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I’ll be continuing my WordCamp speaking tour at WordCamp Philadelphia on October 30th. I’m giving the latest version of Parsing Strange, my WP internals talk that dissects URL parsing, SQL generation and user-serviceable parts you might run into. With custom page types and custom taxonomies gaining interest and traction in the WordPress community, [...]
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I’m speaking at WordCamp Boulder later on today, in the TechStars room. It’s a small room, without any floor grading, so if you’re not in the first three rows of free-standing seats it’s obstructed view.
To make it easier for people to follow along (since some of the slides are critical for grokking the more [...]
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Amanda Blum spoke at WordCamp Chicago about web site design and ensuring your content is reaching the desired audience, and that the audience can find and explore the content. Seems kind of obvious. But then she pulled the zinger: don’t display ads and don’t bother with a blogroll. You want readers on [...]
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I’ll be giving an updated version of Parsing Strange: From URL to SQL to HTML at WordCamp Boulder on Saturday July 10. If you’re local, spend the $45 to get thoroughly educated in the latest on the WordPress high-powered, exceptionally low-cost, fully extensible content management system. In Boston, we’d call it a [...]
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Waiting for my outbound Continental flight at O’Hare airport (now there’s a surprise) after WordCamp Chicago this weekend.
One word summary: Wow. I’ve been to the two WordCamps in New York as a part organizer and registration desk sitter, but not as a presenter or active attendee. Now that I’ve been on the stage, [...]
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I’ve published the slides from my WordCamp Chicago talk this morning on SlideShare.net. While I had the evil hangover slot, nearly 200 fervent WordPress developers managed to make it into the (chilly) room to hear me rant about SQL grammar, inner joins and Cartesian table products, and why social graphs don’t fit data [...]
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Backstory on last night’s side project: a friend was lamenting the horrendous performance impact of bad URL references to an image repository that shares a home with his WordPress powered blog. The images are in a directory that rides sidebar to his WordPress installation; he has foobar.com as the WordPress install root and [...]
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