Presenters Waylon Baumgardner – California Baptist University Location: Pavilion Ballroom West Version control has become increasingly important as websites have matured into complex, data-driven applications. The execution of a version control solution, especially with smaller teams, can be daunting. This presentation is meant to provide a brief overview of the various reasons for version control, […]

Presenters Curtiss Grymala – University of Mary Washington Location: Skyline III You’ve probably read the critiques about WordPress: “It’s a blogging tool,” “It’s not secure,” “It’s only for people who don’t know how to code,” and “It’s free, so it must be full of bugs.” The reality is WordPress has grown into a mature, full-featured […]

This is an extension of my 2014 High Ed Web presentation: WordPress and Beer Sometimes you need to store a bit of data that won’t fix in a post type. For our calculator: each recipe is a post, but we also have to store the list of ingredients for the recipe. This is a many-to […]

Storing your application data in WP is really convenient, but querying it all can take a lot of overhead. There are many ways to cache data, but my preference is to create a “hard cache” – this means that the data is simply written to a file each time something is changed. Luckily WordPress makes […]

This is an extension of my 2014 High Ed Web presentation: WordPress and Beer Custom fields In our example, each of the brewing ingredients is stored a custom post type. There is also a bunch of data that needs to be associated with each ingredient – this is where the custom fields come into play. […]

This is an extension of my 2014 High Ed Web presentation: WordPress and Beer Custom post types In WordPress everything is a post (well… almost everything). Custom post types are a convenient way to store all of your data needed for the application. Here we have created post types for: Grains, hops, yeasts, water, styles […]

WordPress is an incredible platform for building full-featured, customized web applications. Every beer on the planet is made from the same four ingredients: hops, water, barley and yeast. Similarly, WordPress is built around a small feature set (posts, pages, media and tags), but from these you can build anything from a single blog to a […]

Speaker: Lynne d Johnson Augmented reality (AR) has slowly proven its merit on smartphones, with apps enabling people to layer information and graphics over a view of their real world. But it’s the technology’s ability to provide utility in real-world experiences that will bring it front and center. That’s why AR is becoming a hot […]

Speaker: Mara Zepeda Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp: these social media platforms and many others put a user’s persona at the center of, or on equal footing with, the content a user generates. The sites become glorified directories of outdated, irrelevant information. As users, we waste time populating fields and indicating preferences. One example of a platform […]

Speaker: D. Denenge Akpem What is Afro-Futurism? It’s a creative theory, rooted in history and African cosmologies. Afro-Futurism uses pieces of the past, both technological and analog, to design the future. As an engaged creative practice, it moves people to consider different possibilities for themselves, their visual design, and their communities. Afro-Futurism rethinks and remixes […]