April 13 GRupal Meetup

Special guest speaker Ryan Weaver joins us to talk Drupal 8 on April 13!

For more info please head over to our Meetup.com page and join our Meetup.

GRupal - Advanced Drupal Development in Grand Rapids, MI

Ryan Weaver is the documentation lead for the Symfony Framework, trainer and consultant at KnpLabs US, writer for KnpUniversity.com and an avid supporter of open source as a tool to solve serious business problems. Ryan likes to present topics in a narrative way - building real applications and telling a story as you learn and develop. He's a published author, speaker and, most importantly, the husband of the wonderful Leanna Pelham.

Ryan says:

"I'm not a Drupal developer, but I do already know a lot about Drupal 8, like how the routing system works, what a service is, how it relates to a dependency injection container and how the deepest and darkest of Drupal’s request-response workflow looks.

"How? Because I use Symfony. And if you want to get a jumpstart on Drupal 8, you should to. In this talk, we'll double the number of tools you have to solve problems (Drupal + Symfony) and start to unlock all the new important concepts. We'll start with Silex (a microframework based on Symfony), graduate to Symfony, and focus on the pieces that are most interesting to a Drupal 8 developer."