(Responsive design + WordPress) && (AJAX + WordPress) == Awesome

Hey folks!

In August we'll have two amazing presenters: Trent Lapinski will be headlining with a talk on Responsive Design and Cole Geissinger will be leading things off with a talk on AJAX.

Responsive + WordPress

Trent Lapinski will present to us on Responsive Design and WordPress.

Trent is a WordPress Entrepreneur who has been using WordPress for 8 years and is a leading expert on Responsive WordPress Theme design. As the founder and CEO of CyberChimps (http://cyberchimps.com/), Trent owns and manages many of the most popular Responsive WordPress Themes including the super-popular and super-well-named "Responsive (http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive)" which has been downloaded over 700,000 times.

Trent will discuss Responsive design, what it is, how it works, and will talk about Responsive themes (including both CyberChimp responsive themes and other non-cyber-chimp themes -- this will not be a sales pitch for CyberChimps products).

You can find more of CyberChimp's FREE responsive themes on WordPress.org (http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive). CyberChimp's pro responsive themes are available for purchase (http://cyberchimps.com/).

AJAX + WordPress

Ajax is awesome. Do you know the "right" ways to use AJAX with WordPress? There are many ways to do it, but we'll take a look at using Ajax the WordPress way in your theme or plugins to improve your sites user experience and make sure your hard work doesn't break when WordPress gets upgraded.

Cole Geissinger (http://www.colegeissinger.com/) is a bad ass WordPress developer. At his day job, he is a Front/back-end web developer at Make Magazine and works on their WordPress properties. Cole is all about HTML5, Sass, jQuery, Backbone.js, unicorns, and sleeve tatts.

On top of his day job(s) Cole runs a meetup group in Sonoma County called WIMP (Web and Interactive media Professionals) where he organizes monthly meetups, yearly conferences, unconferences, workshops, and job listings for web professionals.

Cole's will do a short presentation in August to precede Trent, and then Cole will be back to present again later this year. Unless you all hate him, in which case we'll send him packing.

Looking forward to seeing you there!