Talks
Accelerating Your Client Work By Automating Boilerplate
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelAvoiding the Rex - Using PWA to Overcome Connectivity Issues
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelBeing a PHP Developer in a WordPress Market
40-minute seminar talk at beginner levelBuilding a Realtime Status Page using the Combined Power of Gutenberg and Firebase
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelCoding Against Interfaces - A Practical Example
35-minute seminar talk at advanced levelCombining the WordPress Editing Experience with a Modern PHP Infrastructure
180-minute workshop talk at intermediate levelComputer Science Intro: How To Avoid Reinventing The Wheel
10-minute lightning talk at intermediate levelControlling WordPress through the Command Line - Introduction to WP-CLI
35-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelDealing with Cross-Cutting Concerns
50-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelDemystifying the WordPress Bootstrap Process
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelDependency Injection Deep-Dive
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelDesign Patterns & Dynamic PHP - Do's & Dont's
40-minute seminar talk at advanced levelDesign Patterns through Practical Examples
50-minute seminar talk at advanced levelEmbracing Gutenberg In Existing Code
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelEnterprise WordPress Roadmap
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelHarnessing the Combined Power of Gutenberg & Firebase to Build a Realtime Status Page
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelImproving your Project's Onboarding Experience with Composer
180-minute workshop talk at intermediate levelOOP Plugin Development Basics
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelObject-Oriented Optimization Techniques
40-minute seminar talk at advanced levelPushing for Change: Making an Impact in Open Source
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelSingletons and How to Avoid Them
50-minute seminar talk at beginner levelStructuring Larger OOP Plugins
20-minute seminar talk at advanced levelStructuring PHP Exceptions
50-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelThe Cost of Contribution
10-minute lightning talk at beginner levelThe Eternal Struggle: Backward Compatibility VS Technical Debt
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelThe Secret Sauce For Writing Reusable Code
30-minute seminar talk at advanced levelUltimate Guide to Logging
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelUncommon (Ab)Uses of Composer
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelUse WordPress for its Strengths, Delegate the Rest
30-minute seminar talk at beginner levelUsing A Doctrine ORM Model To Query WordPress Data
40-minute seminar talk at advanced levelUsing Composer To Bootstrap A WordPress Site
40-minute seminar talk at advanced levelUsing the new WordPress Gutenberg Editor through PHP
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelWhy OOP?
40-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelWordPress Plugins with Reusable Composer Packages
180-minute seminar talk at beginner levelWordPress Training: Turbocharge Client Projects
480-minute workshop talk at intermediate levelWrapping A Modern PHP Architecture Around A Legacy WordPress Site
40-minute seminar talk at advanced levelBios
Bio (Third Person Bio)
Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.
He is the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and works on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer.
He offers higher-level consulting, code reviews and software design coaching, enabling companies to deal with frequent change and ever-growing complexity while optimizing for reduced maintenance effort and lower total cost of ownership.
Passionate about software architecture and code quality, he never misses an opportunity to share best practices and tries to live up to his educational aspirations through public speaking and blogging.
You can read his thoughts on code & other things at https://www.alainschlesser.com or say hello on Twitter under the handle @schlessera.