{"id":241728,"date":"2014-11-10T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241728"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:29:20","slug":"featured-speaker-dara-skolnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-dara-skolnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Dara Skolnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/29a35943b2f1e3174211c0a7e0f35e18?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Dara, an independent web designer and front-end developer from Toronto. I\u2019ve worked at a number of places from large organizations to small agencies, and now I run my own small (as in, one person) business. I\u2019ve been creating websites professionally for many years, and well over 3\/4 of them are in WordPress! When I\u2019m not designing and coding client sites you can sometimes find me leading Ladies Learning Code workshops, mentoring at HackerYou, or showing up at various meetups around the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dara Skolnick\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/dara-skolnick\/\">View Dara&#8217;s speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation:\u00a0<a title=\"Levelling up your development workflow\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/levelling-up-your-development-workflow\/\">Levelling up your development workflow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About a year ago I realized that my WordPress development workflow wasn\u2019t nearly as efficient as it could have been, so I took steps to make it far better, and I think that sharing what I learned would be really useful for other developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Dara, an independent web designer and front-end developer from Toronto. I\u2019ve worked at a number of places from large organizations to small agencies, and now I run my own small (as in, one person) business. I\u2019ve been creating websites professionally for many years, and well over 3\/4 of them are in WordPress! When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-dara-skolnick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: Dara Skolnick<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241731,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241728\/revisions\/241731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}