Here are 3 of the 6 total Designer / Developer Speakers
Kevin Dees
About Kevin
For over a decade Kevin has helped businesses win online and helped thousands of professionals master the web industry. He have done this through podcasting for SitePoint, speaking for WordCamp, creating the WordPress framework TypeRocket, and executing digital strategies as CEO of Robojuice.
Title: Coding Gutenberg Blocks
In this talk Kevin will cover what Gutenberg blocks are, how to start programming them, and answer questions like “Is Gutenberg really the future of WordPress?”
Evan Mullins
About Evan
Evan Mullins uses WordPress daily at the office as well as for his own projects. He is currently Lead Web Developer at Brown Bag Marketing, an integrated marketing agency in Atlanta. He blogs at circlecube.com and has even been known to dream in WordPress. With a background in digital media art, he now embraces the dark side and has found a strong creative outlet programming websites. Evan loves the problem solving aspect of web development and shines at harnessing WordPress as a true CMS & making interactive designs – interactive. He strives to make the web a prettier, more pleasant and all-around better place for you & your grandma. Outside of work, Evan is a dedicated husband, father of four and soccer coach who loves rock music, audiobooks, chocolate and good pizza.
Title: Beware the dark side, or an Intro to Development
WordPress the CMS, meets the Modular Web. Blocks in WordPress – how did we get here? We’ll discuss industry trends that brought us here, how Gutenberg has evolved and what it means to the CMS. Let’s explore how to use WordPress to manage site content using Gutenberg blocks, even custom blocks. We’ll see what this does for our development process and programming as well for our content management via the admin. With this “everything is a block” paradigm shift, our workflows improve, our websites improve and our very well-being improves.
Dan Robert
About Dan
Dan is a front-end developer on Team 51 at Automattic, Inc. – the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Gravatar, and a bunch of other cool products that you may have seen around the web. I have been with Automattic for 3 years. Prior to that, he had worked as a front-end developer for several years at a few different digital agencies, while living out in San Diego.
Title: Getting Started with CSS Grid
CSS Grid Layout is a powerful system available in CSS, which simplifies existing patterns and adds new possibilities for layout methods in our websites and applications. It is a 2-dimensional system, meaning it can handle both columns and rows. This talk will cover an introduction of the CSS Grid Layout specification and follow up with some practical examples of how we can begin to use it in production today.
