Recap of 2012 WordCamp Vancouver ( WCYVR )
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.
.@GrantLandram is kicking off the first session "Tips to Grow your Professional #WordPress Biz" at #wcyvr http://t.co/um8SmUd4
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
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
.@GrantLandram is kicking off the first session "Tips to Grow your Professional #WordPress Biz" at #wcyvr http://t.co/um8SmUd4
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
@grantlandram "my mom just texted me. she says 'good luck'" #Awesome. #WCYVR
— Chris Yakimov (@chrisyakimov) October 13, 2012
Grant as so great he even was immortalized in an artistic rendition of his presentation!
@grantlandram Thanks for an amazing talk this morning! Very insightful! #wcyvr
— Daniel Pozo (@danpozo) October 13, 2012
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
Getting feedback from the great @jb510 on my API talk for #wcyvr. He is making it more awesome
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
Fourth afternoon session: Interacting with External APIs with @benlobaugh. http://t.co/0oSJZ7wL #wcyvr
— Canadian Web Hosting (@cawebhosting) October 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/neverything/status/257253397202366464
@benlobaugh doing some live coding @ #wcyvr
— David Wright (@MrDWright) October 13, 2012
Love it – "The job of all devs is too be lazy as possible" (in terms of coding).@benlobaugh #WCYVR
— Yumi Ang (@yumi_ang) October 13, 2012
so love the lecture given by @benlobaugh at #WCYVR
— Thomas Jono (@tjmedia) October 13, 2012
#heckling at @benlobaugh at #WCYVR #fun
— Thomas Jono (@tjmedia) October 13, 2012
Loving the heckling & audience engagement in @BenLobaugh's talk. The man is funny! #WCyvr
— @[email protected] (@EricaHargreave) October 13, 2012
@curtismchale @tollmanz I agree! mad props to @benlobaugh for actually live coding #wcyvr
— Joey Kudish 🇺🇦🏳🌈 (@jkudish) October 13, 2012
@EricaHargreave @benlobaugh Yes, we can hear the laughter over here in SWS 1840 🙂 #wcyvr
— Ariane Colenbrander (@Vancouverscape) October 13, 2012
After seeing two presenters use netbeans to live code, I decided to give it a shot. Only because the UI is prettier than PHPstorm. #wcyvr
— Taylor D Dewey (@tddewey) October 13, 2012
We have all now edited a Codex page haha @benlobaugh #wcyvr
— Courtney Fantinato (@CourtFantinato) October 13, 2012
.@benlobaugh proves that covering a advanced #WordPress topic can be a ton of fun. #BeetleJuice #wcyvr
— Bowe Frankema (@BoweFrankema) October 13, 2012
Great prez from @benlobaugh at #wcyvr pic.twitter.com/umEnkYUX
— Grant Landram (@GrantLandram) October 13, 2012
Thoroughly enjoyed @benlobaugh’s live coding demo #wcyvr
Great end to the day.— Flynn O'Connor (@thoronas) October 13, 2012
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!
WordCamp Vancouver attendee saved injured bird #wcyvr http://t.co/D5I1kpG5
— Morten Rand-Hendriksen is elsewhere (@mor10) October 13, 2012
@jjj schmoozing the crowd #wcyvr pic.twitter.com/nm8X3Gzv
— Joey Kudish 🇺🇦🏳🌈 (@jkudish) October 13, 2012
We feel the same way. RT @bluelimemedia: That’s a lot of rain out there. I’m happy to be spending all day inside at #wcyvr.
— Canadian Web Hosting (@cawebhosting) October 13, 2012
HA! @jjj "inline PHPdoc: to help you not be an asshole… to your future self" #WCYVR
— Yumi Ang (@yumi_ang) October 13, 2012
I am updating the #WordPress Codex live at #wcyvr
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
Up next. Build a membership website with WordPress. #wcyvr pic.twitter.com/6MzGG9ub
— Darrell Aganon (@daaganon) October 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/jameswanless/status/257182372510965761
With wp-cli, you can MANAGE ALL THE THINGS! slide with hyperboleandahalf image. #best #wcyvr
— Jill Binder (she, her) (@jillbinder) October 13, 2012
How I feel using wp-cli http://t.co/Unr2MhQW #wcyvr
— Flynn O'Connor (@thoronas) October 13, 2012
Building An Open Course/ Community With WP, Syndication & Duct Tape [viz notes] @cogdog #wcyvr http://t.co/iNPbIYKf
— Giulia Forsythe (@giuliaforsythe) October 13, 2012
@mor10 being…well, Morten. #wcyvr http://t.co/X9BNQ1L6
— Ariane Colenbrander (@Vancouverscape) October 13, 2012
Seen at #wcyvr I might just remove all my stickers and switch to this awesomeness. W/ @benlobaugh (at BCIT) [pic] — http://t.co/Ko1N1DPy
— Jon Brown (@jb510) October 13, 2012
Updated 5 #WordPress Codex pages during #wcyvr
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
Super interesting. UBC uses #MediaWiki to manage the content for a huge #WordPress MultiSite install of 10k+ sites #wcyvr /cc @brainwane
— Ben Lobaugh (@benlobaugh) October 13, 2012
You can find my slides and sample code for my wp-cli talk at #wcyvr here: http://t.co/xbbHbuwi
— Kira Schroder (@GetSource) October 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/jasonbobich/status/257224482224226305
I hope to some day be able to present code as awesomely as @tollmanz. #wcyvr
— Kira Schroder (@GetSource) October 13, 2012
I love that @tollmanz drops hip hop lessons in every presentation I’ve seen him do #wcyvr
— Flynn O'Connor (@thoronas) October 13, 2012
@Tollmanz talk on WordPress caching the best I've seen. Blowing my mind with manual cache invalidation and cache grouping. #wcyvr
— Jon Brown (@jb510) October 13, 2012
http://t.co/SXPo0NvM @Tollmanz talk on WordPress caching the best I've seen out of many. #wcyvr
— Jon Brown (@jb510) October 13, 2012
@boone showing awesome BuddyPress sites beyond FB clones Coming of Age http://t.co/GAuuRuox #wcyvr
— Jon Brown (@jb510) October 13, 2012
WordCamp Vancouver attendee saved injured bird #wcyvr http://t.co/D5I1kpG5
— Morten Rand-Hendriksen is elsewhere (@mor10) October 13, 2012
My brain is full from developer talks at Wordcamp Vancouver 2012 #wcyvr
— Kevin Fukawa (@kevinfukawa) October 13, 2012
Aaaand the party is underway. Great looking crowd #wcyvr pic.twitter.com/IA6K64aU
— TAPshack (@TAPshackeatery) October 14, 2012
Had a great time at WordCamp Vancouver today. Thanks for organizing it Morten, Vannessa, Joey and Angela, and thanks, BCIT! #WCYVR
— Mari Kane (@blogsitestudio) October 14, 2012