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July 24, 2013

Ryan Hoover

Ryan is a WordPress Developer for WP Engine and the lead organizer of WordCamp Austin 2017. He's been using WordPress for about 10 years. But that's only when he's not covered in sawdust or touring wineries with his wife and son.

A Day of REST: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript Frameworks

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March 17, 2017

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I was lucky enough to attend A Day of REST Boston (ADoR) on March 9, along with many of their workshops. If you’ve never been, and if you develop themes or plugins for WordPress, try to make next year’s event. I’ve never been to a conference that had as many smart people talking about tangible uses and implementations of the WordPress REST API. React, and Vue, and Backbone, oh my! JavaScript frameworks dominated the conversations. Whether it was old-school Backbone, the big dog React, or the newcomer Vue, every workshop, and almost every presentation featured at least one of these frameworks. […]

Writing is Product

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July 23, 2013

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 The best writing comes from a place of honesty, authenticity, and passion. By Ryan Hoover | July 23, 2012  Writing is introspection, therapy, branding, learning, teaching, relationship building. I write for all the reasons above, but it’s my genuine interest and passion to articulate and share my ideas, that fuels my writing. As I’ve invested more time in writing this past year, I’ve begun to see the fruits of my labor. To my surprise, I’ve built an audience – albeit small – of people who genuinely care about what I have to say. And several of those followers have asked […]

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