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A (Web) Face for Radio: NPR Builds a Platform on Drupal 7 Over the past year, NPR has developed a turn-key web platform for public radio stations. Using Drupal 7 as a base, it allows stations to quickly create a beautiful and dynamic site that leverages... |
Intermediate Case Study |
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Case Study: Energy.gov This summer, the US Department of Energy re-launched Energy.gov on Drupal. The technical requirements of the project were driven by an internal need to consolidate... |
Intermediate Case Study |
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Drupal 7 Takes Portland State University to School Abstract: A case study on how Drupal is being used to manage over 160 department sites at Portland State University. Managing the hundreds of websites a university needs is no simple task.... |
Beginner Case Study |
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Scaling, and supporting 200 major artist sites in the cloud In late 2010, a major media company began exploring the option of consolidating all of their sites to a single hosted web platform. The internal team had been very successful in site deployment,... |
Beginner Case Study |
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Build a Feature Rich Site by Configuration Only This will be a run through the EBMUD.com D6 site functionality which is built almost entirely using contributed modules and the Zen theme. We will highlight standard corporate needs and how... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Building a Drupal Theme from Scratch using 960 Grid Using 960 Grid, it is much easier and faster to build a web page than it is to build without it. By using 960 Grid, you also automatically solve the many tedious issues of CSS, especially where... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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The Logic and Styling of an Ubercart Cart : part 1 Following on from the presentation at http://... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Custom theme development How to control and customize the HTML structure generated by Drupal. In this session I will demonstrate how to
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Intermediate Design & Theme |
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What I like about TAO, and I am not talking starbow :) In 2011 I officially switched over to the TAO base theme. After building a bunch of uniquely different websites I will highlight why I am so happy with my switch.... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Intermediate Theming Believe it or not, Drupal makes theming easy! Drupal provides the themer with a system of overrides that allows you to change literally anything on your site. Themers decide what gets... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Displays and Views 'Guts and Glory' Theming without Coding This session will provide an introductory perspective and practical demonstration on display and theming. The goal is to work with a content type, discover how the displays for node and teaser... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Top Ten Tpl.php Theming Tips Tpl.php are the files, used by phptemplate in Drupal, to present information to the screen. That sounds complex; however, this will be an entry level discussion about theming the content inside a... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Drupal Sites Without Custom Code Planning and Building a site without coding using only contributed modules and themes. This approach is appropriate for small businesses, non-profits, and volunteer organisations. By doing this... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Crazy Fast Theming with Omega + Delta + Context & Features A theming workflow based on 960 grid using Omega as a foundation will make you crazy fast! Omega + Omega Tools + Context + Delta + Features is crazy fast & totally flexible. No-code required... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Roll your own usability study Usability is increasingly getting popular in the Drupal Community. Dries’s keynote at DrupalCon London, re-emphasized the importance for a more integrated usability approach for Drupal 8. With... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Modern Theming: Beyond Preprocessing and .tpls Anyone with experience theming Drupal knows that on a complicated project template files (tpls) can start to stack up, making your project harder to maintain. Fortunately, with Drupal 7 it is much... |
Advanced Design & Theme |
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Outside the Garden: Intro to RaphaelJS RaphaëlJS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for drawing and animating with SVG and VML. If you've ever wanted to include simple animations or image effects on the web without Flash (and/or... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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How to Build a Mobile Site with Drupal The trend towards a "mobile first" use of the web is showing |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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The problem of the pixel perfect design Most Drupaleros have had clients that send detailed design comps and say, "I want a site that looks just like this" -- but the design hasn't taken Drupal into account. That's not going to change.... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Sassy CSS: Compass Sass Susy CSS is necessary in order to specify how fonts, colors, images and layout properties look and act. You need CSS to make your site look "good", but why write plain CSS when you can write Sassy CSS... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS! Drupal's theme layer is very flexible and can accommodate just about any web design. It's important for designers to remember, however, that they're not really creating a page — they're building a... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Efficient workflow for design and development projects We'll take a look at how our web design and development company moves Drupal projects from concept, to design, to production, using Drupal as the technical backbone for much of the process. We'll... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Modern Web Typography in Drupal Over the past two years, the state of web typography has drastically changed, especially so in Drupal. The legal, technical, and usability roadblocks preventing most of us from using web fonts... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Responsive Drupal Theming: Beyond the Media Query Responsive (or adaptive) layouts are a hot topic right now, and for good reason: they let us serve an appropriate UI to any device loading a site. Once you've created a responsive design, how do... |
