{"id":650437,"date":"2014-09-24T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.sf.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=650437"},"modified":"2014-10-15T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:36:02","slug":"lightning-talks-new-to-wordpress-development","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/session\/lightning-talks-new-to-wordpress-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Talks: New to WordPress Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Art of N00b: Tips for beginners in the world of WordPress<\/h3>\n<p><em>Mickey Kay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New to the world of WordPress? Wondering how best to jump in? Intimidated by all the stuff you &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221;? Come join the party for an action-packed flash talk covering LOADS of goodies including: simple steps to getting involved, experience-based insights for developing your skills, plenty of useful resources for your bookmarks tab, and lots more. The talk will also cover some of my own adventures in WordPress land, including some of the projects, plugins, and people I&#8217;ve been involved with. So if you&#8217;re newer to the WordPress community and want to up your game (build a plugin, code a theme, get involved, etc), come join us!<\/p>\n<h3>Principles of Debugging<\/h3>\n<p><em>Jenny Wong<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As any web developer will know, love it or hate it, we all need to debug at some point. When your role involves working with multiple languages and development environments, it can be very hard to know where to begin.<\/p>\n<p>During this talk, Jenny will be running though some basic debugging rules which will make debugging that little bit easier. 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Intimidated by all the stuff you &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221;? 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