John is a hacker, writer, and lover of all things 8-bit. His first project of note was a “Choose Your Own Adventure” quest in BASIC when he was 11. He grew up (a bit) and has since worked as an engineer and executive for Fortune 50 companies and has exited a handful of bootstrapped and VC-funded startups.

He serves as partner and the head of people development and growth at The Iron Yard. At night he works on his small app called Desk.

WCATL 2015 Session – Spinach in Your Teeth? Rapid Fire Website Critiques
Panel Presentation with Judi Knight, Jenny Munn and David Laietta

Join us and find out best practices for home page content and design. If you’d like to get some feedback, this is the place for you. Be prepared to give us your website URL and we will tell you like it is!

Micah is a consultant and web developer from Atlanta, GA who is committed to continuously improving his understanding of WordPress and sharing his insights with the greater WordPress community. He has worked on WordPress projects for brands like Dell, Orkin and Coca-Cola and is a Co-Organizer of the Atlanta WordPress Coder’s Guild and an Assistant Organizer of the WordPress Gwinnett meetup groups. Micah is an avid WordPress plugin developer and is a frequent speaker at various WordCamps across the southeast. He also occasionally blogs about WordPress and other web development topics.

WCATL 2015 Session – The WordPress IDE: PHPStorm

PhpStorm is a cross-platform, IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that delivers a deep integration with WordPress. Come learn how to:

• Navigate WordPress core like a pro
• Automatically format your code according to WordPress coding standards
• Automatically scan your code for issues
• Utilize advanced debugging capabilities
• Integrate with tools like Git, Vagrant, Composer, PHPUnit and WP-CLI
• Easily Test REST APIs
• Directly integrate with your bug tracking system