Intermediate Design & Theme |
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Guerrilla Usability Testing: Seeing is Believing! Before building that new feature -- make sure people can get back to the homepage! End user's experiences are often profoundly different than what we expect. Usability testing and user... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Changing the Culture of Content Creators Good websites are built of three things: Carefully curated content, beautifully designed interfaces, and thoughtfully deployed code. Businesses and organizations hire web developers and... |
Beginner Design & Theme |
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Why the *bleep* is my site so slow? (aka Demystifying Drupal Performance Tuning) Every person reaches this point with their site development for new sites:
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Intermediate Performance |
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Caching Demystified Caching systems are a crucial tool for scaling any application and increasing performance. They are something every Drupal site utilizes on some level, and while they are a critical component of... |
Intermediate Performance |
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Coat Your Website in Varnish 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 Performance |
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Internet Scale: Building the "Drupal Borg" The traditional “Cluster” architecture has been around the web since the 1990s. This tried and true model has supported 1,000s of large sites on any number of platforms. However, it has some... |
Intermediate Performance |
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Make Drupal fly with Varnish magic! We love Drupal. We have a great system with many modules and great innovation benefits contributed by thousands of developers and of course we want to have it all! So we will reach soon the... |
Advanced Performance |
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Profiling Drupal with XHProf By now, most developers within the Drupal community have heard of the many tools and techniques used to improve Drupal performance such as varnish, memcache, solr, apc, ESI, etc. However, each... |
Advanced Performance |
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Powering Drupal with nginx (Engine-X) The world of high-performance tuning is getting turned on its head by this new(-ish) entrant into the world of web servers and reverse proxy caches. nginx (... |
Intermediate Performance |
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Configuration Management Initiative status report The Configuration Management Initiative for Drupal 8 has been going full steam for six months. So what has happened, and where do we go from here? I will outline the work that has been done so far... |
Intermediate Community |
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Engineering for the 80%, too. There's been a huge push in this community to "Design for the 80%". The idea is that you want to make Drupal really easy for 80 percent of the people who use it. This usually involves setting... |
Beginner Community |
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Introduction to Drupal New to Drupal or just need a quick refresher in some of the topics and related terminology? In this sessoin we'll explain nodes, blocks, users, roles, taxonomy and many of the other basic concepts... Joe Shindelar, Matt Kleve |
Beginner Community |
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Leading a Drupal Team Topics: - Division of Labor I hope to recruit other... |
Beginner Community |
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How to Recruit and Retain Top Talent - Insight into Building a Stellar Team 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 Community |
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How to Land and Keep a Job at a Drupal Web Agency 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 Community |
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Panel - Build a better Drupal agency - It's good for Drupal Let's improve more than the code. Drupal needs smart business leaders as much as it needs brilliant coders. The coders are doing their part, now it's time for the business folks to step up! Ron Huber, Glenn Hilton, Ben Finklea, Matt Cheney |
Intermediate Community |
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Prepackaged: 10 Drupal quickstarts ("distros") up close Drupal distributions get your purpose-driven site up quickly, but few people have compared "distros" side-by-side. This fun session changes that by demonstrating ten of the most popular -- and, if... |
Intermediate Community |
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"Sustainable" Drupal Distributions Install profiles...Features...Drush Make...Drupal Distributions and related tools are all the rage - as is "productizing" Drupal. But the reality is that there are few examples in our community of... |
Beginner Community |
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Close more deals! It's show time and it's about one thing. And it's not Drupal. Come learn how to close deals and keep your customers coming back for of your secret sauce. Key points to be... |
