Brian has worked as a web developer at Bentley Hoke, a web development consultancy in Syracuse, New York, since 2000; he has worked extensively in WordPress for a number of years now. Brian finds that more and more of his work involves extending and customizing WordPress. He is particularly intrigued by the combination of client-side technologies like jQuery with server-side feeds in XML or JSON to enhance the user experience, both on the same WordPress installation and between foreign sites.

He presented a talk (“jQuery and WordPress“) at WordCamp Montreal. The chance to present to his peers, to engage in discussion about topics that he works on daily, and to attend others’ presentations were all valuable professional development opportunities – and, he hopes his talk offered some useful ideas for others.