{"id":923929,"date":"2014-04-10T11:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=923929"},"modified":"2014-04-05T22:49:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T02:49:20","slug":"speaker-spotlight-michael-corkum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-michael-corkum\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Michael Corkum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-102 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" id=\"grav-8646389d83bade75c4a845a7ca666bae-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8646389d83bade75c4a845a7ca666bae?s=162&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D102&amp;r=G\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>Mike Corkum is seasoned web developer with over 14 years of experience. Currently, he works at Carleton University where he and a small team manage 250+ WordPress sites. When he\u2019s not up to his neck in code or banging his head against his desk, he enjoys playing music and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cuweb\" target=\"_blank\">@cuweb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike is presenting:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/session\/git-down-to-business-an-introduction-to-version-control\/\">GIT Down to Business \u2013 An Introduction to Version Control<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) Why do you like using WordPress?<br \/>\nI like using WordPress because it provides a great foundation for a broad range of applications; from simple websites to complex web applications WordPress does the trick. I also am a big supporter of open-source development models. <\/p>\n<p>2) Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<br \/>\nI live and work in Ottawa and am involved in the local WordPress community. I want to see our community prosper, the best way to do that is to share as much information as possible.<\/p>\n<p>3) What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<br \/>\nVersion control saves websites. If just one person can avoid versioning disaster, i&#8217;ll be happy. My talk is meant as a simple introduction and to prove even beginners can use version control. <\/p>\n<p>4) What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a toss up between WP-CLI which makes my life super easy and HyperDB which allows our high-traffic sites to be super fast and efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Corkum is seasoned web developer with over 14 years of experience. Currently, he works at Carleton University where he and a small team manage 250+ WordPress sites. When he\u2019s not up to his neck in code or banging his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-michael-corkum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Michael Corkum<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"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":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923945,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923929\/revisions\/923945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}