DrupalCon London 2011 - site building

Multilingual Drupal Solutions: Use Cases and Modules

floretan — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:49:35 +0000

Florian Loretan

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.

Every multilingual website is different: different countries, different languages, different organizational structures, different redaction workflows and cultural considerations on top of that. Drupal has the tools to address all of these issues, but being faced with the seemingly endless combinations of parameters can be discouraging.

Intended Audience:

Site builders wanting to get a better grasp of multilingual solutions for Drupal.

Questions answered by this session:

How do I create a simple multilingual blog? An international corporate website?

What is the difference between translation and localization? Which one should I use when?

What are the current possibilities and limitations of multilingual solutions for Drupal?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 10:30 - 11:30

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

Multilingual_Drupal_solutions.pdf

The Rules Way of Life

fago — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:34:44 +0000

Wolfgang Ziegler

Klaus Purer

Rules 2 for Drupal 7 is a powerful module that can ease your life as site builder drastically. This session will show best practices, tips & tricks and present how Rules can work together with other modules to gain even more power!

In particular, we’ll show what the holy four – rules, views, message & flag – can achieve together!

Have you ever heard the sentence “there is a module for that”? Replace it with “there is a rule for that” ;-) The flexibility of Rules with its intelligent data selector widget enables you to access any entity and property in a very fast way (no more PHP eval() like in Rules 1.x). We will show you all the awesome concepts in Rules:

Direct input including tokens and the Data Selector
Use Rules components and start re-using configurations
Make use of loops & lists
Learn about recent developments (also including the Google Summer of Code project)

Furthermore we show how popular use-cases can be implemented with Rules and build them into regular Drupal modules using Features. Stop coding custom modules, start using the power of Rules & Drupal’s ecosystem!

We'll show how one or more of those examples could be built:

Editorial workflows
Scheduled publishing
Notifications

In addition, we’ll show how developers can make use of the Rules API and create handy functionality just by writing some basic glue code.

Intended Audience:

Site builders, who are familiar with Drupal tools like Fields & Views

Questions answered by this session:

How can I leverage the full power of Rules?

What modules play well with Rules?

How can I replace whole modules with the holy four?

What’s going on in the ecosystem around Rules?

I don’t want to write code, what can I do with Drupal?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 17:00 - 18:00

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

praes.pdf

dog: A New Era for Drupal Sitebuilding

sdboyer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:06:18 +0000

Sam Boyer

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 of developing, managing, and maintaining a Drupal site easier for everyone from the individual hobbyist to multi-cluster-backed Drupal sites with teams of developers.

Intended Audience:

Anyone who cares about workflows for putting together Drupal sites.

Questions answered by this session:

How can I use dog to build my basic Drupal site?

How can my company use dog to assist/improve our internal development workflow?

How does dog integrate with external tools, such as build systems, configuration management, etc.?

What does dog mean for Drupal distributions?

How does dog connect with existing Drupal "packaging" techniques, like drush make and site tarballs?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 15:00 - 16:00

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

dclondon-dog-session.pdf