Sponsor Spotlight: Simplistics Web Design Inc.

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

Simplistics Web DesignWhat is Simplistics Web Design?

“Simplistics is a Toronto-based company that builds smart, sophisticated website solutions . We pride ourselves on providing our clients with straight talk and a simplified process – hence our name.

Our passion and expertise are evident in our work. We apply our insights to our client’s vision to craft a WordPress site that leverages sensational visuals and cutting-edge functionality to achieve their web goals.”

Why WordPress?

“Our favorite thing about WordPress is the Plugins. Normally, it would take months to build a complex and fully featured website. However the ability to leverage the Plugin community has made that a snap. There’s a Plugin for just about everything – literally.”

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Featured Speaker: Daniel Pataki

“I am a developer at heart, specializing mostly in WordPress. I am the editor of the WordPress section on Smashing Magazine and I write for other awesome places like WPMU DEV, Tuts+ and others. When not coding or writing you’ll find me playing board games, playing some guitar or running with my dog.”

Presentation: Learning About REST APIs through the WordPress HTTP API

“I always found API’s confusing because I didn’t understand all the calls and responses, how to make them, cURL, etc… Yuck! One day I spent 20 minutes learning about how HTTP works and it all became clear in an instant and I realized how powerful it can be!” Continue reading →

Featured Speaker: Christine McGlade

Christine began her career in media as a TV Director and Producer before moving into Technology and Digital Media in 2000. As Director of Interactive at TVO for 9 years, Christine managed two large, database driven websites and Executive-Produced over a dozen Transmedia projects, serious games, and public education campaigns.

In 2012 she founded a User Experience Design and Content Strategy Consultancy in Toronto, working primarily with public service, education, and media organizations, and mostly in WordPress with a little Drupal and Ruby thrown in here and there.

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Sponsor Spotlight: Slicejack

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

SlicejackWhat is Slicejack?

“Slicejack: WordPress Development Services for Design and Marketing Agencies. WordPress is our favorite platform for developing websites and we created a streamlined development service for it. We develop a fast, scalable and secure solution for your company website, blog and e-commerce site. It is bundled with our HTML services that get you from design to website in a blink of an eye.”

Why WordPress?

“Our favorite thing about WordPress is the community. We have met so many amazing people online and offline that are somehow connected to WordPress.”

Featured Speaker: Conrad Hall

“I’m a retired carpenter, so if I can make WordPress work anybody can. I started using WordPress in 2008, and have since built dozens of sites for myself, friends and clients. I built a podcast to 5,000 downloads/week, and I’ve gotten a start on learning to code.

I like everything that happens outdoors – especially hiking and camping. My favorite color is blue, and I have penchant for raisin tea biscuits. I also just got a cat – he was rescued from an apartment upstairs. He’s a little kooky, so we’re a good fit, and he seems to think my toes are toys.”

Presentation: 4 Step User’s Guide from Local Installation to Live Server

“Developers, coders and programmers drove me nuts with all the tools they said were necessary AND the incredible learning curve required to use those tools. Then I found a quick, simple, easy solution on Bitnami that anybody can use.” Continue reading →

Sponsor Spotlight: Carbon60

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

Carbon60What is Carbon60?

“To deliver your WordPress web property without fail, Carbon60 provides a white glove level of service to support the entire WordPress development and delivery life-cycle, hosted within our Tier 3 grade Canadian Cloud data centres.

Our WordPress sandbox allows design/development teams to create new WordPress development environments on-demand while an integrated code management service provides a secure place to manage code changes. Sites are then staged for testing using Carbon60’s integrated security and performance testing tools.

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