About
John Ford presently works on Farmstand, an iPhone app connecting communities with locally-grown food. Passion for coding is what motivates John, but some people are beginning to question his attachment to his iPad. Mix equal parts beautiful code writer, lover of healthy living, world traveler, living room DJ, and community giver and you'll have the geek known as John Ford.
Category Archives: Training
Anybody can learn to code
I agree that learning to program is an important skill and pretty much essential as we continue to depend on computers. I love what sites like Skillcrush, Code.org, Codecademy, and others are doing to make it easy to learn online.
ConvergeSouth 2011
Thanks to everyone for visiting my WordPress for Business Sites presentation at ConvergeSouth 2011. Here are the slides with links to the resources we talked about. More
WordCamp NYC 2010: WordPress Security Presentation
A big thanks to everyone who made it to my Hardening Your WordPress Installation presentation at WordCamp NYC 2010. Here’s a PDF of the WordPress security presentation which contains links to the sites that were mentioned.
Web-Based Simulation Development
I apologize for falling off the radar for the past month+. I’ve been couped up in my hole (my home/office) working on a web-based revenue management simulation for the hospitality industry. As many of you know, I do several training events around the world with the hospitality industry. Two weeks ago, we used the new simulation in a training course … More