DrupalCon London 2011 - API

Developing with Drupal Commerce

rszrama — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:33:38 +0000

Ryan Szrama

Peter Philipp

Jamie Wiseman

Jakob Torp

Some of the earliest and most complex deployments of Drupal Commerce have been developed in Europe, including Eurocentres for global language course sales, SubHub for subscription management, and traditional physical product sales at augustes.com. These sites' developers have worked their way through the dark corners of the Commerce APIs and really blazed a trail through Drupal 7 site development in general, contributing patches and knowledge upstream to the project and community.

Join us for a panel discussion moderated by Ryan Szrama that explores the experience of these developers and Commerce Guys' own integration team to find out what it's like to develop with Drupal Commerce in preparation for your next big project. Questions will focus on building sites with complex requirements, integrating with third party services, and using Drupal Commerce in Europe.

Intended Audience:

Developers who need to know how to plan and deploy Drupal Commerce sites that integrate with a variety of e-commerce web services and / or require custom solutions based on the core Commerce components and systems.

Questions answered by this session:

How does the core product pricing system work?

How can I customize the buying experience for non-physical product sales?

How should I best integrate with the payment and line item systems?

What should I keep in mind when quoting complex Drupal Commerce projects?

Where can I go for development support and how can I give back?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 11:00 - 12:00

Room:

Ashcroft Theatre

Slides:

Developing with Drupal Commerce.pdf

Slick Data Sharding: How to Develop Scalable Data Applications With Drupal

tobby — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:39:41 +0000

Tobby Hagler

High-traffic websites that capture a lot of data from users often encounter performance problems when database input becomes a bottleneck. High volume user-submitted content (comments, ratings, form submissions, etc.) is typically stored in a single (master) database, and this creates problems not only for scale but also for replication and useful backups. It becomes important to be able to write these sorts of things to other secondary storage locations.

Intended Audience:

Developers looking to build large-volume sites who haven't built massive-scale sites before. Developers looking to build complex applications that need to integrate with Drupal, but won't necessarily need to be <em>in</em> Drupal.

Questions answered by this session:

What is data sharding, and how does it apply to Drupal sites?

Why MongoDB and how can I use it?

How can I use a secondary MySQL database (or database cluster)?

But Drupal's APIs give me what functionality I need. How can I do all of this without reinventing the wheel?

Besides scale, what other advantages do these techniques have?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 15:00 - 16:00

Room:

Maple Room

Slides:

Slick-Data-Sharding.pdf

Theming API

Rolf van de Krol — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:10:35 +0000

Rolf van de Krol

When you are actively working on theming in Drupal, you definitely know how should theme an item list or a table. But, there is a big difference between being able to theme most things in Drupal and really knowing what you are doing and why you are doing it. This is like mathematics. Understanding the logic behind your tools, helps you with creating solutions for problems you've never seen before.

Intended Audience:

Themers, who already know what they want to do, but do not always know how, and more importantly, do not always know why.

Questions answered by this session:

How does the Theming API work under the hood?

How can I use the Theming API the best way?

What is the role if the theme engine in the whole theming process?

What cool stuff can be done using process and preprocess functions and how do they work?

How does the concept of base and sub themes work in the API?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 15:45 - 16:45

Room:

Fairfield Room

Slides:

Presentation v2.pdf