{"id":2057,"date":"2015-03-07T13:11:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.atlanta.wordcamp.org\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2015-03-03T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T06:29:10","slug":"getting-to-know-tom-mcfarlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlanta.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-tom-mcfarlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know Tom McFarlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom-McFarlin\"
\nTom McFarlin is a self-employed developer who works at Pressware<\/a> where he works with his team to build software and provide services for others.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s worked with companies such as Envato<\/a> serving as editor of Tuts+ Code<\/a>, WordPress.com where he sales WordPress Themes such as Mayer<\/a>, and worked as the technical editor on Smashing WordPress, Fourth Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also maintains a number of free plugins and tools including the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate<\/a>, and he blogs daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s not at his computer, you can usually find him playing music, hanging out with his wife, his two daughters, and his two dogs, running, reading, or catching up on movies or episodes of some of his favorite TV shows.<\/p>\n

WCATL 2015 Session \u2013 TL;DR: We\u2019re going to be talking about the reason for and the significance of coding standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sounds boring, right? Maybe.<\/p>\n

But how many times have you inherited code from someone else only to find yourself spending half the time on the project trying to figure out what was going on with the code.<\/p>\n

This is a point of frustration that developers have all felt at some point or another especially when inheriting projects from another agency or another group of programmers.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way! In fact, coding standards make it possible to actually minimize frustration both for us and our peers.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to talk about:<\/p>\n