Curriculum and Training

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Call Ms. Dera Williams at Merritt College, Oakland, California (510) 436-2413
Tell her that you want to enroll in EDT 801 Class Code 24295
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Cost: $ 130
Class completely online, class materials run by Moodle
Scheduled interactions via Elluminate

More information: http://opensourcecollege.org/enroll-merritt
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Enrollments: Phone Ms. Dera Williams at Merritt College, Oakland, California (510) 436-2413

Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.

In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.

Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.

Time for another meeting to talk about Drupal skill sets and open curriculum – where we are, what is happening and where we want to go.
Meeting will be held on IRC (Freenode), channel #drupal-skillmap.

Date: Thursday December 8th
Time: 8 pm Swedish time (meaning 7 pm London time, or 2 pm New York time) – check http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_SE.aspx to calibrate your clock

Things we can discuss:

• Lin's awesome prototype on adding microdata to blogs and things.
• Any skill set descriptions we think should be changed?

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Someone with Writing secure code skills:

• knows how to handle user input securely (using check_plain() and t(), using filter_xss(), using filter_xss_admin(), ...)
• knows how to handle URLs securely
• is able to make queries secure against SQL Injection by using the database API: e.g. db_query(), adding the node_access tag

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Someone with advanced theming skills:

• is able to create grid based layouts (960 grid systems)
• is able to create themes/design that responds to size, orientation and other relevant properties of the browser + media being used (responsive layout design).
• knows how to create jQuery based interactions
  *...

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

The goal of requirement analysis is determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users.

Someone with requirement analysis skills:

• knows how to identify the stakeholders of a project

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Interaction design is heavily focused on satisfying the needs and desires of the people who will use the product.

Someone with interaction design skills:

• knows how to define the workflow for website users as they interact with the website to perform specific tasks

We’ve all seen the increase in demand for quality Drupal skills, which is why we have put together a comprehensive 12 course syllabus of Drupal training courses. These courses cover all levels of Drupal development, for both Drupal 6 and 7. We’ve tailored these courses so that you can get your condensed, high quality Drupal training at a venue that suits you.

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Someone with community participation skills:

• Has joined a regional or interest group (or groups) on groups.drupal.org
• Takes part in discussions in groups to which they belong
• Participates in Drupal meetups
• Answers questions in forums
• Contributes to/edits drupal.org documentation