Best of WordCamp Jerusalem
WordCamp Jerusalem had a very strong finish. Here’s the best of the best:
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Best Lines:
- Matt Mullenweg:
- People have better things 2 do. The tool should be invisible. Take 1 sec from 15 mil users. That’s a lot of time.
- (Discussing WordPress history): Some of the conversations were a bit combative. But you guys should be fine with that.
- 3.0 was just meant to be the version after 2.9. It wasn’t meant to signify a major release. [and in response to laughter:] Really!
- Joel Spolsky said it takes 10 years to make great software. WordPress is 8. So we’re almost there!
- I don’t mind being on the Titanic, but I want to be steering.
- Liz Cohen: Don’t go to blog angry
- Audience member after attempts to get reasonable lighting failed: “This is a tech college, everything is binary. It’s on or off.”
Best Lessons:
- Barry Abrahamson: 80% of total load time is client side. Tools: Yslow; Pagespeed. To reduce client-side load time Reduce # of http requests; compress (gzip); optimize images (resize, pngcrush, jpegtrans) [hat tip: Charlie Kalech]
- Barry Abrahamson: Don’t optimize if you don’t have to. Caching can cause complications and often doesn’t help much. Only use it if you need it. [hat tip: Charlie Kalech]
- Liz Cohen: Step outside your zone. Show that you’re thinking about the whole industry. Example RapidFire Video.
Best Interactions:
- Barak Danin: Got timid applause as he was introduced. Said “it’s OK” and helped start the clapping. “It’s just that I saw people were a bit embarrassed, so I figured I’d help them.”
- Matt Mullenweg reacting to positive audience participation enthusiastically shouts “Free blogs for all of you”
- Audience Member: What would you tell somebody who started a site in WordPress? Matt: Well first, you made the right choice. Second, you’re in the right place. Should we take a survey in this room?
Best Tweets:
- @frgdr: #BestOf #KvetchingAsSport RT @mdavep #wcjeru not enough tuna in my tuna sandwich
- @mdavep: man, @photomatt is recklessly giving away free blogs left and right at #wcjeru
Best Stories:
- Matt Mullenweg: The way people became core developers at WordPress was they kept sending me patches and asking me to commit them. Eventually I had to say “here, have commit rights.”
Best Speakers:
- Matt Mullenweg
- Barry Abrahamson
- Liz Cohen (yes, I’m biased, but still …)
- Oren Yomtov
- Miriam Schwab
- Eyal Sela
- Jonathan Caras
Best Blog Coverage:
Did you catch something great that I missed? Did I mention you and not link to you? Leave a comment here or Tweet to @GilR.
Also in this series:
- Best of SMX Advanced 2010
- Best of 140: Twitter in Tel Aviv
- Best of SMX Toronto 2010
- Best of SphinnCon 2010
- Best of BirdBrain 2010
- Best of SMX Advanced 2009
- Best of PubCon 2009
September 6, 2010 @ 9:29 am
Thanks for another great roundup! Linked.
September 6, 2010 @ 2:23 pm
Nice writeup Gil! Thanks for putting me in the speakers list, and to Answers.com for the sponsorship and an amazing speaker (Liz)!
September 6, 2010 @ 5:23 pm
Thanx Miriam & Jennifer!
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