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Because it’s all about me

Dane — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:49:04 +0000

OurPDX mentioned my session at Wordcamp saying:

“3:00 – Dane Hesseldahl from Nemo on custom plugin development: Live coding during your presentation is the final frontier, and Dane clearly fears no one. Who else do you know who can write SQL queries while talking about securing text fields AND making fancy hand puppet shadows, all without spilling a drop?”

REVIEW OF MY WORDCAMP SESSION

Dane — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:41:12 +0000

from superfancy’s roundup of Wordcamp Portland:

“Next was the session I was most jazzed about… “Extending your Blog through Custom Plug-in Development.” This cat named Dane Hesseldahl was the presenter. While waiting for the session to begin I took a look at his site and I almost peed my pants. Holy shit! This dude is super talented… both as a designer and a developer – which is exactly what I want to be when I grow up. You’ve got to check out his site and see his portfolio… totally drool-worthy.”

“Dane led us through all the essential aspects of WP plugin creation from initial idea to execution to helpful documentation available at the WP Codex to help if you get stuck. My ten dollar admission was worth it for this session alone. Dane posted his Keynote presentation as well as the files we worked through on his site. I really wished I would’ve talked to this dude but alas it was time for me to go.”

WORDCAMP PORTLAND

Dane — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:45:59 +0000

OK… so let’s talk about what I learned this weekend at Wordcamp Portland.

1. Aaron Hockley and the OurPDX crew know how to put on a conference. They all worked really hard and hosted a stellar event. My wholehearted thanks goes out to them for putting this together in their spare time, and for allowing me to speak.

2. Writing a conference presentation takes longer than you think. A LOT LONGER than you think. Next time I speak I will not procrastinate so heavily. I spent most of the day in the back trying to finish my presentation.

3. When out in the world… always keep your eyes on your sunglasses. I lost+found them at least twice throughout the day.

4. I’ve got to get better at “networking.” These events are sort of excruciating for me, because – I’m just no good and meeting and talking to people, in fact I picked a career in software specifically because of the low amounts of human to human interaction.

5. Take a pack of gum. You’re going to by away from home all day dummy, gum is an absolute must.

6. Klonopin.

7. Must get involved with the planning for next year, in terms of content for the serious Wordpress developer there was nothing. I would like to see something of a traditional track-based conference agenda representing different needs.

8. There is no need to evangelize something that people have paid money and gotten out of bed early on a Saturday morning for.

9. Code will fail when you are on stage. Don’t freak out.

10. There is, by and large, less snark in the Portland tech-scene than anywhere else in the world. This may be it’s biggest asset, or it’s greatest weakness.

11. Sometimes bloggers freak me out.

I’M SPEAKING AT WORDCAMP PDX

Dane — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:08:52 +0000

I am speaking this Saturday September 27th @ WordCamp Portland.

I’ll be talking about extending the functionality of Wordpress by writing custom plug-ins, and creating your own administration menus & functionality.

Registration is still open but they’re capping attendence at 150, and I hear that they’re pretty close – so if you wanna go register now.