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Session | Experience level | Track |
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A Bulletproof Approach to Theming Theming is not rocket science, but it can be difficult being a themer on Drupal projects that are larger in scale. Often you find yourself being pulled into projects at an especially unfortunate... |
Intermediate | Design, UX and Theming |
Adaptive, Responsive, Mobile First and Drupal Theming for the Future with HTML5, CSS3 and Omega As designers/themers we've always been pressed with dealing with screen sizes. I remember the days when we had to worry how many of our site visitors used a 800x600 screen resolution and when we... |
Intermediate | Design, UX and Theming |
Aegir-Based Business Models Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. At Koumbit... |
Intermediate | Business and Best Practices |
Aegir: One Drupal to Rule Them All! , This session will illustrate the use of the Aegir hosting system to simplify the life of developers and administrators, by automating the common tasks involved in deploying and managing sites.... |
Beginner | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
An Introduction to Form Builder - A New Interface for Fields Through the history of Drupal, there have been several different modules that allow the building of forms: Profile, Flexinode, Survey, Webform, CCK, and D7's Field. All of these set out with... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Bounty.com - Performance and Scalability Jonathan Anthony, former CTO of Bounty, will be presenting the adoption of Drupal for bounty.com, which is the second biggest Drupal Web site in the UK. |
Business Day | |
Bridging the Gap Between Desktop and Mobile Publishing with Drupal While mobile websites are becoming a commodity, many developers still struggle with the task of connecting their Drupal sites with the mobile and tablet world. Thousands of desktop focused sites... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Building and Maintaining a Distribution in Drupal 7 with Features , Drupal 7 allows to easily build and maintain distributions, i.e. repeatable website templates; you can benefit from this in all cases, whether you aim at large-scale deployments or even at... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Building Your Drupal Products the Right Way: Customer Development and Business Model Generation in a Lean Startup Every day more and more companies start using Drupal and the day will come when it'll make all the difference if you are more than just-another-Drupal-shop. Drupal is a very... |
Intermediate | Business and Best Practices |
Chorion: Migrating and Consolidating Localised Branded Web Sites With Drupal Chorion is the owner of a number of major brands which it develops globally through the production of family entertainment. Historically Chorion has developed rich flash-based web sites for each... |
Business Day | |
Content Staging and Deployments in Drupal 7 , Content staging and deployment strategies are something that many site builders are fighting with. Publishers wants to preview and optimize content or whole sections of a site, before... |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
Continuous Integration Will Solve Everything Continuous integration(CI) is the process of which a system is integrated on a continuous basis, leading to multiple integrations in a development cycle. This provides a means to monitor the... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Contributing Without Code When you think about contributing to Drupal your first thought is usually of patching bugs and writing new features. If you are not a developer, don't worry! There is a huge opportunity to... |
Beginner | Ecosystem |
Creating and Measuring the User Experience This session will cover:
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Beginner | Design, UX and Theming |
Damn Quick Drupal: How to Make Drupal Perform and Scale Like a Rockstar! I've often heard folks complain that Drupal doesn't scale well and has issues with performance. You'll hear people saying it isn't suited for large sites, or that it is bloated and too slow. A... |
Advanced | Code & Coders |
Data Migration into Drupal update: slides posted to Slideshare So, your client has seen the light and is tossing out their old CMS... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Developing with Drupal Commerce , , , Some of the earliest and most complex deployments of Drupal Commerce have been developed in Europe, including Eurocentres for global language course sales... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
dog: A New Era for Drupal Sitebuilding Dog is a new approach building Drupal sites that deeply embraces Git in order to build portable, deployable Drupal site packages. Dog makes the process... |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
Doing Drupal Security Right Drupal strives to be a very secure system by design, but it comes with responsibilities for the site architect, maintainer and even the sysadmin to take into account. This session aims at... |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
Don't Design Websites. Design Web SYSTEMS! , Update 2011-08-25: Slides can be downloaded here. Due to file size restrictions, we had to remove many of the image-heavy slides. You can... |
Intermediate | Design, UX and Theming |
Drupal as Base System For Your iPhone Android iPad Apps 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 | Business and Best Practices |
Drupal Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances , , , Drupal is a growing and maturing industry. The typical Drupal business is no longer just a small sole proprietor, trying to make ends meet. There is now a wide range of businesses working with... |
Beginner | Business and Best Practices |
Drupal Module Developer Challenge by Tropo: Kick-Off Read more about it here. |
Day Stage | |
Drupal Module Developer Challenge by Tropo: Winners Announced and Entries Demoed Read more about it here |
Day Stage | |
Drupal On a Dime , You already know Drupal is capable of doing almost anything... for a price. But what about those looking to leverage Drupal on a tight budget and timeline? Is it possible to build a kick-butt site... |
Beginner | Business and Best Practices |
