Today I had the privilege of attending Wordcamp Denver today at the Denver Art Museum, a conference put on by Automatic “…created for enthusiasts, users, developers, designers, and fans of WordPress in the Denver/Boulder area.”  It would be a mild understatement to say that the amount of knowledge dissipated today was colossal.  I can not wait to put some of the things that I learned into practice on new projects.

Invisible Window has been committed to developing on WordPress for a few years now, but today opened up a whole new world of possibilities.  The most noteworthy sessions were:

1. Matt Mullenweg (Automattic) – founding developer of WordPress.
   Matt spoke on the future of WordPress, presented some amazing themes and plugins, and spoke of some new projects on the horizon that the WordPress community can look forward to (bbpress, wordpress.tv, Buddy Press, etc)
2. Ben Huh (Pet Holdings) – Ben Huh is the CEO of the company that runs FAIL Blog, I Can Has Cheezburger?, GraphJam and other Interweb time sinks.
   Ben spoke on how to scale a company using WordPress and other ‘pluggable’ vendors/providers to grow a business (he was quite entertaining to listen to, and coined a great acronym – MPH – Mr. Potato Head – essentially you can put something in, it may look ugly but it works – you can pull something out – it may be ugly but it works)
3. Alex King (Crowd Favorite) – WordPress as a CMS using the Carrington Theme FrameworkAlex presented an amazing CMS framework theme for developers called Carrington.  Carrington offers a very high degree of customization via a sophisticated file structure (Invisible Window will definitely be using this heavily in the future)
4. Jake Spurlock (Petomundo!) – Developing with BuddyPress
   Jake spoke on Buddy Press (a social network which runs on a WordPressMU installation).  I think we will be using this to re-deploy The Chain Ring.

This was a totally amazing experience (especially if you’re a geek like me ) and I am really looking forward to putting this knowledge out there on projects.  Contact us and we’ll get going on your next great idea.