When creating a solution for a problem it can be challenging to put all the pieces together, this presentation will showcase how implementation of some design patterns helped overcome this hurdle.
Do you want to set your website project up for success? Do you want to avoid any costly surprises along the way?
Of course, you do.
A thorough, focused web specification document will keep your web project running smoothly and, most importantly, will give you the best to chance of delivering a project that meets the goals of your visitors and your business.
In this talk, Mark will outline the key parts of an effective website specification and why they’re important.
Building an admin area as a Single Page Application requires a different approach than the traditional route. In this talk Andrew explains some of the architectural and security solutions employed in building a large admin area built with Vue.js and backed with a Laravel API.
Artist makers are embracing the opportunities offered by single-board microcontrollers. David will outline some of his experiments with particular emphasis on the ESP8266 wi-fi board.
Join us for an evening of WordPress on Thursday 19th November at Bean enCounter. We have free food and a drink waiting! We’ll be there from 6pm with talks starting at 7pm.
The nearest car park is North Walls and parking in Stafford is free after 6pm. The car park is open 24/7, so no worries about getting locked in!
Lightning talks
We’ve included a summary of the talks below and we’ll update the page with coverage (slides/videos) as it comes in.
WordPress is a flexible platform to build upon. In my talk we’ll take a flying look at some of the core WordPress concepts which have made it such a widely used platform.
An introduction to woocommerce. an ecommerce plugin for WordPress that powers over 30% of the eCommerce stores online. Hooking into WordPress core functionality. I will give you a brief overview of its history and features.
Ever wondered how or even why you might use WordPress Multisite? Jonny will talk us through a couple of his recent real-world WordPress Multisite projects that illustrate some of the cool things you can do with this little-used feature of WordPress.
Copywriting crash course: How to beat most professional copywriters
Karl is a scientist with a PhD from Cambridge University. He is the Chairman and co-founder of Conversion Rate Experts (CRE), an international consultancy that scientifically optimizes the profitability of web businesses. CRE’s client portfolio includes Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Lloyds Banking Group, GQ, and Sony.
In this talk, Karl will reveal a highly effective copywriting formula that you can use to sell anything—your clients’ services, your company’s services or yourself (i.e. in your CV, not on eBay).
Thanks to everyone who came along last Thursday, we had a great turnout of around 40 people! Thank you to our sponsors (Campaign Monitor, Connect Group and iWeb) and of course Bean enCounter and their team for the fantastic food and drink. The evening was hosted by Natasha and we had four great lightning talks.
Myself and the rest of the organising team would like to thank everyone for their overwhelmingly positive feedback, including a number of fantasticblog posts.
Lightning talks
We’ve included a summary of the talks below and we’ll update the page with coverage (slides/videos) as it comes in.
Web maps have changed a lot since they first appeared in web browsers in 1993. Currently WebGL (a web graphics library) is the latest trend in plugin-less 2D and 3D web graphics. The talk will examine if web maps will move away from traditional methods to this new approach.
Thymeleaf is a relatively new Java view layer technology which can be used as an alternative to JSP, and lets you code your view layer using “vanilla” HTML, which you can then annotate with custom HTML5 data attributes which tell Thymeleaf how to map your back-end data model onto your HTML. Thymesheet takes this one step further, taking a completely clean HTML file, and mapping the back-end data model onto it using CSS3 selectors. Best of all, Thymesheet lets you do test-driven development (TDD) so you can test every aspect of mapping your Java object model onto your HTML – and, even more crucially, be notified by a failed test when something changes in the HTML that you need to take account of.
ACTIVATE AGILE! A newbie’s guide to Agile (from a newbie’s perspective)
Over the years I have learnt a lot, but how I have learnt has stayed the same.
We’ll be back!
We raffled off a number of prizes on the night, including a number of books, a JetBrains licence, a GitHub micro plan and finally, a French press with a bag of coffee courtesy of Bean enCounter. Congratulations to our raffle winners!
We’d also like to thank our sponsors, Campaign Monitor, Connect Group and iWeb. Without getting too emotional… our sponsors continue to show a genuine commitment to supporting our event and the local web community. With their support we’ve been able to put on a number of fantastic evenings and build what I feel is an inclusive, welcoming and relaxed atmosphere.
We’ll be back in March with a slight twist. We’re sticking with the social/four lightning talks format. However, we’re going with a show and tell theme. So if you have a piece of work you’re especially proud of, or perhaps a project which presented a number of challenges. We would love for you to share your experience. Get in touch and we’ll get you a slot booked in.
Join our mailing list and we’ll keep you updated on our upcoming events. We’ll see you in March!
A massive thanks to everyone who came along to the second Staffs Web Meetup. We just about managed to all squeeze in upstairs at Bean enCounter with a turnout of around 45 people!
We hosted five brilliant lightning talks and our wonderful host, Natasha did a great job of keeping the event flowing smoothly.
Lightning talks
We’ve included a summary of the talks below and we’ll update the page with coverage (slides/videos) as it comes in.
Creating manageable code is key to the success of any project. CSS pre-processors are awesome but with BEM as it’s partner in crime you have a powerful combination for front end development.
A talk about my experience of community, using the Umbraco community as a case study.
This talk is aimed at everyone, despite my experience coming from Umbraco and also being a “lone wolf” developer.
By the end of it, I hope to have inspired people to think about how they can get involved in their own dev group community or start one if they can’t already find one.
It’s reasonable to assume that anything on the Internet is under attack all of the time. I’ll show some numbers about how bad the problem is, what you can do to (try to) protect yourself, and how to deal with the inevitable.
An amazing cup of coffee emphasises natural sweetness, brightness, flavours and mouth texture within bean, while minimizing negative attributes such as bitterness or sourness. In order to get amazing coffee, the coffee needs to be loved at all stages from the farmer, miller, importer, roaster and the barista. As a home barista, I will explain on how to buy, store, grind and brew amazing coffee at home.
We’ll be back!
A big thanks to our sponsor Campaign Monitor for generously buying everyone a drink. We’d also like to thank O’Reilly Media and Five Simple Steps for sending us the fantastic raffle prizes.
We’ll be back in January for another action-packed evening of web fun. We’re hosting a number of guest speakers. Let us know your coming, sign up on Lanyrd.
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