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The Otto and Nacin Show

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Web Fonts for Developers

After 15 years of contenting ourselves with system fonts, type in images, or workarounds with Flash, we can finally use real fonts on the web.  Broad browser support for CSS @font-face has ushered in a web typography renaissance.  Join Typekit

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Ask Barry

Ask your questions here and I will answer them during my session.

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Intro to the WordPress Ecosystem

New to WordPress, or trying to convince someone to use it who is? This session is for you. An introduction to the WordPress ecosystem and how some organizations are working within it will be followed by examples and case studies…

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What’s New in BuddyPress 1.5

Lead BuddyPress developer will walk through the code changes in the latest releas of the popular social networking plugin.

Check out John James Jacoby’s slides: What’s new in BuddyPress 1.5

About the Speaker: Having feasted on Wisconsin’s finest…

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Build a Better Frankenstein’s Monster: Tabletracker.com

Thanks to cloud-based services and Open Source technologies, IP is not only changing, it is being redefined and it is helping increase the value of many a start-up (and service) like never before. I am the founder of Tabletracker, a…

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WordPress for the Greater Good

WordPress provides an excellent platform for non-profit organizations to build out their web presence. In this joint session, two unique non-profit projects will be showcased, and questions about both projects and/or why using WordPress is such a benefit to non-profits…

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Deep Voodoo: How the Innermost Innards of WordPress Work

Query, Rewrite, etc. Nobody knows how this stuff works. More importantly, nobody knows how deeply pluggable everything is. I will begin by posting a request on my blog in June. The audience will pose questions about how things work or…

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How To Hire and Manage a Developer

This presentation focuses on breaking down the communication barriers that can make working with a developer more difficult than it needs to be. The presentation will cover

Interviewing Your Potential Developer Planning & Project Management Using A Version Control System…

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Taking WordPress to the World : Options for a Multilingual Site

About 2/3 of the world population speak more than one language and most of the world doesn’t use the Internet in English. This presentation will cover what components are needed for a successful multilingual WordPress site. We’ll compare different set-ups,…

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