much about learning the API, objects or method calls, but getting the paradigm into your headspace.

That’s what this talk will be all about. I think it’s going to be a blast! Maybe I’ll see you there?

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  • http://dool.in Dave Doolin

    Nice! I just faved on Slideshare, thanks for posting it.  Your observations match mine: coming from development background, some of the conventions and practices in WordPress seemed a bit, ah, “zooey” for a while. Actually, some still do… but it is what it is.  

  • Dot Tominator

    Right on Dave. The best thing I’ve done for my WordPress-fu lately has been to invest myself into the (free) IDE NetBeans, which you’re probably familiar with. Actually any of the big PHP IDEs that can do function lookups are great. I spend so much of my time now looking up function declarations in Core and then wandering through following the thread, and I’m discovering so much more than my earlier dives into Codex. Codex is great, but there so much more under the hood.

  • Dot Tominator

    Re-reading this post, I should explain that, although it’s true that I have been programming for 30+ years, I’m not ANCIENT. My parents got me writing my first code at age 7, so that’s what I’m counting from. Okay, it was just “print” statements in a language called APL, but it still counts, doesn’t it? lol

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