San Francisco

Building fast websites is surprisingly straight forward - building them with Drupal is less-so.

In this talk I cover modern performance techniques, and how to go about accomplishing them with Drupal. I provide real world examples of these techniques, and easy ways of using them on any Drupal project.

Topics include:

Performance measurement tools

The critical path and how to optimize for it

Responsive Images

SVG icons

Cutting the Mustard

As the concept of “progressive decoupling” gains traction in the Drupal community, existing use cases where such implementations have proven their value can be instrumental in guiding our path forward. Weather.com is a perfect example of a scenario where a large Drupal site had to balance the needs of performance, maintainability and innovation, while providing tools that would allow both content editors and developers to move rapidly and independently.

Come celebrate the release of Drupal 8 with Chapter Three!

We're hosting a San Francisco Drupal 8 Release Party – be here when we usher in 8.0 and congratulate Drupal 8 Core Maintainer Alex Pott live!

Munch down on free tacos, margaritas, beer, wine and cider. Our first guests receive an exclusive Drupal 8 Release T-shirt!

Eat (tacos), drink (margaritas), be merry and Celebr8 D8!

Join us on Thursday, November 19 as we celebrate the release of Drupal 8 in San Francisco! A lot of hard work has poured into the development of D8, and now it’s time to celebrate in style.

The party will be held in the 12th floor penthouse of the historic Hamms building in the Mission District. We know what you’re wondering, and, yes, the view of the city is stunning from there!

Update: new dates! October 22-25, 2015

Your favorite Drupal event is back! This year, BADCamp returns to Berkeley for another four days of sprints, summits, sessions, trainings, parties, donuts, and general mayhem. More details soon!

And as ever, BADCamp is entirely free. We can't wait to see you there!

This year, BADCamp returns to Berkeley for another four days of sprints, summits, sessions, trainings, parties, donuts, and general mayhem. More details soon!

And as ever, BADCamp is entirely free. We can't wait to see you there!

Calling all developers, designers, scientists, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, students and activists!

Join San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking (part of National Day of Civic Hacking) to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking is a collaboration between Code for San Francisco (http://codeforsanfrancisco.org) and San Francisco State University (http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/).

Ok this month we got a great one. Joshua Turton from Phase2 Technology is coming down to talk about the Omega Theme and how to get a site setup in about 45 minutes. Omega is a really cool theme to work with.

This session will cover the basics of using Omega to build a responsive, grid-based layout without writing a line of code. We will cover conceptualization, theme settings, zone/region/section distinction, and configuration management.

It will also cover the newest features available from version 4.x, now in alpha release

Drupal 8 has a new theme engine: Twig. Twig provides several advantages over PHPtemplate, our previous theme engine, including: Security, Performance (probably), and Ease of Use.

In this session We'll point out some of the problems we faced with PHPTemplate and Renderables, and show how these issues are being addressed through the move to Twig. There's still a lot to do, and some things we still haven't decided on yet, but we're definitely making progress.

Topic
Entities in Drupal 7 & the Entity API

Synopsis
With every major version of Drupal comes a wealth of improvements. Some of these are easily visible to site administrators and end users, while others are more "under the hood". The concept of entities, introduced in Drupal 7, is definitely an "under the hood" improvement: one that offers Drupal developers a new set of tools to build web applications more quickly and help ensure scalability and performance.

In this interactive talk, we'll: