DrupalCampNYC8

Duration
1 hour

Brief description
So you just spent months building a beautiful, usable site. But how usable is it for the content administrators? Did you spend any time at all thinking about how you're site would be used on the back-end?

In this session I will discuss some useful techniques for building functional admin interfaces and tailoring those interfaces to your specific use-case. While this is a usability session, it is not design-related.

Agenda

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This introductory session, I will go over the hook system and it's greatest hits ... giving you strategies to enter the back end. My references with be constructed with designers in mind.

For medium to advanced themers who wanna write custom functionality with modules.

Duration

• 1 hour

Brief description

Continuous integration is a software practice used by agile organizations everywhere. Although it usually relates to compiling code and then running a test suite, the Hudson continuous integration engine can nonetheless be used for a number of tasks to help you maintain optimum Drupal code quality and to make automated site maintenance tasks easy.

Zivtech built Dahon.com, an international folding bike company, in Drupal 6 (see our case study on drupal.org for more details). In this session we'll take you behind the scenes to show how it works.

The most important technical feature of the site is domain access and translation. Not only do different countries require translated content and interface text on their separate subdomains, but the bikes and parts available vary by country.

When writing modules and developing your site a thorough understanding of the best practices for secure coding can protect you from common security risks. Cross-site scripting, despite the abundance of preventative methods, is the most common vulnerability in Drupal code. Attend this session to understand the popular risks faced on the web and what tools you have to prevent them.

Agenda

* Security Risks including XSS, SQL Injection, Access Bypass, and CSRF
* Drupal APIs and secure coding best practices

About the presenter

Duration: 1 hour

So you've played around with some Drupal and are ready to put a site online. How should you host it? What do you need to know to get it set up? How will you keep it up to date and safely backed up?

This session will cover the basics of local development environments, domain names, hosting, the command line, MYSQL dumps and uploads, cron, Drush, backing up, and revision control. After this session you should have an idea of what it takes to get your site live...and keep it from being dead!

This presentation will introduce the Views module, one of the most powerful contributed modules for Drupal. Views allows the selective displaying and filtering of content and is a must learn module for anyone wanting to create websites with Drupal. Learning Views also allows you to tap into the power of the many modules that integrate with Views.

CiviCRM has a really wide feature set. But invariably there will be some specialized function that your client or organization needs. Inspired by Drupals hooks, CiviCRM first added hooks and then an API - now in its second version. You can craft a solution to address that unique function by leveraging Drupal's modularity with CiviCRM's hooks and API.

Agenda

• CiviCRM has Hooks!
• Overview of CiviCRM data model (give the APIs a context)
• Take a Tour of the CiviCRM APIs
• Demo: CiviCRM Relate

The Free Software Foundation designated CiviCRM in April as its recommendation for a "fully featured donor and contact management system for nonprofits". The FSF reinforced it's announcement by adopting CiviCRM for its own use. CiviCRM is also used by Amnesty International, Creative Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation and thousands of smaller organizations around the world. But wait, this is DrupalCamp - what's this have to do with us!?!