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January 2018 ***Not Beginner*** Meetup
Date
Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018 7:00 PM
LoopConf talk previews! Not just one, but two of our meetup members are speaking at LoopConf (https://loopconf.com/) in February and are going to preview their talks for us.
While this is a meetup in our “***Not Beginner***” series, anyone at any experience level is welcome to attend, but there will be an assumption in the presentations and discussion that attendees have prior knowledge of WordPress.
1) Developing on The Front-End: Chrome Developer Tools
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Are you debugging your JavaScript by writing console.log statements – the front-end equivalent of using “echo” or “var_dump” in PHP?
Being primarily a back-end developer, I was accustomed to using XDEBUG as part of my workflow, but often fell back on rudimentary debugging skills when it came to debugging JavaScript or diagnosing performance issues from the front-end.
Enter Chrome Developer Tools. It seems that every time I look, this little window in Chrome gets more and more features that save me time and headaches debugging, testing and optimizing my web pages. Whether I’m stepping through JavaScript, Debugging CSS, Testing REST API calls, or auditing page performance, Chrome’s Developer Tools are there to help. In this session, I’ll share with you some of the features that have made this tool an essential part of my toolbox. I’ll show you how how to diagnose a page’s performance issues, audit a page for accessibility, review page security,inspect calls made to the REST API, and more.
Presented by: Shawn Hooper. Shawn has been a web developer since the mid 1990s, watching the web grow from simple and tags to the complex mix of markup and languages it is today. He is now the Director of IT at learning and development startup Actionable.co, as well as being a freelance WordPress developer in his “spare time”. Shawn has a few contributions to WordPress Core under his belt, and will be taking on the role of Lead Organizer for WordCamp Ottawa in 2018.
2) Refactoring the Disaster No One Is Talking About: How We’re Handling JavaScript Tech Debt in WP Migrate DB Pro
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An issue a lot of WordPress teams are facing (including the current Gutenberg discussions) is how do you implement new and shiny JavaScript into an existing WordPress application?
JavaScript technical debt can be a disaster, but working with legacy code doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. WP Migrate DB Pro has a *lot* of JavaScript tech debt in our existing codebase but how much time should our team be devoting to it versus adding new features?
In this talk, Peter (the WP Migrate DB Pro team lead), will talk through how to balance solving new problems while refactoring an old codebase.
Some of the questions Peter will address include:
– How to update your build tooling from Grunt to Webpack/npm scripts
– How to avoid rewriting your jQuery soup but still use the latest shiny JavaScript
– Switching to ES2015 syntax and modules
Very much a show-and-tell, you should walk away from this talk knowing some of the pitfalls to avoid (don’t make the same mistakes as us!) and some tricks you can implement today to help you balance this in your own JavaScript development.
Presented by: Peter Tasker. Peter is a PHP and JavaScript developer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He currently works on refactoring all the code on the WP Migrate DB Pro team at Delicious Brains. In a previous life, he worked for marketing and public relations agencies. Loves WordPress, dislikes FTP.
Meeting Details:
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This is a meetup in our “***Not Beginner***” series. This series of talks is for WordPress (or related) presentations that are not at a beginner level.
Anyone at any experience level is welcome to attend, but there will be an assumption in the presentations and discussion that attendees have some knowledge of WordPress.
Senate Room, 6th Floor – Robertson Hall (http://carleton.ca/campus/map/#RO), Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive.
Parking on campus requires payment, but all of the lots, including the garage just to the north of Roberson Hall, cap at $8 for the evening after 5pm. http://www5.carleton.ca/parking/visitors/parking-rates/
Agenda
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7:00 – General announcements
7:05 – Presentations
8:30 – Wrap-up
January 2018 Virtual Contrib2Core [Developers]
Date
Monday, 08 Jan 2018 12:00 PM
WHAT WE DO
Note: The activities in this meetup are best suited for intermediate/advanced WordPress developers.
Join Paul Bearne (Senior Freelance WordPress Developer) for a virtual meetup using Google Hangouts, where we come together as a team with the aim of adding to and improving WordPess itself (contrib to core).
