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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

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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!?!

If you're developing for Drupal there are dozens of freeware and shareware applications along with some handy gizmos and web services that can ease the pain of development, particularly if you're running a MacBook, iMac or Mac Mini. This session is for people with intermediate skills who know how to get Drupal running on MAMP but need a clue or two about version control, text editors, browser plugins and the rest of the tools that maximize your time and effort.

An basic introduction to Git, where drupal.org version control is heading, and how you can start using Git today. This presentation will be primarily focused towards (Git) beginners (no prior knowledge necessary), however hopefully I will be able to introduce some more advanced Git commands and tricks near the end.

This session is squarely targeted at the new to Drupal.

Menus are definitely a challenge to the "new to Drupaller". It all starts with the poor naming - primary menu? secondary menu? It doesn't help that various commonly used themes tend to throw these menus hither and thither. Two level menus? Oh yeah, that's intuitive - NOT.