Proposed Sessions
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Experience level | Track |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |