DrupalCampNYC 10

Saturday 12 · 10 · 2011

Accepted sessions

Announcing DrupalcampNYC10 Sessions!

Following are the accepted sessions for the December 10th Drupalcamp, which is being held at John Jay College in Manhattan.

Session tracks for this camp are:

  • Development
  • Site building
  • Presentation
  • Business & end users
  • Sysadmin & performance
Session Experience level Tracksort icon
High Performance Hosting
Sam Kottler

This session will cover a variety of techniques and systems to create a high-performance web hosting environment tailored to Drupal. We will cover tuning Apache and MySQL, as well as adding...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Better Local QA Testing with Vagrant and Puppet
Steven Merrill

Many issues can arise from developers not testing with the proper versions of software on their local machines, but the average Drupal hosting stack is growing in complexity, with many sites...

Advanced Sysadmin & performance
What is Pantheon, and why should I use it?
Joshua Koenig, Matt Cheney, Kelly Bell

Good development practices start with good development environments - dev, stage, live; drush, Git, automated backups - Pantheon has it all, supporting both Drupal 6 and 7, and makes it easy to...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Caching Demystified
Aaron Welch

Caching systems are a crucial tool for scaling any application and increasing performance. They are something every Drupal site utilizes on some level, and while they are a critical component of...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Automated Configuration Management Using Chef
Nathan Goulding

In this session we'll give a brief introduction to Opscode's Chef and its implications for automating the installation and configuration of full-featured, high-performance Drupal deployments. We...

Advanced Sysadmin & performance
Why the *bleep* is my site so slow? (aka Demystifying Drupal Performance Tuning)
Steve Rude

Every person reaches this point with their site development for new sites:

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Community Spotlight - Sysadmin & Performance
Steven Merrill

Let's Be Upfront About Performance

The speed with which your website loads for your visitors is very important. Studies show that a small slow-down in responsiveness can cause a large...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Guided Conversation - Steven Merrill
Steven Merrill

Steven continuing his talk.

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
The 4 things I learned at DrupalCons that utterly changed the way I build Drupal sites
Alexander Ross

In the past five years I have attended 4 DrupalCons and from each one I taken away exactly one life-altering concept/tool/idea that has made that conference worth the price of admission. Common to...

Beginner Site Building
Mapping with Drupal
Thomas Turnbull

Custom geographical maps are a popular way to represent data on the web. More and more users are comfortable using a web mapping interface thanks mostly to the work of Google Maps. But users also...

Intermediate Site Building
The Power of Views: Learning to use an essential Drupal Module

This presentation will introduce the Views module, one of the most powerful contributed modules for Drupal. Views allows the selective displaying and filtering of content and is a must learn...

Intermediate Site Building
Mastering Panels and Page Manager: Powerful Tools for Displaying Content
Ted Bowman

The Panels and Page Manager modules work together to create one of the most powerful content display systems for Drupal. Learn to create complex...

Intermediate Site Building
How to Build a Mobile Site with Drupal
Harris Rashid

The trend towards a "mobile first" use of the web is showing no signs of slowing down. It's no longer enough to have websites that are functional on mobile. They must work well and feel natural on...

Beginner Site Building
Don't Get Lost in Translation: Multilingual Site Building with Drupal 7
Suzanne Kennedy

Multilingual site building with Drupal can be challenging. Depending on the type of site you’re building, the list of modules you’ll need and the configuration settings you’ll choose will vary...

Intermediate Site Building
Node 101: The ABC's of Drupal
Forest Mars

This hour long prolegomenon will cover everything you've always wanted to know about Drupal (but were too afraid to ask.) From preprocess to hooks, from wysiwig to workflow, this will be a...

Beginner Site Building
Speed dating (or What can you do with Drupal - NYC Edition)

Now that you have been through the Drupal 101 session let's show you some examples of what has been done with Drupal in the NYC area.

Beginner Site Building
Community Spotlight - Site Building
Thomas Turnbull

Dreaming in Drupal: How to think like a developer to build without code.

Drupal has been around for over ten years and there are over 9,000 modules. As overwhelming as this list is, it...

Intermediate Site Building
Drupal + NYC + Businesses = Awesome
Alexander Ross, Frank Carey

Drupal + NYC + Business = Awesome

Beginner Site Building
Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull
Thomas Turnbull

Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull

Intermediate Site Building
@Include SASS
Claudina Sarahe, Sam Richard

We'd like to give a session on CSS preprocessors. The session will focus on Sass and harnessing the true power of CSS preprocessors with Compass. We will also talk about the Susy responsive grid...

Intermediate Presentation