DrupalCampNYC 10

Saturday 12 · 10 · 2011

Proposed Sessions

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What You See Is (not always) What you Get (but it can be)
Andrew Mallis

Configuring WYSIWYG editors and image handling is a laborious process, riddled with caveats and best practices. The number of contributed modules extending the WYSIWYG experience is vast, and...

Intermediate Site Building
Building a Great Local Development Environment
Charles Novick

Learn how to download and configure the best open source applications to create a full featured Drupal development environment. After following the instructions in this session you will have a...

Intermediate Development
Will Code for Coffee: How to Volunteer
Randall Goya, Lanny Trager, Tom Sherlock

When your family, friends, church, synagogue etc. find out you know how to build web sites, the first thing they ask is "Can you help us?" Often the answer is "Yes, but you cannot afford to pay me...

Intermediate Business & end users
Controlling URL-itis Helps SEO AND Site Performance
Matthew Dorman

Drupal is a powerful tool for creating and distributing your content. Out of the box, it will deliver this content via numerous unique URLs, add in Views, Panels, and other auto-generating URL-...

Intermediate Development
InDesign Server Integration with Drupal 7
Joe Bachana, Ben Vanderberg

In this session, we will present how organizations can instance content within Drupal to an InDesign template using InDesign server. We will also demonstrate how to interact with Drupal through an...

Intermediate Site Building
My Platform Is Faster Than Yours (or maybe not)
Matthew Dorman

Do you find your self asking "Why is my site so slow and should I just migrate to platform X since everyone I talk to says it's so much faster?" Often it is far more difficult and costly to move...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Custom OpenCalais Tagging
Zvi Epner

I've written a custom OpenCalais module for a client that simply send out the body text, retrives suggested tags and integrates into a custom ActiveTags term ref combo field.

I think the...

Intermediate Development
Drupal & CiviCRM: A complete solution for non-profits
Shawn Duncan

CiviCRM is free, open source constituent relationship management software that handles member management including renewal reminders, online contributions, online event registration, mass mailing...

Intermediate Site Building
Drupal Forensics
Gord Christmas

Have you ever adopted a site and wondered if it was built correctly? Was core hacked? Contrib modified?

This is how you can employ crime scene investigation tactics to a Drupal site, to...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Revitalizing Drupal Projects with SimpleTest
Sean Dague

Look at any long standing software site, Drupal.org, being no exception, and you'll find abandoned projects everywhere. As time goes on, this becomes a veritible junkyard of code. Junkyards can be...

Intermediate Development
Project Manager's Workshop

All there is to know about being a successful Project Manager - the Drupal way

1) Discover the best tools of the trade that will save you tonnes of time, make your team efficient and...

Intermediate Business & end users
Building Beauty on Deadline: Project Management, Development, and Deployment When All Hands are On Deck
Claudina Sarahe, benjamin melançon

This session is a comprehensive case study of the re-launch of the site for Studio Daniel Libeskind (master planner for the Ground Zero memorial and...

Intermediate Presentation
When There's Not a Module for That: Building a Contrib-worthy Drupal 7 Module
benjamin melançon

Drupal is a powerful and modular system— indeed, much of Drupal's power is in its modules, dynamos of pluggable functionality that can build on Drupal's base system and other modules. This session...

Intermediate Development
Drupal 7 Higher Education Case Study
Alex Dergachev

In this session, I'll talk about an admissions portal we're building for a large Canadian university. Requirements have included an intuitive application process for applicants and a flexible form...

Intermediate Business & end users
Drupal, the Cloud and Collaboration: the Rise of the Distributed Agency
Ed McLaughlin

Mao said, "There is great disorder under heaven and the situation is excellent." Indeed, Chairman! In the disorder of the current world economy, the situation is excellent for the Distributed...

Intermediate Business & end users
LEMON- Drupal diseases and cures
Jody Hamilton

With the great demand for complex Drupal websites exceeding the supply of experienced developers and with the barrier of entry to building websites low, badly botched Drupal builds are common....

Intermediate Site Building
Spruce Up Your Admin Section and Build Happier Clients
Brian Short

Where is my content? How do I find it? How do I edit it? How many users do I have?

After the launch of a site, administrators and editors usually have questions that should be easy for them...

Intermediate Site Building
Thinking of Scaling Drupal? Faux pas and common mistakes
Tim Hilliard

In this session you will learn about architectural decisions that may have seemed like a good idea in theory but in practice may not always be that way. As a Client Advisor I come across many...

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance
Introduction to Domain Access
Willy Karam, Dru Pigeon

An introduction to and explanatory discussion of the Domain Access module.

1. What is the Domain Access module?
- Controlling access by inbound HTTP host vs by roles/permission...

Intermediate Site Building
Go Away Daddy: Moving from Shared Hosting to a VPS
Rebecca Garcia

Tired of seeing a White Screen of Death (WSOD)? It's time to move away from restrictive shared web hosting! Know what's going behind the scenes and gain full control of your hosting environment....

Intermediate Sysadmin & performance