dojo session

I gave a presentation recently to the Mediacurrent staff where I shared my thoughts on integrating 'Feature' development with your normal workflow. I also blogged about it here:
http://mediacurrent.com/blogs/features-everywhere-slidecast. And I plan on going even more in-depth in my DrupalCamp Atlanta session explained here: http://drupalcampatlanta.com/sessions/features-everywhere-feature-driven....

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Web development is hard, very hard – and it’s getting harder. But there is hope, a radically different approach called agile.

If you build websites for a living, you know the pressure. Drupal sites can be complex beasts with thousands of moving parts. Clients have high demands – changing demands. Budgets have never been tighter. If you are going to keep the sites you manage ahead of the competition, you have to innovate – continually. And everything has to be done at the breakneck speed of web time.

I will talk about the QueryPath library, how you can use it with Drupal, and some of the cool things people are doing with it. We will also highlight the progress made by eabrand on her Google Summer of Code work with QueryPath.
Check out http://querypath.org to get a head start on what this is all about.

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RFPs have been integral to building Drupal websites for a long time. And they suck. They hurt everyone. The Client, The Developer, The End Product all suffer at the hands of the RFPs.

Everyone loses.

This session will cover how drupal controls access (who can view, create, edit, and delete) nodes/content.

It will cover how drupal checks access, what modules can do to expand on that, and what you can do to insure that access is being checked.

There will be some code, but mostly as background images.

Slides (Work In progress):
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARCZ5QIal5NIZGhoemJmcTJfNDljc2c...

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Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. If you know how to extend it, well, you're golden. But how do all of Views' moving parts fit together?

This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins, handlers, and supporting new tables. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. There will be much reading of code.

Doug Vann and Hans Riemenschneider take us through the process of converting the Northwestern University Women's Board from a static HTML site to a rich DRUPAL site. The process; the modules used; the decisions as they took http://www.nudevelopment.com/womensboard/ and made http://nuwomensboard.org/

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Doug Vann takes us through some not so familiar territory as he adds content in Drupal 7 and creates nested menus, all the while pointing out how Drupal 7 changes the terminology and methodology being used.

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Our clients want Drupal 7 Media right now? But they don't want to wait until Drupal 7? And they don't want to pay for the development necessary to make it happen? Don't worry (too much); there are alternatives.

Aaron Winborn discusses future-proof approaches to creating and using media in Drupal 6, giving a glimpse of what's just around the corner, and harnessing some of the power that's already available, even if it is currently a state of mashing together pieces that weren't necessarily made to work nicely with each other.

Don't theme yourself into a corner. We built Fusion after years of feedback from designers, site builders, clients, and developers. It's a powerful and supported base theme, with layout and style configuration options built in that you (or your clients) can control through Drupal's UI using the Skinr module. Based on a simplified 960px or fluid 12 or 16-column grid, you can easily define your own custom grid if needed.