Drush Deploy , From small sites to large, drush is an essential tool in a drupal deployment strategy. Many of us are already using commands like rsync, sql-sync, features-revert, and updatedb as steps in our... |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
E-Commerce - The Benefits of Using Drupal , , More information is coming soon |
Day Stage | |
Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well. Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-... |
Beginner | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
Eating the Elephant - Managing a Big Drupal Project , So what's it like to manage a huge Drupal project with over 100 people on the team, a multi million pound project budget, and demanding clients? Colin Sweetman and Al Croston of Axis12... |
Intermediate | Business and Best Practices |
Entities - Emerging Patterns of Usage Entities are a powerful new abstraction introduced in Drupal 7 that can provide new ways to approach and resolve several often-encountered development problems. Questions remain though as to when... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Forensic Theming: Key Techniques to Building Effective Drupal Themes The theme of your website has the capacity for beautiful, semantic markup...and also the hacky HTML soup. You can build a new theme by downloading a free theme and tearing out its guts--or you can... |
Beginner | Design, UX and Theming |
Free Software and You , So you've taken the plunge into Drupal and you know that it's open source. But what does that mean in practice? Free and Open Source Software means more than just no licensing costs. In... |
Intermediate | Ecosystem |
Hollywood Storytelling and the Drupal Development Process Finding the best way to approach Drupal site development can be a daunting task. Not only do projects vary widely in size, scope, and team composition, but there are also several different... |
Beginner | Business and Best Practices |
How Do You Know that Gal Knows Drupal? Towards an Open Source Curriculum and a Community-Based Accreditation Scheme for Drupal , As Drupal grows, so do the challenges of identifying and developing Drupal talent. Gone are the days that a look at the issue queues of various projects could identify all the key talent available... |
Intermediate | Ecosystem |
How to Have an Open Relationship... With Software (and Still Make the Paper) You love Drupal. You love Linux. You have a pet penguin and you recompile your kernel daily. So what, at the end of the day, you've got to pay your mortgage, and last time I checked, the bank... |
Intermediate | Ecosystem |
How to Theme Like A Rockstar Theming a site is NOT doing a grid, modifying the CSS & changing a bit of HTML - Theming starts when the first field is created! This is where Design, UX, Drupal stuff, functionality... |
Intermediate | Design, UX and Theming |
I'm Leaving You: The Risks of Dumping Your Old CMS for Drupal and How to Manage Them In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal... |
Beginner | Business and Best Practices |
Integration with External Services (APIs, web applications, mobile) , In this session we'll share how to integrate Drupal other web based or enterprise services. More precisely:
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Day Stage | |
Living, Breathing, Drupal: The Biology of the Request Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a linear system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Mad Skillz: Become the Best in the World Are you a themer or developer who wants to work on bigger, more complicated projects? Do you want to send your resume to top Drupal shops and get hired? Do you want to assess and approve your... |
Intermediate | Ecosystem |
Making Your Theme Scale With Your Brand , Brands grow organically and often undergo complete re-design. How do you prepare for change and build a scalable brand? Our session will show how, when you theme effectively, Drupal has the power... |
Intermediate | Design, UX and Theming |
Managing Localized & Multi-site Environments , Drupal's multi-site and multi-lingual features make it possible to host a large number of sites, in many different languages on the same drupal installation. Making the most of this power presents... |
Day Stage | |
Meet the Drupal Association and DrupalCon The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit trade organization that tasks itself with fostering and supporting the Drupal software project, the community and its growth. Created in 2006 by a group... |
Beginner | Ecosystem |
Minnesota Usability Study : What Do Users Have to Say About Drupal 7? , , 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.... |
Beginner | Design, UX and Theming |
Multilingual Drupal Solutions: Use Cases and Modules , Building multilingual websites is hard. It's hard because there are many different decisions that need to be made, touching everything from business logic to technical considerations. ... |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
Node.js and Drupal , Drupal is a powerful, flexible platform for building applications, but not something that handles realtime notifcations easily. Node.js is a breath of fresh... |
Intermediate | Code & Coders |
Of Constraints and Capabilities: Applying Systems Thinking to Design the Ideal Experience , In software design and development we often overlook the role of our customers in applying their own capabilities to achieve their goals, often creating solutions that are bloated, complex, and... |
Beginner | Design, UX and Theming |
OG7 - This Time It's On! OG7 - the one that should have been in Drupalcon Chicago, but this time, I'll even be there! Learn about all the new stuff OG7 has. |
Intermediate | Site Building and Environment Set-up |
OXFAM + Drupal = Great , Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in 98 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Since they need to communicate quickly and richly... |
Intermediate | Business and Best Practices |
Product, Framework, or Platform? What They Mean, And Why You Should Care As Drupal's popularity has grown, its core audience of hobbyist developers has exploded into an international community of businesses, nonprofits, independent developers, startups, and governments... |
Intermediate | Ecosystem |