Beginner Community |
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How to Power a Lean Startup With Drupal Do you have a product idea you want to get off the ground? Does it seem like you never have the time, or are you finding yourself or your team focusing on the wrong things for too long? |
Intermediate Community |
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How to keep your Drupal site secure I'll provide an introduction to securing your Drupal site, geared toward folks who aren't very experienced with this sort of thing. We'll go over some of the common ways that you might... |
Beginner Community |
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Introduction to CiviCRM for Users, Administrators and Integrators CiviCRM is a free, libre and open source software constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy,... |
Beginner Community |
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Growing a Drupal Shop Is Running a Drupal Shop Running You Ragged? This is a fun and interactive workshop for companies trying to grow their business and be more profitable. We dialog about how to grow a... |
Intermediate Community |
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Client Wrangling: Accelerating Discovery and Development for Drupal Projects Client Wrangling™: Accelerating Discovery and Development for Drupal Projects Clients talk Greek |
Intermediate Community |
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Doing More with Less: Building Your Site for Smart Content Strategy Planning your next site build in Drupal, but have limited resources? Learn how to leverage distributions in Drupal to support your site's content strategy. By building your site for a smart... |
Intermediate Community |
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California Government, Drupal and your business: 1) Title: California Government, Drupal and your business: a. Theme: how to break in, especially during in a week economy b. Basics: The workings of today’s California government - 3 tier overview... michael Ross |
Intermediate Community |
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Elections 2012, Drupal and your business Please note: this is a sample outline that can be tailored to fit your specific needs. Additionally, should you want more specific outlines; I have no problem providing them. I look forward to... |
Beginner Community |
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California Legislative Updates: and their impact(s) on you and your business Please note: this is a sample outline that can be tailored to fit your specific needs. Additionally, should you want more specific outlines; I have no problem providing them. I look forward to... |
Beginner Community |
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3 things about Drupal that have driven this Product Manager crazy Drupal is a great platform to develop simple as well as complex websites. Its unique approach sometimes poses interesting challenges for lowly product managers trying to make an honest day's... |
Beginner Community |
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Internet basics: How the web works We're in an amazing time with technology empowering people and cultures to grow, communicate and collaborate at truly incredible speeds. Where can we go and what can we do with the tools of the... |
Beginner Community |
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Drupal 7 UX Study results Three years after our first round of formal usability testing on Drupal 6, the UX team returned to the University of Minnesota in May 2011 to uncover usability issues and patterns for Drupal 7. After... Jen Lampton, brad bowman, Angela Byron, Bojhan Somers, David Rothstein, Dharmesh Mistry |
Beginner Community |
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The new Views user interface: How it works and how it was made Recently, the Drupal 7 version of the Views module got an entirely new user interface, thanks to a months-long partnership between designers and engineers working for Drupal Gardens and major... |
Beginner Community |
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ProBono Drupal Work and Maximizing on Fulfillment: The Do's and Dont's of giving and receiving free websites Giving and receiving ProBono Drupal websites is a mixed blessing and usually more difficult than paid work because
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Beginner Community |
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Agile Site Development with Drupal Drupal sites are getting larger and more sophisticated, with aggressive deadlines and budgets. In this session we will cover a number of ways you can incorporate agile methodologies into your... |
Intermediate Community |
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How Drupal products can take the project to the next level. Focusing on e-commerce via Drupal Commerce as an example, this session will provide an overview how and why Drupal products can be the next watershed moment for the Drupal project. |
Beginner Community |
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Build a photo gallery / portfolio website Image galleries or portfolio websites can be made with ease with Drupal. This session I will demonstrate how to batch import images into the file system and render out an image gallery or... |
Beginner Community |
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Getting your module maintainers to love you - or at least help you Positive interactions in the issue queue are an underrated form of contribution to Drupal. If you've ever needed help with Drupal, Core or Contributed modules, or you're new to Drupal and don't... |
Beginner Community |
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Finding Your Drupal Niche Have you noticed a couple of interesting phenomenon lately? 1. The most well-known companies in Drupal are specialists in a Drupal niche (training, support, hosting, seo, government,... |
