Proposed Sessions
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Track |
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Making Drupal easier to use: Current status and future plans David Rothstein Drupal 7 is easier to use than Drupal 6 was. But if we want to make building and managing Drupal sites an intuitive, delightful experience, especially for people who are new to the community, we... |
Beginner | Presentation |
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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 |
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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 |
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Simple DevOps Using Jenkins Robert Ristroph This presentation will cover a simple setup of a Jenkins (it can even run on your laptop), and a set of scripts will be demonstrated that enable the following workflow: * Run Drupal Cron... |
Beginner | Development |
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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 |
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Hello, Drupal? Building Drupal sites that make and receive phone calls Leo Burd As part of this session, you will learn about VoIP Drupal (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal),... |
Beginner | Development |
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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 |
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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 |
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Solving Pain Points: Getting from Customer Requirements to Module Selection Marissa Martinez Helping clients help their customers starts by getting clients to put themselves in their customers' shoes and understand their pain points. What are some practical ways that developers can help... |
Beginner | Development |
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Unravelling the Forms API Thomas Getgood HTML forms go back to the very beginning, but in the beginning they were a nightmare. Over time various frameworks and abstractions developed to wrap the horrors of naked forms so that you only... |
Beginner | Development |
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Unravelling the Forms API Thomas Getgood HTML forms go back to the very beginning, but in the beginning they were a nightmare. Over time various frameworks and abstractions developed to wrap the horrors of naked forms so that you only... |
Beginner | Development |
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Build your first module during this session: A practical approach to "glue code." John Robert Wilson One of the biggest advantages of Drupal is the number of contributed modules that are available to use. Contributed modules can offer a large benefit but often come with many extra features that... |
Beginner | Development |
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Overcoming the Departmental Site Challenge: How to Unify a University's Web Platform with Drupal 7 Glenn Hilton Abstract: Best practices for using Drupal at your EDU, and an in-depth case study on how Drupal 7 is being used to manage over 190 department sites and 35,000 students at... |
Beginner | Case study |
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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 |
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Drupal Project Management Strategies Matthew Dorman Discover a strategy for ensuring successful outcomes of Drupal projects of any size. “We don't have to manage our Drupal projects differently; Drupal allows us to manage them in different and more... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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How to Recruit and Retain Top Talent in the Drupal Community Glenn Hilton The last few years have consistently seen 10%+- global unemployment as much of world is mired in an economic recession. However, the demand for top Drupal talent remains strong. In this session,... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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How to Land and Keep a Job at a Drupal Shop Glenn Hilton In this session we’ll explore some of the things you can do to catch the attention of that Drupal web agency you’re hoping to work for. We’ll examine ways you can set yourself up so HR managers... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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 |
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Caching/Varnish for Decision-Makers and Architects Tim Loudon High performance and scalability are complex topics--even for experts: we can't change that. But we can take a holistic look at our websites and our systems to gain a better understanding of the... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Integrating Social Media: the Modules and the Big Picture Marissa Martinez Social media. Your clients expect it but may or may not really understand how to leverage it to help their business, This session will review some of the available Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 social... |
Beginner | Business & end users |