Kevin is a User Experience Developer with 5+ years of experience working in the web development industry. He currently works for a Westboro based web design/development agency called Industrial and have worked with them for nearly his entire career. He has worked with many different tech stacks but Kevin focus primarily on WordPress and Drupal based projects.
He have a passion for clean code and developing for inclusivity. This means following accessibility standards set by WCAG 2.0 and optimizing code to be accessed from any device.
Kevin will be talking at 11:00am on Saturday, July 13th in the Manotick room. His talk is entitled, Building for the future: Developing a maintainable code base.
Websites are a significant investment. With the rate at which technology advances websites need to be kept up to date in order to stay relevant. Ensuring that your codebase is as easily maintainable as possible is critical in both saving time and money.
Some of the points that will be talked about:
– Managing core and plugin updates with composer
– Using a task-runner to compile assets
– Organizing your theme using partials and includes
– Impactful code commenting