{"id":334422,"date":"2013-10-01T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=334422"},"modified":"2013-10-01T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:05:15","slug":"featured-speaker-paul-bearne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/featured-speaker-paul-bearne\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Paul Bearne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Paul is a forward thinking developer, with over eight years experience in an international team.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has in-depth knowledge of commercial & IT issues. Accustomed to delivering state of the art, Ajax based internet business applications for a diverse audience.<\/p>\n

Delivering complete solutions, using WordPress as a CMS platform, that create an experience that delights and rewards the user whilst effectively meeting business needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation:\u00a0How to Set Up a Vagrant Development System<\/h3>\n

Vagrant<\/a> is a tool to create and manage local virtual machines that provide local development web servers.<\/p>\n

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What do you want people to learn from your presentation?<\/h3>\n

What Vagrant is and why it is better than local LAMP\/ WAMP or FTPing to remote web servers for developing.<\/p>\n

The basics of the how to setup and configure Vagrant.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?<\/h3>\n

I started with WordPress when the company I was working for wanted an internal blogging site and WordPress was the best option.<\/p>\n

So my first WordPress install WPMU 2.3 running on IIS7 with several hundred blogs. I found I liked the hook and filter method of extending and its open-source ethos.<\/p>\n

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n

I always learn some new tricks or techniques and I get to meet my WordPress peers, some of whom are becoming old friends.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak?<\/h3>\n

It’s the best way to be part of the community and to give something back. \u00a0Even though I still have lots yet to learn, I hope I can help others by passing on some of the knowledge I’ve gained so far.<\/p>\n

What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?<\/h3>\n

Both WordPress Multilingual Plugin (WPML)<\/a> and WooCommerce<\/a> have been a pleasure to use and extend in recent projects as both are great examples of how to create good WordPress code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul is a forward thinking developer, with over eight years experience in an international team. He has in-depth knowledge of commercial & IT issues. Accustomed to delivering state of the art, Ajax based internet business applications for a diverse audience. Delivering complete solutions, using WordPress as a CMS platform, that create an experience that delights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[18001],"tags":[168066],"class_list":["post-334422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker","tag-paul-bearne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334425,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422\/revisions\/334425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}