Aaron is an engineer with Clearspring where he works on AddThis and a WordPress Core Contributor. He has spoken to multiple User Groups and at WordCamps in four time zones. When he’s not busy creating and fixing bugs, Aaron helps run an educational simulation conference for over 1500 college students. He’ll gladly toast to the [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean of iThemes
May 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With six years of experience developing and maintaining a closed CMS, Chris finally saw the light in 2008 and shifted his focus over to WordPress. As a member of the iThemes team, his focus is creating themes and plugins that allow users to have advanced control over their site without knowledge of code. Whatever that [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Ronald Huereca of iThemes
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ronald’s worked with WordPress since 2006 and mostly dabbles in WordPress plugins. He has extensive experience with Ajax and jQuery. He recently joined the iThemes team to develop plugins for PluginBuddy. Ronald will be presenting on the topic of Plugin Localization in the Developers track. Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Douglas Hanna of A Small Orange
May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Douglas runs a web hosting company called A Small Orange, but has been involved with WordPress in a variety of ways for a number of years now, including as the person responsible for the very popular WordPress Showcase. The Showcase is terrific because it shows what people can do with WordPress. As Douglas put it, [...]
Speaker Spotlight: John Ford of Automattic
May 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
John presently works for Automattic, focusing his attention on VaultPress, a security scanning and realtime backup service for WordPress.org users. Passion for coding is what motivates John, but some people are beginning to question his attachment to his iPad. Mix equal parts beautiful code writer, lover of healthy living, world traveler, living room DJ, and [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Ryan Duff of Fusionized Technology
May 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ryan has been working with WordPress since early 2004 and was the original author of WordPress Contact Form. As a long time community member, he enjoys exploring new ways to make use of WordPress. Making things simple for clients is the core of that. Customizing the admin section, creating custom meta boxes, custom post types [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Jonathan Davis of Ingenesis
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jonathan is the original author and lead developer of the Shopp e-commerce plugin for WordPress and founder of Ingenesis Limited. With almost 15 years of design and development on the web and he still can’t make up his mind whether he’s a designer or a developer. In 2005 he started using WordPress exclusively for his [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Doug Cone of Nullvariable Web Consulting
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Doug started out on the Internet working professionally with his first web site project in 1997 for the Navigators. Since then he has worked on many professional and personal web design projects. Doug has worked with companies ranging from small local business to major corporations. He also has a background in training and sales, working [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Jayvie Canono of One Fine Jay
May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jayvie is a hybrid designer/developer who’s worked with WordPress since the earliest versions. He writes and speaks about design and best practices with WordPress development. Jayvie will be presenting on the topic of Bridging the Designer-Developer Gap in the Power Users track. Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Jayvie: Do [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner.com
May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner. He is known for his aggressive marketing skills, creative designs, and expertise in SEO. Syed has been in the industry for over eight years, and he has worked with some of the top brands in the industry. He is known as “the WordPress Ninja” among our clients because [...]
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