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Brandon presents at WordCamp San Diego 2012 on Premium Plugins & Adhering To The GPL.

I had the honor of speaking at this year WordCamp Las Vegas. I presented on Actions and Filters which were once my arch nemeses, but are now my best friends. Hosts @sdenike and @vegasgeek did such a good job putting on this year's event.

bbPress 2.0 is out and I'm excited. While there is still room to grow (and JTrip will be the first to tell you this), it is a great improvement over previous versions of the plugin. Thanks John James Jacoby and the bbPress team for all your hard word; it's greatly appreciated.

Last Tuesday evening, Jeffrey and I participated in the 3rd Annual Krochet Kids international Gala. We knew that it was going to be awesome, but had no idea how much progress they have made in their efforts in Uganda. They announced that 2010 will officially mark the year that their program in Uganda was fully sustained by hat sales alone. This is a HUGE accomplishment for them. Not only are they a huge success story, but they continue to expand their business and grow as human beings.

Brandon presents the pluggable plugin platform at WordCamp Los Angeles 2010.

We had a blast a the Las Vegas WordCamp. 9Seeds et al put on a brilliant show and really set the bar for a quality WordCamp. We hooked up with old friends, made new ones and learned more sweet tricks for WordPress.

Brandon speaks at WordCamp Las Vegas 2010 discussing the pros and cons of using child themes versus using theme frameworks.

I presented a quick talk on backing up a WordPress site at the Orange County WordPress Meetup. This is just a set of links and descriptions for examples I used during the preso. As always, do your due diligence when selecting a back up method. Find something that fits your site and your skill level for best results when disaster strikes!

Building plugins is something that’s near and dear to our business. We build and sell our own premium plugins. And just about every project we take on has some sort of custom functionality that we roll into a plugin. Over the years, we’ve evolved our process to make it easier to extend or modify these…