Dose of Drupal: What’s New in Drupal 8

If you're considering a platform for your next web development project, startup, or enterprise-scale company, this 2-hour meetup is a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal 8 has to offer and engage with other Drupal experts in Jordan.

During this meetup you will:

• Get to know how to build enterprise-level websites in no time.
• Know the secrets of building top-notch solutions, from the experts.
• Ask the experts, get help in your projects/work.

This event is for: Web Developers (front end and backend), Webmasters.

Where? The Tank, Umniah, King Hussein Business Park

What to Bring? You can bring your laptop to follow along.

Cost? FREE.

Pre-requisites? Basic web-development knowledge, or expert. It works for both.

Do I need to sign up? Yes, please register so we know you're coming on this event

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Event Agenda:

1. Introduction and Welcome
2. Sessions:

   Session 1: 45 mins

   PHP developers, behold for the power of Drupal 8

   By: Rajab Natshah, Senior Software Engineer

   Are you a PHP developer, and want to use Drupal 8 for your project? Or are you a Drupal 7 developer and looking to start your first Drupal 8 project?

   Drupal 8.2.2 is out with lots of things to learn before we start.
   We will have a look at how we can use Drupal 8 to speed up development with all tools and techniques such as, composer, vendors, auto loading, and more.

   • Drupal 8 in action
   • How Drupal 8 does it
   • Nodes/Entities: The secret to Drupal 8's flexibility
   • Collaborative at the core of Drupal 8
   • Get started quickly with Drupal 8, then customize extensively
   • The Drupal 8 flow
   • Get up close and personal with Drupal 8 projects.

   Session 2: 30 mins

   Drupal 8 Performance Enhancements

   By: Yousef Bajawi, Lead Developer

   Learn about the new performance enhancements in Drupal 8 that turns Drupal into a more reliable CMS for high-traffic and resource-demanding websites.

   To the extent of making Drupal behave as a client-side web application (using Facebook's BigPipe technique), you will be introduced to a number of features that would help you better performing websites with Drupal 8.

   We will talk about:

   • Cache tags
   • A "Facebook BigPipe" render pipeline technique
   • Dynamic content substitution
   • "Better" CSS & JS preprocessing

3. Open discussion and coffee

This is a free event sponsored by Vardot www.vardot.com

Questions? Contact Hani Dabit at h.dabit@vardot.com or call 0792866708

Mettup.com RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Jordan/events/235622818/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1770591813190676/