DrupalCon London 2011 - Day Stage

Tools for the Ultimate Drupal Developer Experience

bhouse — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:36:32 +0000

Bryan House

From local development to our proven cloud platform to site management, Acquia gives Drupal developers the ultimate suite of tools to make Drupal development easy and fun. In this session we'll share the latest updates to Dev Cloud and Managed Cloud including Git and Drush support. We will also be demonstrating Insight - our slick new Drupal site monitoring service - along with the other recent enhancements to the Acquia Network. Session attendees will learn how Acquia's ultimate suite of tools will help you be more efficient so you can spend time getting back to the fun part of developing.

bio:

<img src="http://acquia.com/sites/default/files/styles/user_large/public/picture-9.jpg"> Bryan House (@bryanhouse) joined Acquia in 2008 to run product marketing. He came to Acquia from EMC, where he managed product and outbound marketing for Documentum’s knowledge worker business. Prior to EMC, Bryan worked in product marketing and product management in the social business and collaboration technology space, after brewing beer professionally for seven years. Bryan lives in the Boston area and is an ardent Red Sox fan, he earned his MBA at Harvard.

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 13:45 - 14:45

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Day Stage

Drupal Module Developer Challenge by Tropo: Winners Announced and Entries Demoed

akalsey — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:22:40 +0000

Adam Kalsey

E-Commerce - The Benefits of Using Drupal

stewsnooze — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:21:29 +0000

Mike O'Connor

John Ennew

Nikola Kotur

More information is coming soon

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Day Stage

Managing Localized & Multi-site Environments

the greenman — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:19:59 +0000

Alex Dergachev

Andy Stynen

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 technical, methodological and business challenges. Our experienced panel of gold Drupalcon sponsors will share their insights into what it takes to effectively implement these capabilities, share some of their best practice tips and discuss the challenges facing the international Drupal community.

Intended Audience:

Developers, managers and commissioners looking to understand the challenges involved in harnessing Drupal's power as an internationalised platform.

Questions answered by this session:

What super powers do Drupal's multi-site and multi-lingual capabilites offer us?

What are the limitations of these features?

How important are best practices when building and maintaining this kind of site?

Where is Drupal going from here ?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Day Stage

Integration with External Services (APIs, web applications, mobile)

sumitk — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:17:31 +0000

Kalle Varisvirta

Leon Tong

In this session we'll share how to integrate Drupal other web based or enterprise services. More precisely:

How can we make calls between different Drupal instances, even different major versions, to share data and functionality?
Ways to monitor usage and quality of services?
How to use Drupal in TV station sites?
Options discussed before coming to the final decision as Drupal on an implementation path?
Challenges faced in such integrations!
Demos!!

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 15:45 - 16:45

Room:

Day Stage

Scalability and Performance Options

adub — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:16:23 +0000

Maxime Topolov

Mark Brown

Nathan Goulding

David Stuart

NodeOne - Tomas Persson
Talking about how Drupal could move towards the cloud and what we need to think about when we scale a Drupal site for 100.000 users.

Voxel - Sam Machiz, VP of Sales Engineering
Brands such as FastCompany, New York Observer, Human Rights Watch and the National Review all count on Voxel to deliver a high performance Drupal experience for their users. We will look at the technical architecture required to deliver this scale of traffic.

Adyax - Maxime Topolov, Co-founder of Adyax

Questions answered by this session:

How Drupal is different from any other solution in terms of performance?

What are the major differences in addressing performance issues between anonymous and connected traffic?

How do we scale Drupal for logged in users?

How do we handle caching for logged in users?

What kind of technical architecture approaches help with regards to delivering guaranteed QoS in the face of high-volume but spiky traffic?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 14:15 - 15:15

Room:

Day Stage

Drupal Module Developer Challenge by Tropo: Kick-Off

akalsey — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:09:56 +0000

Adam Kalsey