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Ahmad Awais
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations and Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member.
📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 36K devs learning. 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft — Awais is an awesome example for developers.
🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
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Accomplished engineering leader; who loves the purple color.
purple is genius!
I like computers, problems, and using the former to solve the latter. I believe in elegance over adequacy, thoughtfulness over impulse, and the wonder of the world as we see it. I have been developing and designing web pages since the early days of tables and spacers. And no – I’ve never used the scrolling marquee with Comic Sans fonts. 
A Stupid-simple WP Developer Fitness Challenge!
To situate a better future, I am challenging YOU to run/jog/walk 60 minutes daily for next 90 days with me. I'm in, are you? Let's do it!
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🐼 My Commitment to WordPress and Epic Moments of 2015
I wrote about my year 2015 as a WordPress developer sharing my thoughts, resolutions, goals, friends, and all the Epic Moments. Happy New Year!
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Talk: Personal Development for a WordPress Developer
This last Saturday, I was invited, at our local WordPress Meetup Lahore, to speak. It took me a week (which is quite normal) to understand what kind of audience would be there. I am a Full Stack WordPress developer, which means there were a number of topics that I could talk about. But, what good a talk would do if the majority didn't understand [...]
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WordPress 4.4 Clifford and My Core Contributions
WordPress 4.4 "Clifford" just got released. I managed to get six core contributions, two commits to TwentySixteen theme and twelve commits to the WordPress REST API and I am super duper excited about it.
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A Prediction, Calypso & What I Think Is the Next WordPress!
My take on the all new WordPress.com's Calypso and how I think I predicted it. There are a few more predictions in there about The Next WordPress™ and why I feel it's the best way forward.
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Will WordPress Ever Rule the World Wide Web?
Everyone's getting a WordPress REST API, so I let my mind wander for a little while into the future, to find out what would it be like to use, write, develop and design with WordPress or what they call the Future WordPress.
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BEM CSS Basics for WordPress Themes Developers
BEM is a logical standard of writing CSS it helps make CSS more Semantic. BEM's hierarchical naming convention helps a team of developers to understand the structure of a website to work uniformly and with harmony.
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Introducing CF7 Customizer | Form Styling via WP Live Customizer
CF7 Customizer is an intuitive plugin to design your contact forms via WordPress live customizer, right at the front-end. Cherry on the top, it will be free forever.
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WordPress and HTTP/2 — What Developers Need to Know?
We are at the verge of HTTP/2 being introduced as a new standard. If you develop WP Themes being a front-end developer, you need to read this. Hacks and performance fixes which we had for HTTP 1.1 will actually slow down your theme's page loading speed in HTTP/2.
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My Advanced Gulp Workflow for WordPress Themes
If you are an absolute beginner when it comes to Gulp, you might want to read Introducing WPGulp: An Easy to Use WordPress Gulp Boilerplate. Moreover, this post is just an article, which hasn’t been updated in a long time. I maintain this workflow under WPGulp repository. I suggest you all to read this post to get an idea and use WPGulp [...]
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