Archive for the 'Presentation' Category

Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems

« 22 July 2007 | 12:01 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

 Originally titled Iterative Design in Agile Environments, it seems that they moved with the feelings, or questions of the original topic to something that people want to grab on to.
She is Co-Founder of SlideShare.net.
Her slideshow -> http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/social-design-wordcamp



HyperDB and High Performance WordPress PLUS

« 22 July 2007 | 11:05 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

Barry a large race fan, thought of an indy car first off when thinking of his topic.
The Problem
Serve as many users as possible with a reasonable amount of resources.
Un-tuned LAMP Stack

Linux Apache 2, PHP4 or 5, MySQL 4. or 5.0
8 requests/sec
691,2000 pageviews/day
Enough for > 99% WP installations



Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers

« 21 July 2007 | 18:19 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 24 Comments »

Shows an example of a Web Owner who thinks that Google hates his website.
“weak magnets are lose.” - this guy claims he’s being oppressed by Google. Censorship!
If you view source on the page you find a text area full of just text. Hundreds of words, in a 20 pixel box.



Designing the Obvious

« 21 July 2007 | 17:00 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 4 Comments »

Total Improved Presentation. through away planned, and wrote a new one.
What makes an obvious blog?
Striping out features
Reducing form elements to focus a page.
But they don’t relate to blogs
Wore the coat, so he’s a professional speaker….
But the two main ideas for blogs

Building only what’s necessary
Servicing the important elements



Getting Involved with WordPress

« 21 July 2007 | 15:53 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 2 Comments »

Lloyd Budd and Mark Jaquith are two Open Source veterans who will be covering how you can pitch in with various aspects of WordPress.org whether or not you can spell PHP. WordPress is a product of the hundreds of people who have pitched in before you, so if you’ve considered giving back to the community [...]