Accepted sessions
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Community Spotlight - Sysadmin & Performance Steven Merrill Let's Be Upfront About PerformanceThe 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 |
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Guided Conversation - Steven Merrill Steven Merrill Steven continuing his talk. |
Intermediate | Sysadmin & performance |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Drupal + NYC + Businesses = Awesome Alexander Ross, Frank Carey Drupal + NYC + Business = Awesome |
Beginner | Site Building |
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Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull Thomas Turnbull Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull |
Intermediate | Site Building |
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@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 |