{"id":138414,"date":"2014-07-14T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.la.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=138414"},"modified":"2014-07-14T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:19:09","slug":"cal-evans","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/cal-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We\u2019re using the term \u201ccomputer\u201d loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 13 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux, OSX, and Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of \u201cmanagement by wandering around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects like CoderFaire. He speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from technical talks to motivational talks for developers. If you happen to meet him at a conference, don\u2019t be afraid to buy him a shot of Bourbon.<\/p>\n<p>Cal is based in Nashville TN where he is happily married to wife 1.30, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We\u2019re using the term \u201ccomputer\u201d loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/cal-evans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Cal Evans<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"CalEvans","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-138414","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9deaabc0787cfe79cf208bb9f062352aa5fa1d84fad87b307a724d020b8fd477?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/138414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/138414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138415,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/138414\/revisions\/138415"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/138871?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=138414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}