Advanced Community |
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The Prairie Initiative: Making drupal.org an effective place to collaborate Ever since DrupalCon Chicago, a group of us within the Drupal Community have been rallying around an effort known as the Prairie Initiative... |
Beginner Community |
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How does Drupal Security Stack Up? Note: this is more of a guided conversation than a presentation. Let's come and talk about how Drupal's Security fits into the bigger world of web application security. Are we... |
Intermediate Community |
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Meet the Drupal Association Who are we and what do we do? Come join us to learn more about your Drupal Association. The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit educational organization that tasks itself with fostering... |
Beginner Community |
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All About Drupal Modules! This is a practical session talking about Drupal Modules! I will cover what modules are, how to find and choose the right modules, and how to install modules in both Drupal 6 and 7. If there is... |
Beginner Site building |
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Intro to views Use views to create lists of content in Drupal 7. Learn how to build a view that has multiple displays, using the whole node or just fields in the list. Customizing the way fields are displayed, and... Mark Ferree |
Beginner Site building |
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Using Panels To Make A Smarter Page There is much you can do with Drupal and Panels. In this session I am looking to introduce people to one of the great and flexible options available in Panels... a node panel. It sounds innocent... |
Beginner Site building |
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Content optimization & SEO: secret weapons for driving traffic Drupal gives you a wealth of tools for engaging visitors. It has a great architecture for driving traffic from search engines, blogs and social media. Yet most sites produce anemic traffic from... |
Beginner Site building |
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Building a Multilanguage Site In this session, the building blocks for a multilingual web-site will be defined, and a simple demo site will be built, including the following and more:
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Beginner Site building |
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Calendaring with Drupal Most people visualize events in a daily, weekly, or monthly calendar format, so using Drupal to create and manage calendars is a desirable feature for many sites. Since Drupal 4.7, the... |
Intermediate Site building |
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What You See Is (not always) What you Get (but it can be) 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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How to Defeat "Spam", your website's worst enemy Drupal based websites are a major target for scalpers, hackers, spammers and automated bots. By the end of the session you will: 1. Get a demo of a new, robust spam-protection tool... |
Beginner Site building |
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Top Modules for Drupal 6.x More than three score and ten useful contributed modules for building Drupal sites. This whirlwind tour will touch on a variety of contributed modules to take your site beyond the basics of... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Features in the Real World: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly The Features module is a must when developing Drupal sites to ensure you keep as much configuration as possible in code as well as to help facilitate sharing configuration between developers and... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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The Logic and Styling of an Ubercart Cart : part 2 To extend the proposed session "The Logic and Styling of an Ubercart Cart - part 1" past the complexity cutoff for developers this session will discuss the customization and development of... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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DNS, Headers, Ping, Traceroute, Whois : Networking Tools for Drupal 6.x. With many of the new drupal hosting solutions we find a super-site system of some sort; Drush, Aegir, Pantheon, Gardens, etc. acting as a sites manager. |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Contributing to Drupal -- Issue Queues, Patchwork, Sandboxes, etc. Contributing back to drupal can be a rewarding experience both in karma, reputation, and getting other people to test that code you just wrote that hopefully won't produce any bugs later. * Issue... H Fox |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Working with Media in D7 It's been a long time coming, but in D7 media is finally more than field added to a node. Clients, designers, and developers can all rejoice when video added with a WYSIWYG editor to the... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Become a Ninja Site Builder with Panels, Views, Contexts Panels, how to use them. Build a web site using Panels as the layout... Jumoke Adekanmi |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Basic PHP for Better Drupal Snippet Use Often enough non-programmers will find themselves copy and pasting a snippit of code that mostly meets their need but not quite. Then they'll try adjusting it, but without knowing what they're... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Drupal is a RAD (Rapid Application Developement) Environment Step beyond creating websites with Drupal and start creating applications. Using a number of plugins Drupal can be used to create database applications for any environment... Without writing a... