This lecture occurred on Saturday July 21, 2007 from 3pm-4pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall.
If I had to summarize Lloyd and Mark’s comments into just one sentence it would be, “you don’t have to be a programmer to contribute to the development of WordPress.”
Heck, you can even help out by attending events like this and taking photos or videos of them. Lorelle is giving back by making a low cost book called Blogging Tips available. (I guarantee she didn’t do it for the money!)
So without further ado, here are Mark and Lloyd to give you the details.
WordCamp 2007 WordPress Developer Duke-outThis was the last one hour session, entitled Developer Duke-out, from the WordCamp 2007 conference conducted by Matt Mullenweg and...
[...] “Getting Involved with WordPress” session video John Pozadzides has posted the video of the session that I did with Lloyd Budd at WordCamp 2007 on “Getting Involved with WordPress.” Thanks John! And yes — you summed up the spirit of the session well: you don’t have to be a programmer to get involved with WordPress! [...]
[...] I have decided to do some playing around with unit tests for PHP. I saw a video on Getting Involved in WordPress and it reminded me of my interest in unit testing. Now I almost want to create some unit tests for verifying WordPress plugins or phpWebSite code. Fortunately, common sense will prevail and I will restrict my activities to playing. The instructions at Chapter 3. Installing PHPUnit looked pretty easy but since I wanted to do my testing under XAMPP I knew there would be problems. Hopefully the problems would be minor. [...]
[...] “Getting Involved with WordPress” session video John Pozadzides has posted the video of the session that I did with Lloyd Budd at WordCamp 2007 on “Getting Involved with WordPress.” Thanks John! And yes — you summed up the spirit of the session well: you don’t have to be a programmer to get involved with WordPress! [...]
I love seeing the clips from the WP show :)
[...] I have decided to do some playing around with unit tests for PHP. I saw a video on Getting Involved in WordPress and it reminded me of my interest in unit testing. Now I almost want to create some unit tests for verifying WordPress plugins or phpWebSite code. Fortunately, common sense will prevail and I will restrict my activities to playing. The instructions at Chapter 3. Installing PHPUnit looked pretty easy but since I wanted to do my testing under XAMPP I knew there would be problems. Hopefully the problems would be minor. [...]
[...] John Pozadzides of One Man Blog has posted this video of the session. [...]
[...] One Man’s Blog: WordCamp 2007 – Getting Involved with WordPress [...]