2010

Seattle WordPress Meetup

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The Seattle WordPress community is thriving in recent months with the launch of the Seattle WordPress Meetup. The meetup began in the summer of 2010 as a place for anyone in the Seattle area.

People who attend this meetup and users group include business people, consultants, designers, developers, software engineers, and system administrators. We cover a variety of topics including theming, plugin development, WordPress tips & tricks, and SEO.

I developed and launched the Seattle WordPress Meetup site: wpseattle.com.

The site is powered by a combination of powerful tools:

With these tools, we hope to provide valuable resources and information to the community as well as being a demonstration of the capabilities of WordPress as a content management system, blogging platform, and social networking tool.

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jQuery Hack Attack in Seattle — Notes

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Today, Amazon hosted a jQuery Hack Attack in Seattle. John Resig, jQuery creator, provided the keynote presentation and contributed one of the open talks. Below, I include notes on the keynote regarding jQuery mobile browser suppoort and the three sessions I attended.

John Resig ~ “I want to give developers the smallest toolset they need to build the best sites possible.”

jQuery Mobile: Notes from John Resig’s Talk

Mobile JavaScript gains increasing importance as more and more smartphones with JavaScript support are shipped to consumers. jQuery intends to support the most popular mobile web browsers and devices.

One difficulty when defining what browsers and devices to support is gathering data regarding mobile browser marketshare and version information. Large sites such as Yahoo! have this information, but have not released it to the public. Typically, these sites see the statistics as a competitive advantage and as a result have not released the data to the public.

Resig currently gathers data regarding mobile browsers from StatCounter (web statics gathered from over 1 billion pageviews) and Gartner (device sales statistics).
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