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Know where the fire is (Monitoring Drupal Sites) Drupal shops often grow organically with staff members providing their own support. Monitoring the status of a site or equipment is often not in the equation. How can we provide monitoring and... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Using GIT, Unfuddle, WebEnabled for one cool revision system Have you been working on our local machine on a new project. Now you are at the point where you need to get your initial progress where the client can do some content entry, or perhaps a second... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Creating Custom Field Types is Easy! Why you'd want to create your own Field types (or maybe why you shouldn't) and how. A step-by-step tutorial. Presented by Ninjitsu Web Development... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Keeping your Drupal Site Secure & Working with the Drupal Security Team Topics: - Avoiding common configuration mistakes |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Integrating with Facebook: what it means and how to do it Hi all! Hope you enjoyed the session. If you'd like another go-around on Facebook integration, with updated information (a lot can change in 6 months!) and live examples, I've submitted a follow... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Crash course in php programming I will give a quick introduction to fundamentals of php programming. Basic knowledge of php is important to understand how drupal build and displays pages. Starting with what are... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Building Beautiful, Dynamic Forms in Drupal 7 Forms aren't just for harvesting information, they're opportunities to build serious karma with your audience and set the right atmosphere on your site. In this session, I talk you through some... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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State of Media in Drupal 7 and beyond Handing media has always been a painful feature in Drupal. With Drupal 7, changes to Drupal Core provided major steps forward. Drupal Core now includes file and image fields which provide users... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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MailChimp 2.0: Anatomy of a Drupal module rewrite MailChimp is a leading and very innovative provider of email marketing services. Lev Tsypin |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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After the Confetti: You've Launched! Now What? The champagne has been poured and everyone's thrilled with your awesome project. You've made it through the crazy project changes, the scope creep, the signoff that wasn't sign-off but you didn't... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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dog: A New Era for Drupal Sitebuilding (This is a replay of my Drupalcon London session, tweaked and updated to reflect new progress). ...Sam Boyer |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Beginning Git Earlier this year, the Drupal community switched from the CVS version control system to Git, the distributed version control system that's sweeping the world. In this session, I will: ...Shawn DeArmond |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Introduction to Module Development This session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on, and covers... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Drupal and Node.js Drupal is a powerful, flexible platform for building applications, but not something that handles realtime notifcations easily. Node.js is a breath of fresh... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Making Beautiful Maps in Drupal You could put some markers on a Google Map (and that's alright), but is that really gonna go with your design, or is it really going to tell the story you want your users to see? I'll talk about... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Real world deployment Learn how to use features, drush, and git to create seamless workflow from development to production. These are the techniques that the large Drupal shops use to work as a team and build large... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Optimizing Drupal on Windows IIS 7.5 is a perfect environment to deploy highly scalable and performant PHP applications. During this hour you will learn how to deploy a Drupal web site on Windows Server 2008 R2,... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Display Suite on steriods puts Panels on the run! Build a site using display suite for layout from start to finish. Show us some live sites built on Display Suite and show how it was done - if possible, take us deep into the configurations. Tell us... Jumoke Adekanmi |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Understanding Hooks Drupal’s hook system is one of its most powerful features. Get introduced to what a hook looks like, why you should understand them, and why you should use them. Kevin Kaland, Oliver Seldman |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Commons: Building amazing communities without proprietary software We know that Drupal and open source software are disruptive technologies, but the connection between awesome contributions and market wins over proprietary software is not always clear. The... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Build an App for Drupal7 Have a great piece of Drupal functionality that you'd like to see used in D7 Drupal distributions? Why not build an app for it? The Drupal Apps module was built to solve a common technical... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Beans, Beans - They're Good For Your...Editors This session will introduce the Bean module, developed for Energy.gov by Treehouse Agency. Neil Hastings |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Building Truly Successful Web Projects – The Method that ends the Madness For decades the gold standard for measuring project success has been the project management iron triangle; on time, on budget, on scope. Despite increasingly more rigorous planning strategies, the... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Better Local QA Testing with Vagrant and Puppet Many issues can arise from developers not testing with the proper versions of software on their local machines, but the average Drupal hosting stack is growing in complexity, with many sites... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Distributing Drupal Content Through Custom Feeds At Common Sense Media we partner with several well-known companies (Best Buy, NBC Universal, Comcast among others) who are licensed to re-package our reviews of various media content available on... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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LEMON- Drupal diseases and cures 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 Code & Develop |
