WordCamp NYC 2016

Today I spoke at WordCamp NYC 2016. My talk Command Line: Beyond the Basics was primarily for people you know have some basic command line knowledge, but wanted to improve their skills. After a minor bout of nervousness, I discussed some fundamental techniques for building an advanced command line skill set – variables, alias, functions, command substitution, and redirection . Then I followed this up with some scripting basics. Since my audience is WordPress developers, their knowledge of PHP programming should make bash scripting simple to learn. I pointed out that their current programming experience can be applied to organizing and writing their bash code. I was just teaching them syntax and building their mental of how the shell works

WordCamp NYC was held at United Nations Headquarters, which is amazing. The rooms where the talks are held, are the types of rooms you see watching important meetings on CNN. I was impressed by the live captioning on the screen, and they also had sign language interpreters. There were also ear pieces to help augment the speaker’s voice. Traditionally, these ear pieces are listening to translations of the speaker. That’s pretty cool.

I’ve included my slides. You can download my slides (PDF), and I encourage you to do the homework at the end, which is to look at my opal project and use that as inspiration to create your own bash configuration files using the things I’ve taught you in this talk.

Happy computing!