{"id":711,"date":"2011-04-25T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.reno.wordcamp.org\/?p=711"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:28:05","slug":"speaker-feature-sterling-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-feature-sterling-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Feature: Sterling Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll be introducing everyone to our wonderful lineup of speakers. First up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sterlo\">Sterling Hamilton<\/a>, Senior Web Developer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dealertrend.com\">Dealertrend, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b80742b6d859d848f839c270c2543f3c?size=140\" alt=\"Sterling Hamilton - Reno Tahoe WordCamp speaker\" class=\"alignleft\" \/> Hailing from Las Vegas but now a Reno resident, Sterling&#8217;s been developing websites and web applications for the last 15 years.  While at Dealertrend, Sterling has worked on a rapid development WordPress theme framework and a few WordPress plugins. He likes to skydive and contribute to Open Source projects in his spare time, but presumably not at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s WordCamp, Sterling will be teaching us about the power and benefits of using version control systems like <a href=\"http:\/\/git-scm.com\/\">GIT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/subversion.apache.org\/\">Subversion<\/a> to track your WordPress code and why version control may just save your life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So there you are, writing the next great thing in your favorite coffee shop and you might be by yourself, or maybe you and a couple of developers have decided to team up.<\/p>\n<p>Why should you have to bother with things like version control? These days, isn&#8217;t it simple enough to just make the changes to your source code carefully and if you have to talk to\u00a0another developer, just yell across the room. It&#8217;s not that complicated right?<\/p>\n<p>This session will attempt to convince you that there are many important, life saving and jaw droppingly\u00a0awesome reasons why you should be using version control. Whether you&#8217;re a lone developer, a small team, or an enterprise company.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be going over the basics of version control and how you can start new projects with it, and how you can get your existing projects using it. We&#8217;ll be covering Subversion and GIT. Subversion is what WordPress is built upon, and GIT is what I believe is the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sterling&#8217;s session &#8220;WordPress Development: Tracking your code with Version Control&#8221; will be at 11:30am on the Design &#038; Development track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll be introducing everyone to our wonderful lineup of speakers. First up: Sterling Hamilton, Senior Web Developer for Dealertrend, Inc. Hailing from Las Vegas but now a Reno resident, Sterling&#8217;s been developing websites and web &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-feature-sterling-hamilton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Feature: Sterling Hamilton<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1n5pK-bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}