Accepted sessions
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Experience level | Track |
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Why We Should Stop Selling Drupal Matt Westgate Let's be honest, Drupal has become a buzzword. Potential clients are putting the technology cart before the horse, asking for Drupal but not understanding what Drupal does. Oftentimes we are quick... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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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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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Theme preprocess functions: An introduction Carl Wiedemann ======================================== |
Intermediate | Development |
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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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The Coding Designer's Survival Kit Mason Wendell The Survival Kit is a theme and Sass/Compass framework that greatly aids in designing in the browser. We'll cover how it makes use of and extends Sass and Compass, and how it can guide you in... |
Intermediate | Presentation |
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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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Tales from the Admin Layer: Who Moved My Block? molly byrnes As end users of Drupal admin screens, content administrators know where all the ghosts of checkboxes pasts lie. |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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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Something's broken, but I don't know what: using Selenium to automate testing Nikki Stevens Whether you're quickly building a large website, or have inherited a questionable code base - testing is crucial. The larger the site and the faster the build, the easier it becomes to break... |
Intermediate | Development |
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Rockstar in the making: The path to theming mastery. Shawn Gregg It's an exciting time for the front-end. The web is evolving, standards are being updated, and new frameworks forged. In a space where there is so much change it's easy to glaze over the... |
Beginner | Presentation |
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Responsive Web Design Done Right Jen Simmons There's a lot of excitement these days about responsive web design — and a lot of confusion. People in the Drupal community are looking for tools and shortcuts, and are misunderstanding what... |
Intermediate | Presentation |
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Real Impact: Drupal and Government? Shawn Mole, Jeff Walpole Drupal is growing in government - there's no doubt about that. But beyond building interesting and useful web sites, the public sector is using Drupal to push the limits of open government and... |
Beginner | Case study |
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Project Whispering Nicole Lind Drupal projects within a company are rarely alone. It can seem overwhelming with multiple projects, limited resources and competition between projects for the same resources. With the rapid growth... |
Intermediate | Business & end users |
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Profiling Drupal with XHProf (or, Identifying the Suck) Mark Sonnabaum By now, most developers within the Drupal community have heard of the many tools and techniques used to improve Drupal performance such as varnish, memcache, solr, apc, ESI, etc. However, each... |
Advanced | Development |
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Practical Drupal Security Ben Jeavons Drupal is a powerful tool that can be built, configured, and managed insecurely, far too easily. This session takes a practical look at effective web security risk management, touching on: ... |
Intermediate | Development |
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Panel: Build a better Drupal Agency - Open Q&A Joe Bachana, Jeff Robbins, Michael Caccavano, Matt Cheney, Frank Febbraro Panel: Build a better Drupal Agency - Open Q&A |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Omega + Delta + Context = Theming for the Rest of Us Joel Moore This session will introduce novice to intermediate site builders with little or no php fu to the responsive, mobile-first, HTML5 Omega base theme. If you are new to Drupal or are a Drupal site... |
Beginner | Presentation |
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OK, So We've Implemented Drupal, Now What? Joe Bachana, Marque Staneluis, Aiden Colie, Nino Tasca, Justin Hoffman Once an organization has implemented Drupal, it is easy to feel that the work is mostly done and the team can rest on its laurels. However, as in any technology implementation, companies need to... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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 |