Beginner

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.

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.

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

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.

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!?!

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.

Drupal for Non-profits, Small Businesses, and Schools will be a 30 minute presentation on how to use Drupal effectively and the most common challenges they will encounter, followed by a discussion involving participant's personal stories and experiences.

Agenda:
1. Why should non-profits, small businesses, and schools consider Drupal?
2. What makes a small environment special?
3. Usability challenges
4. Financial challenges
5. Using Drupal for common non-profit functions
- fundraising
- maps
- press organization
6. Maintenance of Drupal sites
7. The role of volunteers in Drupal