Awesome! If I had to describe WordCamp Milano 2017 in a word, I would say awesome!
After a pretty good 2016 edition, they outdid themselves this year. Everything was perfect; starting from the food, the after party at Byblos Milano, the high quality talks, and the instant translation from Italian to English and vice-versa (I didn’t use it personally, but I heard it was pretty good).
The conference was running on two tracks: one for Development and Design, the other one for Business, Marketing and SEO.
The WordCamp Milano Talks
After registration and opening remarks, Giustino started the day off by introducing us to the conference.
The first speaker of the day was Luca Tumedei, who talked about how good communication helps team working better and getting things done faster.
Following Luca was Emanuel Blagonic, who emphasised the importance of accessibility, usability and why we should build websites for users, not awards. (The best would be designing award winning websites for users ? )
Mauricio Gelves talked about the WordPress database – props to him, it isn’t easy to speak in front of so many people in a language that’s not yours! Sergey Biryuokov gave us some tips on how to use WordPress for personal development, and Enrico Battocchi shared with us all the mistakes he made while building one of the most successful plugins for WordPress (Duplicate Post).
After lunch, Andrea Cardinali showed us why performances is really important today and he shared a few tips on how to make our websites faster.
Giuseppe Mazzapica from Inpsyde, talked about SOLID principles and how to write better code to keep it understandable, flexible and maintainable. I think this was the most interesting talk, because as a developer I always aim to expand my skills and write better code and Giuseppe gave us tips and showed us simple and clear examples on how to do it with WordPress.
John Blackbourn then talked about why it’s important to use https with a simple and straightforward talk, who was followed by Tammie Lister. Tammie shared with us the process they followed for building Gutenberg and how they managed to get precious feedbacks from users to improve their product.
Finally, in conclusion, Eugenio Petullà illustrated in a very simplistic way, how Docker could speed up our local workflow and how to get started using it.
Overall it was a fantastic day, with some really inspiring and entertaining speakers and useful tips on how to improve the way my team and I work.
However, the best thing at WordCamps is networking, everybody gets involved with the community of WordPress and the Italian community is amazing!
See you next year Milano!
