Wednesday night I attended the Dallas/Fort Worth Wordpress Technical meetup in Richardson. A big thank you to Michael Johnstone (@zelword) for organizing the meeting and locating space. I'm looking forward to having the opportunity for more in depth presentations and discussions on Wordpress, a perfect complement to the monthly DFW WP meetup.

Matthew Simo

The first presentation was by Matthew Simo (@M_A_Simo / http://matt-simo.com/) on the Wordpress Loop and some techniques on filtering posts and templates. Matt's putting together a cheat sheet of WP_query and get_posts. The tweet below was in response to my, have you posted slides question. (I try and get artwork where I can).

Randy Hoyt

The second presentation was by (@randyhoyt / http://randyhoyt.com/ ) on creating content snippets using a WP plugin called ProjectManager. Randy's presentation materials are located here. They include a video walk through.

Titanium

We had mini open session and towards the end Tony Cecala (@tonycecala / http://tonycecala.com/ ) asked to hear more about Titanium, the product I work on at Appcelerator. Hopefully I didn't drone on too long, but I wanted to post links to some of the things I mentioned since I wasn't live tweeting while talking.

• Titanium Download: Mobile 0.7 shipped today, 0.7 Developer and Desktop will ship soon as well.
• Community Page: A good springboard for locating various sections of the site.
• Video: Titanium Mobile 0.7 Our CEO shows off some of the new features in the 0.7 mobilesdk.
• Video: Appcelerator Titanium + Yahoo YQL a quick demo of a mobile application querying for the 7 most recent photos on flickr
• Video: Using Appcelerator Titanium and Social APIs  This is a demo of the new social APIs to connect to Yahoo YQL, Facebook, Twitter and any SOAP-enabled web service.

Since Titanium targets people with web development skillsets: HTML, CSS, and Javascript, I think it makes a perfect tool for independent designer/developers to broaden their product base. One possible product is affinity applications for promotions, one time events, or on the go reference applications with bundled data.

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