Posted by cfennell on March 17, 2011 at 3:45pm
Hi Gang,
I spent most of my time at Drupalcon Chicago in BoFs, meetings, the coder lounge and Core Conversations this year, so I didn't make many of the session presentations. I figured I'd catch-up on those via recorded versions over at http://www.archive.org/ when I got back. So, I'm wondering if you all wouldn't mind posting your favorite session presentations here. It might be nice to cull a few of the favorites for a periodic showing at the local TC Drupal meetups too.
Thanks!
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favorite sessions
I'm still quite new with Drupal, so my favorites might not be representative... but anyway:
Introduction to Module Development got me the right amount of "fired up"
Advanced Drush, the showing of what's coming even caught my "inexperienced" attention
How To Make Awesomesauce, mortendk wasn't nearly as offensive as I had been cautioned ;)
Git Phase Next, but mostly because of the demo of the drupal powered repository viewer
Tough call
I'll give this some more detailed consideration, but I must say I particularly enjoyed Eaton's "Platypus" session - not technical at all, but lots of big-picture, understanding the ecosystem/community-type stuff.
Wylbur's Top Drupal Session Picks
Here's my favorite sessions in no particular order:
Rocking with HTML5
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/rockin-html5-drupal
Great primer for thinking about the move to HTML5
Views for Hackers
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/views-hackers
Very solid introduction to the inside of views
From Zero to Distribution Features, Profiler and Drush-Make
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/zero-distribution-using-features-...
Very informative for using all these modules
How to make AwesomeSauce
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/how-make-awesomesauce
Morton show the road ahead for theming and D7
Render API
My favorites revolve around the cool render API in D7:
Drupal 7 Javascript for Developers (katbailey, fay)
The Render API in Drupal 7 (Heinzmann)
Building awesome user interfaces with Drupal 7's form, AJAX, and Theme systems (Bronstein)
John Albin gave a nice overview of his menu suite (menu_block, menu_position, menu_item_container, megamenu) in
Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal (Wilkins)
Key takeaways and session notes
My focus at DrupalCon was on finding content related to website strategy from a business administration standpoint. Though there wasn't a lot of content related to that, what was there was very high quality. I wrote a summary with links to my fill notes at http://goingtodrupalcon.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/key-takeaways/
That's a nice rundown!
Thanks for posting your notes
Awesome, thanks guys.
Awesome, thanks guys.