Speaker Feature: Keith Casey

Keith Casey says he likes to break stuff, but only because it helps him understand good code vs. bad code all the better. Keith is a PHP dev (aka chief Stuff Breaker) for Blue Parabola. In his spare time, he is the Project Lead for web2project, works to build and support the Austin PHP and Flash communities, and blogs regularly on technology and random geekery at http://CaseySoftware.com/blog and http://phparch.com/

In his presentation “Integrating with WordPress”, Keith will be teaching us how to get our WordPress websites to play nice with other APIs and web apps:

As more and more companies dive into WordPress for their public sites, we end up with yet another application to track. Even worse, our users have yet another username and password to remember. It’s annoying at best and frustrating at worst.

Coming from the PHP world, we know how to build application, scale them to incredible heights, and generally get them to play nice, so what if we could get the systems to interact and share credentials and functionality instead? Even without Single Sign On or embedding WordPress into our applications, there are lots of things we can do to make our users’ lives easier. This session will be a walk through of integrating one application with WordPress’ authentication and API.