This is a series of monthly events using YouTube live recording on Google Hangouts. A new hangout link is published in the comments shortly before each session. All registered attendees will also receive an email, just before the meetup, containing this link.
Sessions are interactive – you will help craft the code and create your own core commits. As at the beginning of January 2018, we had submitted around 20 patches of which about half have so far made it into a release from this project.
You do not need to have experience of core commits, just to be reasonably comfortable with code and willing to come along, learn and do. There is guidance all the way, with opportunities to help with documentation and research. You can even just lurk and listen!
At each meetup, we are working on writing unit tests for the original functions file in WordPress – there are around 200 functions to keep us occupied!
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
If you are new to core development, you will need to install
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV or have a working deployment build of WordPess.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
The file we are working on is:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core/blob/master/src/wp-includes/functions.php
We will use this repo to swap code as we work:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core
More reading:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
This is a shared event with The Toronto WordPress Group and The Kingston WordPress Group and is open to anyone, anywhere!
December 2017 Virtual Contrib2Core [Developers]
Date
Monday, 11 Dec 2017 6:30 PM
Virtual Contrib2Core – Shared event with WPToronto
See the Toronto WordPress Group for the partner event.
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Note: The activities in this meetup are best suited for intermediate/advanced WordPress developers.
Join Paul Bearne (Senior Freelance WordPress Developer) for a virtual meetup using Google Hangouts, where we come together as a team with the aim of adding to and improving WordPess itself (contrib to core).
This is a series of bi-weekly events using YouTube live recording on Google Hangouts. A new hangout link is published in the comments shortly before each session.
Sessions are interactive – you will help craft the code and create your own core commits. As at the beginning of April, we had submitted 6 patches of which 2 have so far been accepted into WordPress 4.5 from this project. You do not need to have experience of core commits, just to be reasonably comfortable with code and willing to come along, learn and do. There is guidance all the way, with opportunities to help with documentation and research. You can even just lurk and listen!
At each meetup, we are working on writing unit tests for the original functions file in WordPress – there are around 200 functions to keep us occupied!
The file we are working on is:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core/blob/master/src/wp-includes/functions.php
We will use this repo to swap code as we work:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core
If you are new to core development, you will need to install
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV or have a working deployment build of WordPess.
More reading:
December 2017 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 06 Dec 2017 6:00 PM
WordPress Tips and Tricks
Open discussion on ideas to help with your WordPress site.
Meeting Details:
This months meeting is at Patty Bolands, 101 Clarence St. We have the room called “The Abbey”.
Agenda
6:00 – General announcements
6:10 – Presentation
7:00 – Q&A
7:30 – Wrap-up
November 2017 Virtual Contrib2Core [Developers]
Date
Monday, 13 Nov 2017 12:00 PM
Virtual Contrib2Core – Shared event with WPToronto
See the Toronto WordPress Group for the partner event.
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Note: The activities in this meetup are best suited for intermediate/advanced WordPress developers.
Join Paul Bearne (Senior Freelance WordPress Developer) for a virtual meetup using Google Hangouts, where we come together as a team with the aim of adding to and improving WordPess itself (contrib to core).
This is a series of bi-weekly events using YouTube live recording on Google Hangouts. A new hangout link is published in the comments shortly before each session.
Sessions are interactive – you will help craft the code and create your own core commits. As at the beginning of April, we had submitted 6 patches of which 2 have so far been accepted into WordPress 4.5 from this project. You do not need to have experience of core commits, just to be reasonably comfortable with code and willing to come along, learn and do. There is guidance all the way, with opportunities to help with documentation and research. You can even just lurk and listen!
At each meetup, we are working on writing unit tests for the original functions file in WordPress – there are around 200 functions to keep us occupied!
The file we are working on is:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core/blob/master/src/wp-includes/functions.php
We will use this repo to swap code as we work:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core
If you are new to core development, you will need to install
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV or have a working deployment build of WordPess.
More reading: