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frankcarey's picture

Building Features and Exportables: The Wave of the Drupal Future

Description

Exportables have become all the rage in drupal over the last year or so. They go a long way to solve the long standing issue in drupal that not only is content stored in the database, but much of the configuration of the site as well. That configuration is what makes your site different from the basic install that drupal ships with, and often is the real "work" in creating a drupal site. Because it lives in the database, it makes it hard to:

  • Track changes to configurations overtime
  • Store backups of just the configuration
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frankcarey's picture

Views for Module Developers

Description

Views was originally targeted toward site builders to allow them to create lists of users and content without having to know any SQL or php, but it has grown to become an awesome tool for module developers creating custom or contrib modules. In this session we will cover how module developers can leverage the views module in the following ways.

Agenda

  • Easily views enable your module's tables using the table wizard module. Complete with relationships and sorts.
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bshort's picture

Drupal Caching and Some Alternatives

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: How do you create a site that can handle millions of page views per day without crumbling under the load? Caching won't solve all your site problems, but it has to be part of your strategy. In this session we'll cover Drupal's internal caching mechanisms, what Memcache can do for you, the types of scenarios that Varnish can cover, and the whys and wherefores of Edge Caching. We'll discuss the differences between building a static site that can handle thousands of page requests per second, and what it means to your performance when you start adding authenticated users and node edits.

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Alex UA's picture

From a Contractor to a Shop: How to Make the Leap

In this presentation I'll discuss (possibly with co-presenters) the process of going from an independent contractor to a Drupal development shop, and specifically some of the problems I/we have gone through in building Zivtech from 1 to 13 people over the past 2.5 years.

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bshort's picture

Searching for an Answer - How Solr Can Change Your Life

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: How are users going to find your content? Search is one of the biggest issues facing site builders and it's one of the hardest problems to solve. With features such as field weighting, faceted searching, and hit highlighting, in addition to enterprise-level full-text searching, Solr provides a leading alternative to Drupal's built-in search. In this session we'll focus on how to use Solr to provide an incredible search experience to your users with minimal pain.

Agenda

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tom_o_t's picture

Mapping with Drupal and OpenLayers

Duration: 1 hr

There are now loads of different ways to do mapping and deal with geographic data in Drupal. One of the most interesting new(ish) approaches is the OpenLayers module (http://drupal.org/project/openlayers). It integrates the open source OpenLayers javascript library (http://openlayers.org) with views, CCK, and all the other Drupal goodness that we know and love. The thing that got me excited about OpenLayers is how easy it is to customize and extend. It integrates with MapBox (http://mapbox.com) - a service being developed by DevSeed (that recently won a $74,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to further this work). Why is this all so exciting? Come along to the session and learn how to set this up in Drupal and discuss the potential applications.

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WordPress is better than Drupal: developers take note.

Duration: 1 hour

WordPress gets some very important things right, and their hold on this market is proof. There are 11.4 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to only hundreds of thousands of Drupal installations. We need to get our act together, raise our standards, and lower the barrier to entry.

Come join me in talking about what this community needs to do to ensure its survival. What should we really be focusing on in Drupal Core for D8? What should you do with your own modules to prevent our CMS from being abandoned in favor of something else?

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Pimp your admin (interface)

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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  • Using Views Bulk Operations
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    Beginning Module Development for Themers

    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.

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    Steven Merrill's picture

    Hudson: Your Robotic Butler

    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.

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