WordCamp Toronto ‘08 - Day Two
Day two was a success at WordCamp! There was an incredible lineup of speakers. The BackSpace team had the opportunity to meet many passionate WordPress designers, developers, and professional bloggers. It was great to network with others in the community and spend a little one on one time with some very talented and created individuals.
What impressed me the most today was the overwhelming number of folks interested in getting together outside the conference to explore, create, and inspire new open source tools.
This is what I love about WordPress! Its another great example of how a solid open source community can develop offline and continue to make its mark on the industry as a whole, from all walks of digital life.
My presenter pick of the day had to be Mark Jaquith, a core developer for WordPress, the geek in me was waiting all weekend to drool over some fancy WordPress code, and Mark delivered with his presentation on “Secure Coding with WordPress”. Check out Marks presentation here.
The craziest presentation of the day has to go Mark McKay. Awesome, that’s all I have to say! If you don’t know Mark Mckay, you should. Check him out here.
As usual I geeked out with some code bling! I covered the essentials of writing, customizing, and extending WordPress plug-ins, how to pimp your blog from front to back, and some basic tips on getting starting with WordPress development. You can download my presentation here.
