Proposed Sessions
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Coat Your Website in Varnish Steven Merrill Varnish is a reverse proxy cache that can significantly speed up your Drupal website. In this talk, we'll dive deep into the theory of how to use Varnish and also go through a hands-on... |
Advanced | Sysadmin & performance |
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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 |
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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 |
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Enterprise Drupal Hi my name is Kevin Moll and I am a Drupal developer for the Daily Racing Form. At the last DrupalCampNYC we had a great open forum session discussing Drupal at the Enterprise Level. People from... |
Advanced | Sysadmin & performance |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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What is a hook Scott Wolpow One of the most confusing concepts to a new user is hooks. This should be a ground floor step by step of hook definition, creation and use. |
Beginner | Site Building |
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Building Conference & Event Sites in Drupal with COD Ezra Gildesgame Come see why Drupal is the best platform for building conference and event websites that meet the needs of attendees, event organizers and sponsors! In this session we'll build a conference... |
Beginner | Site Building |
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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 |
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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 |
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10 Things I wished I'd known when I started using Drupal Ian Finlay 1. How to reset the Admin password Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7 2. Drush trips and ticks (alternatively , tricks and tips) 3. Using git for quick download and installation 4. How to... |
Beginner | Site Building |
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Leveraging Drupal for Black/White (Grey) Hat SEO Techniques Patrick cheng Having dealt with web development for over 12 years, search engines have gotten more sophisticated since the early days of keyword stuffing to more advanced and stealth techniques of today. Most... |
Beginner | Site Building |
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Hunting for Bugs: Improving your Drupal Testing Process Simone Pereira, Suzanne Kennedy Testing is a major component of any web development process. Whether you're a freelancer doing your own QA process or part of a larger development team, a good testing methodology will make your... |
Beginner | Site Building |
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Multisites - What they are and how to use them Erik Peterson An often overlooked aspect of Drupal core is the ability to run multiple Drupal sites out of a single set of Drupal files. This is a great and wonderful idea.... |
Beginner | Site Building |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
Intermediate | Site Building |
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The Emperor's New Clothes (or how I learned to ask "is the cool thing the right thing") # The Emperor's New Clothes **Level:** N/A - everyone... |
Beginner | Presentation |
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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 |