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Best Practices for Development and Deployment A best practice Drupal workflow starts with local development, testing in a staging environment, and structure deployment to a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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VoIP for Drupal: Turning Drupal into a phone system Using cloud telephony services or open source software, you can build complex voice applications with Drupal and the VoIP Drupal module. We'll do a quick demo of the module, talk about it's... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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The Drupal Staging Problem I'm using Dominique De Cooman's term, "the Drupal Staging Problem," to refer to the trouble that most large Drupal sites have... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Facebook Applications, Powered by Drupal This presentation will cover the "Facebook Platform" and the different ways a website can integrate with Facebook, with emphasis on ... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Debugging Techniques for Drupal and LAMP A general approach to debugging Drupal problems will be presented, followed by an overview of a variety of tools such as the Devel suite, krumo, xdebug, client side debugging such as Firebug and... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Simple DevOps Using Jenkins You will learn how to install Jenkins, use it to automatically backup Drupal sites, promote changes from development to staging to production, roll back failed changes, and perform some simple... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Using Drupal as an Application Development Platform Drupal isn't a content management system. It's an application development platform that happens to ship with a great CMS as its default implementation. Look at any chart comparing features... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Aphorisms of API design Part of the Software Engineering Double Feature... Code that talks only to itself is not useful to anyone. Code that enables other code magnifies its power 10-fold. But how do we... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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This code stinks! "Code smell" refers to hints and patterns within code that can be a tip off that something is wrong. Learning to recognize code smells is a critical skill in software engineering. If you can sniff... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Fill PDF module: Web form data in, completed PDF form out If you work in or serve a paperwork-heavy industry, such as real estate, the government, education/schools, law, or sports, you may find that the delay between sending out a PDF form to complete and... Kevin Kaland |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Multistep forms with the CTools wizard Multistep forms in any system are anything but simple and easy. And with Drupal's Form API, multi step forms are even more complicated. The Chaos Tool Suite provides a wizard tool to try... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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The Panels and Page Manager Family The Panels family of modules has grown into a broad system that can do a great many things. This talk takes a bird's eye view of what's in this family of modules, who they're for and what they do... |
Beginner Code & Develop |
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Drupal Commerce - Why It's Awesome Drupal commerce is a new Drupal based E-commerce solution from the Commerce Guys. It’s built on D7 and uses extensive views integration, which makes it so much more easily configurable than it’s... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Providing a versioned public API using Services Providing a public facing API for a site can be a very powerful tool, but without version things can end up in a mess. Versioning ensures that changes can be made to the API without disrupting... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Outsource Drupal Permission check to Varnish One of the biggest challenges regarding Drupal and Performance is having a big amount of logged in concurrent users using your system. There are already some universal techniques that are... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Building Mobile Apps using Drupal as Base Well no need to explain why mobile apps are important! At present you can't really ignore the iOS and Android platforms. Both these technologies have great potential to use our existing web based... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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High Performance Cloud Hosting for Drupal - A Howto This session will cover a variety of techniques and systems to create a high-performance web hosting environment tailored to Drupal. We will cover tuning Apache and MySQL, as well as adding... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Apache Solr search for Drupal Standard Drupal search is always a bottleneck when your site starts to grow. There are some options to outsource search load to stand-alone full-text search server like Solr. This session... