Production Ready WordPress – #WPLDN

I had an awesome time last night speaking about Continuous Integration with Codeship , Github and dependency management to a packed house in London. I’m grateful for the invitation from the #WPLDN team to help kick off the year’s first meetup, which I learned was also a milestone, being the 70th time the meetup has happened over the past 5 year. It was a great event and a number of people asked for the deck to review, which I’ve uploaded to Slideshare. Hopefully this was an inspiring talk that opened up some new options for getting code from development to … Continued

I’m Speaking at the WordPress London Meetup – Jan 25th, 2018

It is great to be back in the office after a relaxing weekend at home. This week I’m heading over to City, University of London to speak at the first #WPLDN meetup of the year on January 25th. I’ve been looking forward to this for a few days now and will be talking about how to use a Continuous Integration(CI) tools like Codeship to deploy code to WP Engine (or any other host that supports Git). CI tools allow developers to have more control of what happens after code is successfully pushed to a repository. During the deployment process, additional … Continued

Kicking Off 2018 with a Bang

I took a relaxing break away from home in India over the December holidays after a full-throttle few months at the tail end of last year. When I returned to the office something BIG had happened. An absolute game changer. WP Engine had secured a $250M investment from leading global technology investor, Silver Lake. With that in mind, the new year has started off with a bang and there is an air of positivity and excitement in the office and around the company. I’m looking forward to another amazing year and here’s what’s on my mind as I look ahead. … Continued

Uprise Festival 2017

I’m absolutely honored to be taking part in the Uprise Festival as a Mentor on October 26th in Dublin. Uprise is billed as the SXSW of Europe and will attract 15,000 entrepreneurs, startups, investors and technologists under a single roof in the heart of the city. As a Mentor, I’ll be working with participants to help them learn more about WordPress and grow their business. It will be an exciting event and I’m really looking forward to being there. I’ve even got my own profile page on the Uprise Festival website. Connect with if you are attending!

I’m Speaking at WordCamp Manchester 2017

I’m extremely happy to report that I’ll be traveling up north for WordCamp Manchester 2017 on October 28th. This will be my second time attending the annual event and I’m honored to be speaking about Deployment and Continuous Integration. I’m really looking forward to attending after a nice quiet summer break with no speaking engagements. It will be great to break the silence and see you all again at WordCamp. Here’s more details about what I’m going to be talking about. Production-ready WordPress: Deploy your code using version control and continuous integration It is common practice to move code through … Continued