{"id":758,"date":"2016-10-22T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?p=758"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:17:10","slug":"meet-the-speakers-for-the-developer-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/meet-the-speakers-for-the-developer-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Speakers for the Developer Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past two days we introduced you to the speaker lineups<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/10\/18\/meet-the-bloggers-power-users-speakers\/\"> for Track 01<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/10\/21\/wordcamp-focuses\u2026ness-freelancers\/\">for Track 02<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">Track 03 for Developers is another rockstar roster<\/a> full of highly skilled and technically-minded folks.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to dive deeper into WordPress and crack open what makes it tick, this is the track for you. Track 03 will be brimming with acronyms, work environments, optimization tips and command prompt tricks. So check out the Developer track if you want to learn more or simply want to learn what all that means.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-f0785fb2c95792e4f9077ae03333dd90-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f0785fb2c95792e4f9077ae03333dd90?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>EVAN MULLINS<\/strong> &#8211; Evan\u00a0blogs at circlecube.com and has even been known to dream in WordPress. With a background in digital media art, he now embraces the dark side and has found a strong creative outlet programming websites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-387c3953bd06646261614f724d997719-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/387c3953bd06646261614f724d997719?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>MICAH WOOD<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Micah currently works at Narwhal Digital as the team lead for enterprise WordPress projects and helps organize a local WordPress meetup group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-76c7e2ab6fa42c8c8f1871721c2f3500-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76c7e2ab6fa42c8c8f1871721c2f3500?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>COREY MAASS<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Corey is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and minimum viable everything. He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-c70b67eaaf35cfb70724e60b54b109a5-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c70b67eaaf35cfb70724e60b54b109a5?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>DAVID WOOD<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0David is a web developer with over 7 years of development experience. He has spent much of his career working with WordPress, writing everything from custom plugins and themes to highly specialized code for unique situations<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-37b5bd46ac68474eb28a0a3f1290a233-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/37b5bd46ac68474eb28a0a3f1290a233?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>PATRICK BATES<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Patrick began his Internet career with becoming his hometown\u2019s first ISP in 1995. He first became involved with WordPress in 2011, which then led to him co-founding Project Nami (a port of WordPress to SQL Server) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-b633dcee1f592202456408d8751925ef-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b633dcee1f592202456408d8751925ef?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>SAM BRASSEALE<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Sam is a Birmingham based web developer working at Cayenne Creative\u00a0managing\u00a0a team of developers who build client sites primarily using WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these developers will be hanging out all day. A few will even be helping out in the Happiness Bar. So be ready to ask questions or chat them about all things WordPress.<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\"> Buy your tickets today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wcorg-speaker-description\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past two days we introduced you to the speaker lineups for Track 01 and for Track 02. Track 03 for Developers is another rockstar roster full of highly skilled and technically-minded folks. If you\u2019re ready to dive deeper into WordPress and crack open what makes it tick, this is the track for you. Track &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/meet-the-speakers-for-the-developer-track\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the Speakers for the Developer Track<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15059817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,917150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-wordcamp-birmingham-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pEJ8-ce","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15059817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}