{"id":763,"date":"2012-08-12T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T14:28:38","slug":"speaker-spotlight-colin-vernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-colin-vernon\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Colin Vernon!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colin Vernon<\/p><\/div>\n

WordCamp Montreal is only a week away! We’re excited to bring you a new speaker spotlight series this year!<\/p>\n

Our next spotlight is Colin Vernon<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Founder of\u00a0Stresslimit design<\/a>, Colin has directed, architected and developed CMS platforms, intranets, applications and websites of all shapes & sizes for over a decade. His company and projects focus beautiful, useful, multi-platform communication, based mostly on WordPress as an extensible web platform. As well as being a long-time advocate of\u00a0web standards, open source and the semantic web, he has lots of WordPress experience: his plugins have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and he has worked directly with Automattic on a number of projects. He is now also part of the WordPress-powered PressBooks project which aims to merge web, e-pub and print publishing for small and large authors and publishers. He\u00a0also runs a\u00a0record label<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colin will be giving a talk titled\u00a0WordPress Workflows and Process for small teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n

Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader ? [3.2]<\/p>\n

is_main_query() ? [3.3]<\/p>\n

adding ‘ep_mask’ to register_post_type() ? [3.4]<\/p>\n

Future potential of new CRUD XMLRPC APIs for all built-in and custom post types ? [3.4]<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n

We’ve been so deep in web development in general and WP specifically for so many years, it’s fun to share & give back some knowledge, plus I always learn something when presenting ideas to an interested audience.<\/p>\n

What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n

Lots of general tips for intermediate developers and small teams<\/p>\n

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n

At least one method, process or tool that will save them time or hassle from now on.<\/p>\n

Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n

All the core devs and contributors are awesome, but Matt<\/a> is my favourite he’s so cute.<\/p>\n

What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n

A simple, robust theme options API that works, without coding forms or relying on externals frameworks or classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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