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Slides from my WordCamp NYC Talk

This past weekend I spoke at WordCamp NYC about Building a High Performance WordPress Environment in a panel presentation with Scott Taylor

The slides for my portion of the presentation can be found at SlideShare and…well…right here:

https://www.slideshare.net/mattmartz/wordcamp-nyc

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Headed to WordCamp New York City

It’s that time of the year again and my favorite WordCamp is about to begin. Last year I made the trip to WordCamp NYC and spoke in two sessions. I had an immense amount of fun last year, and even though I have moved from the East Coast to Texas I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to attend again.

The company that I now work for, Rackspace, who is a big supporter of WordPress will be sponsoring the event as well as sending myself and Rob Taylor.

As with last year I will be speaking, this time about Performance and Optimization. The Performance and Optimization session will be a panel with myself and Scott Taylor. I will be focusing on “Building a High Performance WordPress Environment” and Scott will be focusing on “Front End Optimization Tools”. If we are able to get a third person on board they will be covering “CDNs and Offloading”. We will be keeping the presentations short to allow time for a question and answer session as well as some discussions between the panel members about certain aspects of performance and optimization in WordPress.

WordCamp NYC will also be holding a Genius Bar as does every other WordCamp, but the one thing most other WordCamps don’t have is me. One other special event happening at WordCamp NYC is the Hacker Room, where myself, Andrew Nacin, Daryl Koopersmith and other WordPress core contributors will be spending time over the 2 day event to write patches for WordPress 3.1 which is just about to hit feature freeze. If you are interested in helping out and getting started with WordPress core development please stop by.

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Slides From WordCamp NYC Are Up

For those of you who aren’t following me on Twitter, I have posted my slides from WordCamp NYC on SlideShare. Head on over and check them out! http://www.slideshare.net/mattmartz, and for those of you who want more variety in download formats, since the version on SlideShare is a PDF take a look at http://sivel.net/presentations/2009/wcnyc/.

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Write Good Plug-ins and Get Involved in WordPress Development

This is cross posted from the WordCamp NYC site. This post will show up there at some point today.

Howdy, I’m Matt Martz. The majority of you probably know me as ‘sivel’ and I will be doing two separate talks at WordCamp NYC on Saturday, one in the Advanced Plug-in Dev Track and one in Beginners Plug-in Dev Track. The two topics I will be covering are Intermediate Plug-in Development Techniques and Writing Your First Core Patch. I will also be spending as much time as I can in the ‘Hacker Room’ helping people test and write patches for the upcoming WordPress 2.9. If time permits I’ll try do spend some time at the Genius Bar as well.

Giveaways

In both of my sessions I will be doing Twitter based giveaways. I will be giving away 5 items to randomly picked people who attend my sessions. If you want to find out what I am giving away you will have to come my sessions. Winners will be picked automatically at the end of each session using a WordPress plug-in I wrote specially for the occasion.

Intermediate Plug-in Development Techniques

We all strive to write good plug-ins. Plug-ins that not only function well, but plug-ins that have sexy code and use the WordPress APIs whenever possible for tight integration into core. I’ll go over some of the techniques which I believe will help take your plug-ins to that next level. Techniques will include:

  • Splitting Plug-ins into Multiple Files
  • Tips on When to Load
  • Using Classes
  • Localization
  • Ajax
  • If time permits I will try to touch base on a few other items

Writing Your First Core Patch

There are a lot of people out there that I see every day saying they found a bug or want a feature, but in the end never do anything about it. I’ll go over testing to verify the bug, getting assistance from the community, using the WordPress provided resources, explaining Trac and ticket fields and if time permits giving a few demos for actually creating that patch.

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