Grant Landram and I had the pleasure of representing freshmuse this weekend by attending the 2012 Vancouver, BC WordCamp as speakers. Grant and I bookended the day as the first and last speakers.
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257151985780944897
Grant’s talk on Tips to Grow your Professional WordPress Business ( slides ) has been highly sought after this year, and Grant deliver another stunning rendition of his presentation today. Though delivered many times ( and traveling together ), today was the first WordCamp presentation by Grant I was able to attend. It was very good. Unfortunately Vancouver did not video record the sessions, but I highly recommend you head to WordPress.tv and watch Grant’s Portland session. Some tweets from Grant’s session
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257151985780944897
https://twitter.com/chrisyakimov/status/257152362735611905
Grant as so great he even was immortalized in an artistic rendition of his presentation!
https://twitter.com/danpozo/status/257175772240957440
https://twitter.com/katebusiness/status/257177499052679168
I was delighted that I was asked to present on Interacting with External APIs at another WordCamp. There was a great turnout, with 100+ people attending. I opened by telling people that I like a lot of audience interaction and that I was going to perform a live demo and heckling was encouraged. The people really took that to heard. I swear there were some professional hecklers in the crowd. It was all in good fun though. My presentation was in the last time slot of the day, which is typically when the attendee’s brains are buzzing from information overload. I designed my presentation to be pretty light due to that, and it was a lot of fun. Lots of laughs. A great way to end the day. I found myself laughing more than the audience I think. Each attendee was given an evaluation card to fill out at the end and my talk apparently received high marks and comments like “It was life changing!” I am not sure if I would go that far, but I know I had a fantastic time. I was nervous following two great speakers, but it came off well. I even received a clapping ovation when my code worked the first time around. Here are some tweets around my talk:
Pre-talk support from Jon Brown who had seen the same presentation in Las Vegas
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257181319614853121
https://twitter.com/cawebhosting/status/257255686604480512
https://twitter.com/neverything/status/257253397202366464
https://twitter.com/MrDWright/status/257258993490210816
https://twitter.com/yumi_ang/status/257259556248367104
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https://twitter.com/EricaHargreave/status/257261283081060354
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https://twitter.com/arianecdesign/status/257263310284652544
https://twitter.com/tddewey/status/257264756174512128
https://twitter.com/CourtFantinato/status/257264771051683841
https://twitter.com/BoweFrankema/status/257265191950098432
https://twitter.com/GrantLandram/status/257266787157155840
https://twitter.com/thoronas/status/257267548662398978
It is now edging closer to 2 AM and as I need to be up again in a few hours for BuddyCamp instead of doing a play by play recap I will provide you with some select curated tweet that help illustrate just how fun WordCamps can be. If you missed Vancouver WordCamp this year be sure you keep an eye out for next time around!
https://twitter.com/mor10/status/257248175109312512
https://twitter.com/jkudish/status/257167027263909888
https://twitter.com/cawebhosting/status/257167234030505984
https://twitter.com/yumi_ang/status/257175867187408896
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257178714406809600
https://twitter.com/daaganon/status/257181313541472256
https://twitter.com/jameswanless/status/257182372510965761
https://twitter.com/jillbinder/status/257182750283550721
https://twitter.com/thoronas/status/257185934985031680
https://twitter.com/giuliaforsythe/status/257186910345252864
https://twitter.com/arianecdesign/status/257196697233530880
https://twitter.com/jb510/status/257198770712883200
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257217688689057792
https://twitter.com/benlobaugh/status/257213861369876482
https://twitter.com/GetSource/status/257219077980966912
https://twitter.com/jasonbobich/status/257224482224226305
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https://twitter.com/thoronas/status/257230848141705216
https://twitter.com/jb510/status/257232652673896448
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https://twitter.com/mor10/status/257248175109312512
https://twitter.com/kevinfukawa/status/257238064659832832
https://twitter.com/millbistro/status/257315676799254528
https://twitter.com/blogsitestudio/status/257271726549909504
Good recap Ben and thanks for your talk on external API’s! I’m trying to wrap my head around some of the stuff for a small widget right now. Glad you liked the bus on my laptop.
It was my pleasure! If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask
I already implemented some of the methods you showed in a little widget I’m working on. It reduced code (was wir cURL before) and readability. One thing that kept me awake all night was the, in my opinion, false cookie value handling by WordPress WP_Http_Cookie. The cookie value gets filtered through
urldecode(see: class-http.php) this function removes “+” and other special characters from the value and made it nearly impossible to use the cookie again in the second request with wp_remote_get(). I came up with a nasty fix here: https://gist.github.com/3903478.Just in case you have experienced something like this before and have the time, I would love to hear your opinion on this.