Proposed Sessions
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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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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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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 |
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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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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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Automating OpenScholar (A One Stop Solution for your school) Nikhil Dubbaka This session will be a walk-through on what is OpenScholar (http://openscholar.harvard.edu/) and how it is used at schools. |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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 |
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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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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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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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Content Strategy & Drupal: A Match Made in (Taxonomy) Heaven Natalya Minkovsky What does content strategy mean for the Drupal community? Working with a content strategist can help make the development process smoother and prevent last-minute surprises and frustrations. (“Why... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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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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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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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 |