{"id":866,"date":"2011-10-20T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/?p=866"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T01:56:31","slug":"speaker-spotlight-dave-konopka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-dave-konopka\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Dave Konopka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davekonopka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Konopka<\/a>\u00a0is a full stack web developer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weworkinphilly.com\/people\/dave-konopka\" target=\"_blank\">based in Philly<\/a>\u00a0who loves hacking on backend and frontend code. He knows his way around WordPress custom plugins and themes, BuddyPress community sites, and Multisite installations. Dave also organizes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philly.buildguild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build Guild Philly<\/a>, a monthly social meetup for web nerds who enjoy adult beverages. You can find him on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davekonopka\" target=\"_blank\">@davekonopka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave will be giving a presentation in the Designer Track titled:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/session\/get-control-of-wordpress-with-version-control\/\">Get control of WP with version control<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you speaking about at WordCamp Philly?<\/strong><br \/>\nHow to make the most of source code revision control tools like Subversion and Git for WordPress projects, whether you&#8217;re setting up sites or developing custom themes and plugins.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your favorite thing about the city of Philadelphia?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love the contrast of all the fun restaurants, bars, and urban scenery alongside all the green outdoors space. That and all six Rocky movies.<br \/>\n<strong>Why do you love WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nUsability. WordPress is one of the few pieces of web software that non-tech-folk use and love immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Konopka\u00a0is a full stack web developer\u00a0based in Philly\u00a0who loves hacking on backend and frontend code. He knows his way around WordPress custom plugins and themes, BuddyPress community sites, and Multisite installations. Dave also organizes\u00a0Build Guild Philly, a monthly social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-dave-konopka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Dave Konopka<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheN0r-dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/811778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}