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Who is the Intended Audience of WordCamp?
Is it Developers? Is it bloggers? Is it students? Is it people building there own websites? Since last 3-4 WordCamps that has happened in India and the discussion that has followed at the end of those camps has finally forced me to share my concerns and understanding about intended audience.

I believe that the intended audience for a WordCamp is user of WordPress and it is just incidental that some of the users are also developers.

Let’s start by looking at what WordCamp central says about it.

“WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.”

Interesting isn’t it, but what does “Everything WordPress” mean?

I believe it means anything and everything that a WordPress user needs, and mind you, not a developer but user. This is an important distinction and cause of confusion.

I also believe that videos published on WordPress.tv agrees to agenda of WordCamp, so here is a quick and small list of talks from various WordCamps :
I purposely picked talks that were popular but had nothing to do exclusively with WordPress, but are important for people using WordPress. I agree to the fact that most of the talks on WordPress.tv are related to development using WordPress, but to assume that WordCamps are only for WordPress developers is big mistake.

Trust me when I say we are lucky that WordCamp attracts so many users, at almost every other Camp like Joomla and Drupal in India attracts only developers and they keep discussing how do they attract more users.
March 23, 2014
Who is the driver in your team?

Driver is usually the person with the agenda who keeps team together, focused on the task at hand and making sure team is going in the direction he wants.

If you want something done by your team then you need to be the driver.

In a team settings, we all know the importance being a leader, but unless leader is also the driver he will be ineffective. Just like when you plan a outing with your team and you decide to go somewhere, you will take your seat in the vehicle and wait for the driver to take you to the destination. From this point onwards the driver is in power to decide everything about the trip, till we reach the destination.

An effective leader is one who is also the driver of the team, or else have a drive dedicated to his’s vision, otherwise we will have an rubber stamp leadership in team. If driver is missing altogether from the team then it will not move in any direction and it will fail, just like the above outing if no one is going to drive the vehicle.

May 12, 2013
Which Story Are You Telling?
Every time we speak, we’re telling stories about our lives.

These stories almost always fall into one of the following types:
1. I could not do X because of these Y problems, or
2. I did something despite these Y problems coming my way.
The first casts you as the victim of your story; the second lets you emerge as the hero.

I choose to listen to and tell the hero’s story. Which one will you choose?
May 5, 2013
Are You Worthy of Your Dreams?

I have been thinking about my journey of last three years as an entrepreneur, various easy and hard times that I have seen, and wondering what makes few people achieve their dreams while few people fail to achieve it?

What I have come to realize (or rationalize for me ) is that whatever your dreams are, they will always need certain special skills, and hard times are your dreams’ way of testing to make sure you have the requisite skills to achieve those dreams.

In an entrepreneurial journey you will continuously need different set of skills. Your ability to acquire them will decide how many difficult times you are going to pass through, and for how long.

All I hope is to acquire all the skills needed to be worthy of my dreams sooner rather than later.

March 17, 2013
WordCamp Pune 2013 – A Weekend Of WordPress

After a long wait WordCamp is happening in Pune this weekend ie on 23rd and 24th Feb 2013, from 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM.

Day one is focused on Developers and Day 2 is focused on users.

For more details check the website for the event.

Hope to see you there 🙂

February 19, 2013
How I started With PHP

Khayrattee( @7php) of 7php.com recently published an interview with me, do read and let know your feedback.

March 11, 2012
Why PHP is So Popular on Web?

If you ever wondered why the hell PHP is so popular on the web when there are better and powerful languages available?

Well, the answer is very simple, It is only language that allows even musicians to build sites for themselves.

By the way that is also the reason why WordPress has become the king of CMS and my choice for starting a WordPress development team – WPoets.

December 2, 2011
The Pune effect on Indian Tech Events

Do you know about ‘The Pune Effect’ which influences all the Tech events in India, if not go read.

And if you are an event organiser then consider Pune as venue for your next event.

October 13, 2011
Aspiring WordPress Developers Read These Articles First

If you are starting with WordPress Plugin or theme development, or want to know where to start then here is a small list of articles that you should read, some of them should be always open in your browser, and some of them in your RSS reader.

Documentation and Help

1) http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference: This article list almost all the core functions that are available for a plugin developer.

2) http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference: This article is a complete list of the action hooks available for use in plugin development.

3) http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference: This article is a complete list of the filter hooks available for use in plugin development.

4) http://codex.wordpress.org/Data_Validation: This article is list all the function are available in WordPress core to help us with data sanitization and validation

5) http://codex.wordpress.org/Site_Architecture_1.5: This article describes the general site architecture of a WordPress theme to help you understand it.

6) http://wordpress.stackexchange.com: This is *the* place to ask questions related to WordPress development, and off course give answers as well.

7) http://iwebask.com/blog/2011/03/16/75rss-feeds-for-web-developers-wordpress-bloggers/: Whole bunch of links that you should follow on your RSS reader, so that you can stay in sync with latest WordPress tips and tricks.

8) http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/09/28/definitive-list-of-free-wordpress-theme-frameworks/: This article list whole bunch of theme frameworks that you can use for your themes.

WordPress Core Community

1) http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/ : This is the place where people in the core hang out, read it so that you are upto date with latest happenings about WordPress

2) http://make.wordpress.org/themes/: This is where people who review themes submitted in the wordpress.org theme repository hang out.

Well these are the links that i have found very useful, and I spend most of my time there. If you have any such useful link please share in the comments below.

P.S. We are hiring WordPress developers, email me your resumes if you are interested to become part of the team.

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March 30, 2011
How To Catch PHP Fatal Error In CodeIgniter
My last few blog post’s are result of the project that I am currently working on, and this blog is also in that series.

We needed to catch PHP Fatal Errors in the production environment and notify about it to developers, also at the same time, showing our beautiful fail whale page to user instead of ugly error or a white screen of death.

Here I will show you how to do this in CodeIgniter, though credit for this idea goes to hipertracker.

First of all you will need to setup a hook, so update your hooks.php file with following code
```
	$hook['pre_system'][] = array(
	    'class'    => 'PHPFatalError',
            'function' => 'setHandler',
            'filename' => 'PHPFatalError.php',
   	    'filepath' => 'hooks'
);
```
Now put the code shown below in PHPFatalError.php file in your applications hooks folder.

This is the simplifed version of what I have done, so please update handleShutdown function as per your needs.

Check out PHPCamp a place to share news, views and articles that are useful to PHP community.
January 1, 2011

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