Last weekend, WP Engine flew up to the mile-high city to spend the weekend with the good folks in the Denver WordPress Community. It felt like going home for me, since I grew up in the Rockies and have been in “exile” from them living in Texas for the last few years. Mike Van Winkle, one of our lead developers, also flew in from NorCal to meet me in Denver. We made the ridiculously long drive in from the Denver airport to Denver itself (seriously, that’s a long drive) before the speakers dinner.
That night, we met the speakers and other sponsors to eat Mexican food. The restaurant of course had plenty of Hatch Green Chiles on the menu. A lot of folks from Automattic were in attendance, including Evan Solomon, Karen Arnold, Deborah Beckett, and the organizer for the weekend, Kevin Conboy, as well as Martin Remy, and then one of the anchors of the Denver WordPress scene, Alex King.
After dinner, we had the opportunity to take everyone out for some of Denver’s fantastic micro-brews. Alex introduced me to some of the best ales that I’ve ever had. Rich Staats came out with his team from Secret Stache Media to hang out as well.
At the WordCamp, Mike debuted his talk on .Git for WordPress Developers. The talk is another step in our goal to bring the best practices of version control into the mainstream of the WordPress Community. Whether folks are using our integration of Git-Push, or SVN, we’re happy. We believe that bringing version control to WordPress will make it easier for WordPress to be accepted at larger and larger projects for developers at the agency and enterprise levels.
You can grab the slides for all the talks here.
As always, we want to thank the organizers and the volunteers for getting the WordCamp organized. We are always the beneficiaries of months of planning before a WordCamp, and the Denver volunteers were stellar. A big thank you from team WP Engine.
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