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- November 12, 2018
- CF Camp 2018 Recap
Two planes, two continents, a two-hour drive from San Francisco, and 36-ish hours later, I’m finally home from CF Camp 2018!
- November 7, 2018
- My CFCamp 2018 Schedule
Greetings from Munich Germany! On Thursday and Friday I’ll be at CFCamp, the conference for all things CFML/ColdFusion in Europe! Who says ColdFusion is dead? CFCamp has grown year after year, having to move to bigger venues twice in the last 4 years.
- October 16, 2018
- Speaking at CF Camp 2018
Freshly back from ColdFusion Summit, and it’s already almost time to leave for the next conference. In a few weeks I take off for Munich to speak at CF Camp 2018!
- October 15, 2018
- ColdFusion Summit 2018 Recap, Part 2
In the earlier post, we covered our adventures with the pre-conference workshop and highlights from the keynote. Tuesday and Wednesday were the traditional 1-hour sessions.
- October 15, 2018
- ColdFusion Summit Notes: Sync or Async the Aha Moment - Shirak Avakian
understanding sync/async
Synchronous - the operation blocks a process until the operation completes
runs “line by line”Asynchronous - non-blocking
only initiate the operation
- October 15, 2018
- ColdFusion Summit Notes: Geek Out With the Smart Language Additions in ColdFusion 2018, Rakshith Naresh
null support
datatype preservationnull
interacts w/ JavaScript, database,
how do we handle nulls in OTHER platforms?
so now we have REAL null support
and real datatype is preserved
if it’s a ‘string’ it will continue to be a bool in CF2018
- October 15, 2018
- ColdFusion Summit Notes - Refreshing your UI: Modern Uses for WebSockets, Giancarlo Gomez
websockets are:
full duplex communication channels over a TCP connection
bidirectional communication
little overhead
not holding an http connection open
very low latency
- October 8, 2018
- ColdFusion Summit 2018 Recap, Part 1
Last week was the 2018 ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas. By all accounts it was a very successful event! This year’s conference was held at the Hard Rock Hotel, slightly off the strip more than past hotels have been, but I didn’t really mind. Between teaching a pre-conference workshop and the various music references in the hotel, I didn’t really have a need (or time) to venture out until after the conference was totally over.
- September 30, 2018
- My ColdFusion Summit 2018 Schedule
In a few hours I jump on a plane for Las Vegas to attend the Adobe ColdFusion Summit!
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Blogging Basics, Improve Your Blog and Maximize Results - Jennifer Bourn
blog is a file cabinet - a place to store content that other people need to be able to find easily and quickly
place to store infocategories are like drawers
tags are like folders
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Lessons Learned Releasing My First WordPress Plugin - Jamie Bergen
1. Scratch your own itch
think about pain points for YOU
if you built it, YOU would want to use it
will help you feel invested in the project
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Accessibility, Beginning The Journey - Ben Byrne
Accessibility is...
The degree to which a product, device, to services or environment is available to as many people as possible
pertains to more than just websites - also apps, etc.
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Start Your SEO Strong With 4 Key Pieces Of Content - Taylor Waldon
why your website NEEDS a blog
defining your place online
3 key pieces of content
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Local SEO The Old Fashioned Way - Jim Kaspari
local SEO vs global SEO
local = brick and mortar businesses providing services in the local area
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Getting Your First Online Course Published - Bodie Quirk
What do you need to build an online course?
7 things you must know about
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Podcasting With WordPress - Ray Ortega
The Podcaster Studio
Why WordPress for podcasts?
does everything a podcast needs
starts w/ basic creation all the way up to full blown sites and community
membership site, monetizing
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: The Biggest Design Problem I've Confronted Is Project Management - Chris Ford
PRINCIPLES --
guiding principles in design
#1 skill is EMPATHY
REALLY care about people
genuine interest
flexibility
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Site Migration? Redesign? Don't Tank Your SEO - Kathy Alice Brown
what's changing?
migration and redesign can mean a lot of different things
domain name?
url?
design/ theme?
information architecture?
are you rebranding?
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Leverage Linting To Be A Better Developer - Matt Vanderpol
linting
code quality tool4 main components
1. the code
2. rules - describe what the code should look like when everything is working well
3. process - a program that runs, pulls in the rules, analyzes the code, figures out where it does NOT match the rules
4. reports - when the process is done, you need a way to see the output, where your code does not match, where the problems are that you need to address
- September 26, 2018
- WordCamp Sacramento 2018 Recap
Two weeks ago was WordCamp Sacramento 2018. I’ve spoken there before but haven’t been able to attend in the last couple of years due to scheduling conflicts. I was actually scheduled to teach an HTML/CSS workshop in San Francisco on the same weekend this year but the client had a conflict of their own and had to cancel, so off to WordCamp I went!