Speaker Spotlight: Dave Moyer of Bitwire Media

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Steve M

Dave is a blogger, podcaster, web developer, radio host, actor, YouTuber, musician and photographer. He’s the founding President of Bitwire Media, the producers of blogs, podcasts and new media programming including WordCast and Making My Life.

Recent speaking credits include:
– WordCamp Developers (Vancouver, BC)
– Library of Congress Teacher Librarian Day 2011
– CSIA DEMOGala 2010
– OpenCamp Dallas 2010
– WordCamp Reno 2010
– WordCamp Raleigh 2010

When not on the road, Dave resides in Denver, CO. He’s also 18 years old.

Dave will be presenting on the topic of WordPress Multisite: The Why and How of WordPress Blog Networks in the Users track. Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Dave:

Since version 3.0, the multisite functionality of WordPressMU is built into every WordPress install. Do you know how and why to create a network of sites? In this session, we’ll take a look at the basics of WordPress multisite. More importantly, do you understand how to take advantage of multisite technology to turbocharge your content? We’ll review the mistakes and misconceptions that make so many multisite installs irrelevant and painful wastes of time. Networks aren’t just for the geeks anymore! Use this power for good.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Dave. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @davemoyer

VaultPress sponsors WordCamp Raleigh 2011

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Steve M

We are extremely pleased to announce that VaultPress is a Gold sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011.

VaultPress is the complete website backup and security solution that’s as simple as WordPress itself. Vaultpress provides realtime, continuous backup and synchronization of every post, comment, media file, revision and dashboard setting across at least two separate cloud services in addition to the Automattic grid, ensuring no loss of content.

Find out more about VaultPress at VaultPress.com.

Please join us on May 21st and 22nd for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and learn more about VaultPress.

Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Jorbin of Clearspring

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Steve M

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 GPL any day of the week and happily will discuss whisky, quality beer, or the upper peninsula of Michigan with anyone that wants.

Aaron will be presenting on the topic of Debugging and filing bug reports for WordPress in the Developers track. Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Aaron:

Debugging is one of the most important skills that any developer can have. It doesn’t matter what your niche, if you write software, you’ll face bugs. In this presentation I will go over tools for debugging, common types of bugs, and testing methods.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Aaron. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @aaronjorbin

Announcing CompTIA as a sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Steve M

We are extremely pleased to announce a Special Event sponsor, CompTIA. CompTIA will be providing lunch on Saturday for hungry WordCampers.

As the non-profit association for the global information technology (IT) industry, CompTIA offers globally-recognized, vendor-neutral IT certifications to raise the skill level of the world’s IT workforce as well as member educational programs, networking events, research, and public policy advocacy to help the industry grow. Visit certification.comptia.org

This is the second year that CompTIA has sponsored WordCamp Raleigh and we are extremely happy to welcome them back. Please join us on May 21st and 22nd for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet CompTIA.

Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean of iThemes

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Steve M

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 means. When he’s not on a bash shell or coding away in Vim, he can be found watching anime or playing TF2.

Chris will be presenting on the topic of Standardized Loop API: The Next Big Thing in the Developers track. Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Chris:

Themes used to be the wild west of WordPress with everyone doing their own thing. Over the years, APIs for widgets, comments, menus, featured images, post formats, and so on were added to tame themes with a consistent set of tools and features.

This presentation makes the case for and shows examples of a possible next step for evolving the theme API: a loop API and standard.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Chris. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @chrisjean