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Getting it into Drupal with Migrate Migrate module is a powerful tool for importing, transforming and syncing content from external sources into Drupal. The power comes from an object oriented API that's tricky to get started with.... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Drush 5 This session will show off some of the cool new features in Drush 5 (and perhaps a few Drush 4 features you didn't even know existed!) and describe how you might incorporate them into your day to... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Using Views Programatically This session will cover progressing beyond simply configuring and using views to creating and modifying views programmatically with both views hooks and views templates. Jason Yee |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Prepare to Scale "Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan." - Harvey Mackay Creating scalable and high-performing websites is both an art and a science. Some of the concepts can take days, weeks,... |
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Searching with Apache Solr Apache Solr is an open source search platform. It is based on Lucene, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Drupal provides a module called... |
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Distributing your eggs with Acquia Cloud Acquia Cloud now supports multi-region/multi-datacenter replication and failover. We can now sync code, files and databases securely across regions and continents. This talk covers the details... |
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Introducing Drupal SEO Grader At Drupalcon London Acquia and Volacci released the Drupal SEO Grader. SEO Grader, powered by Volacci, provides an internet marketing review optimized for Drupal. SEO Grader:
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Converting views and Content types into modules without coding. You have labored to set up your Drupal 7 site and have created views and custom content types, and now someone wants you to make a similar site. We will use... |
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Cloud Module - Drupal as a Cloud Computing Platform Introducing Cloud module - Drupal as a Cloud Computing Platform with Live Demo!. We've developed our cloud computing platform by Drupal. Yas Naoi |
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Introduction to JQuery Back by popular demand, it's the Introduction to jQuery session. JQuery is the handy and amazing JavaScript library that powers Drupal's dynamic functionality like expandable fieldsets,... |
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Preying on the drupal_alter() When you're building your next Drupal project, The chances are pretty good that at some point you'll find Drupal is doing it wrong. The good news is that Drupal 7 core alone gives you around 80... |
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X.com : Case Study of Drupal for Enterprise X.com is the web property for the newly formed X.commerce. It serves as |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Relation Relation is a new module to create relationships between entities. In this session you will see some of the feature of this extremely powerful module. See how easy it is to create one relation... |
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Relation / Entity Tree This is a programmer oriented session about the challenges relation entities, especially a lot of them in some of hierarchy present. We will discuss how the "textbook solutions" dont work and we... |
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Breaking the Magician's Code: Drupal Magic Demystified You can be simply browsing your site or doing the most menial configuration task on your website and always rest easy that Drupal is in the background "magically" doing the work. In this... |
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Beyond WYSIWYG + Comments: Web Engagement is the New CMS While you were busy with Drupal 7, the CMS landscape changed. It turns out that Marketing Matters, whether you're a non-profit or a money-grubbing corporation. Other CMS tools are now providing... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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Stay Frosty: Making Drupal Rock with the Snowman Project For years, we've joked that Drupal's "out of the box" experience is the world's most complicated blog. At first glance, Drupal Core is a vanilla mix of features and configuration screens that... |
Intermediate Code & Develop |
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NewsQL 2011 September have seen major releases for three major NoSQL players -- Cassandra, Riak and MongoDB. Many things you might have read before about these are no longer true. In this very practical... |
Advanced Code & Develop |
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Page Render Drill Down in Drupal 7 Join Moshe Weitzman (http://drupal.org/moshe) for a deep dive into the page render system for Drupal 7. We'll learn how to... |
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Drupal as a CRM Platform As anyone who uses Salesforce or CiviCRM with Drupal already knows, collecting contact information from users can be challenging. In order to effectively manage information about your users, you... |
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Adding & Editing Content & Images on your Site using WYSIWYG When I develop a Website for a customer, one of their biggest pain points seems to be gettting content to be properly formatted in their pages. They don't know HTML and so it's important to help... |
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Devops for Drupal Deploying your Drupal site, Upgrading your Drupal Site, Scaling, Clustering and Monitoring it ... all topics Developers are often not involved with ... "Some call this phenomenon devops,... |
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