DrupalCampNYC8

The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Join Ben Finklea, founder of Volacci and author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization and Bryan House, Senior Marketing Director, Acquia as they provide a practical walk through showing you which modules to install, which settings to use, and dozens of the most closely guarded “tricks of the trade” to get your web site optimized, higher in the search engines,
and more profitable.

Takeaways include:

Taking concise, actionable steps that increase traffic to your Website

If you aren't using Context yet, you should be. We'll cover the normal usages of Context and related modules, and discuss modules like Views Arg Context, Context: Menu Block, Context Reaction: Theme, Context HTTP Headers, and others... You'll learn something, no matter much you use context now, about new ways to use context in your drupal sites.

What is Context?

Are you ready for Web 3.0? Disruptive collaborative technologies are converging so that your users will dictate how (or if) they interact with your site, and we’ll discuss the early edge of this wave and how Firefox addons (and Chrome/etc in the future) are already showing the way…

We’ll explore a variety of cool Firefox tools and tips, focusing on various addons, with an emphasis on items useful with/for Drupal.

Tools like Firebug and Webdeveloper, as well as more general items like AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and many others will all be discussed in the context of Drupal in particular.

Duration: 1 hour

This session was inspired by Jen Simmons CSS3: The future is Now (http://boston2010.design4drupal.org/sessions/css3-future-now) session at d4d.

The format of this session will be some slides (w/demos) and a show case of Drupal modules already implementing some HTML5 features.

The HTML5 topics I plan on covering are: Canvas, Video, Audio, Web Db, Workers Threads, Web Sockets, File API.

Every developer and power user develops a toolkit of shortcuts and hacks that become second nature. I'd like to present some of the ones I've discovered over the years, and invite ideas from the community to share their own, which I'll include with credit to each contributor.
Some examples -
* SVN shortcut functions to simplify SVN in the terminal,
* Drush shortcuts like getting the size of a database in one command,
* all kinds of terminal "fu" with find, grep, ssh, pipes
* Textmate helpers like the Drupal bundle,
* the Drupal extension and other developer goodies in Chrome,

Duration : 1 hour

After the intro session, just a few things that we have used Drush to solve, and maybe cover a few more of the commands we didn't talk about before, plus would be great to leave 15-20 mins at the end of the session for people other then us to talk about practical things they have done with the power of Drush.

Agenda really is going to be determined by what we get covered in the intro session, and then having a more indepth convesation about how we use Drush, and a little more hands on showing off of the built in Drush commands.

Duration: 1 hour

Just getting people over the hurdle of getting Drush setup and the basics of why you should
1.) What is Drush?
2.) Why is Drush?
3.) Where is Drush?
4.) How to Drush?

This session is going to be tag teamed by Robert (robbiethegeek) Holmes and Thomas (tom_o_t) Turnbull.

About Tom, charming gentleman with the funny accent that is awesome and knows lots of stuff :)
@thomasturnbull

About Robbie, boisterous and passionate gent with a funny accent that is ok (if I do say so myself) and knows a little.

OK, folks time to start this discussion in earnest as per this post - http://groups.drupal.org/node/76388

So for the last 3+ camps DrupalCampNYC has had a solid intro track. This has consisted of an installfest to assist students in getting set up with a local Wamp, MAMP, etc. environment - followed by 3 to 4 hours of serious hands-on intro to Drupal - usually followed by 2 or 3 intro friendly sessions.

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