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throw new \Drupal\Core\Initiative\ FileManagement\FailureException(); Dave Reid Click here to watch throw new \Drupal\Core\Initiative\ FileManagement\FailureException();. Problem: The unofficial File Management Initiative did not meet a lot of its own goals for Drupal 8... Advanced Core Conversations
Too big to scale? Why enterprise websites fail to scale (& how some companies are breaking free from their own servers) joshk For a large company with a mission-critical site, launch day is a day of reckoning. The bigger the website, the greater the risks. Is your architecture scalable enough to support hundreds of millions... Beginner Day Stage
Tooling for Drupal core initiatives Gábor Hojtsy Click here to watch Tooling for Drupal core initiatives. Different Drupal 8 core initiatives used different tools to achieve their goals, some of the most common tools included: IRC meetings... Advanced Core Conversations
Unconsortium: the Next Phase of Drupal Collaboration in Higher Education zchandler, bwood, Shawn DeArmond Click here to watch Unconsortium: the Next Phase of Drupal Collaboration in Higher Education. There is a growing Drupal movement in Higher Education: Drupal has moved from experimental... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Upgrading your modules to Drupal 8 effulgentsia Click here to watch Upgrading your modules to Drupal 8. This session will demonstrate how to take the code from a Drupal 7 module and convert it to Drupal 8. You'll learn about many of the new... Intermediate Coding + Development
User experience for online education technicka Click here to watch User experience for online education. I work for UniversityNow, a San Francisco startup in the online higher education space. We deliver online education to working adults... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Using Backbone.js with Drupal 7 and 8 dealancer Click here to watch Using Backbone.js with Drupal 7 and 8. Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework which is freely based on MVC pattern and allows developers to create single page AJAX... Beginner Frontend
Using Drupal to build a global catalog for open source software Sheldon Rampton, ahoppin, acouch, pmackay Click here to watch Using Drupal to build a global catalog for open source software. Drupal was the platform of choice when Code for America built its "CfA Marketplace," a “marketplace for open... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Using the Drupal 8 configuration system heyrocker Click here to watch Using the Drupal 8 configuration system. Drupal 8 has a new configuration management system, but what does that even mean? This session will outline how to work with the new... Intermediate Site Building
Using Twig: The new template engine in Drupal 8 jenlampton, Fabianx, JohnAlbin Click here to watch Using Twig: The new template engine in Drupal 8. Drupal 8 will have a fancy new template engine (Twig) and a simplified theme layer. We'll show you the new syntax (don't... Beginner Frontend
UX Case: Love and Hate in The Issue Queue Garden User Advocate, tsvenson Click here to watch UX Case: Love and Hate in The Issue Queue Garden. Update: Based on the insightful comments and questions we’ve received on this proposal, we have decided to switch tracks... Beginner Community
UX Spaces: A new approach to site building and front-end design for Drupal xtfer Click here to watch UX Spaces: A new approach to site building and front-end design for Drupal. Drupal gives us a range of powerful tools for structuring and presenting content, but relying on... Intermediate Site Building
UX Under Fire - On Communicating the Value of UX solipsist Click here to watch UX Under Fire - On Communicating the Value of UX. As a UX professional you've probably found yourself forced to argue for the importance of UX in a project. You've probably... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Velocity & Viscosity: Train-wrecks and Ugly-Baby Meetings Susan Rust Click here to watch Velocity... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Was It Something I Said? The Art of Giving (and getting) A Critique emmajane Click here to watch Was It Something I Said? The Art of Giving (and getting) A Critique. There is a lot happening in the Drupal community. It's easy to get overwhelmed. As a community we've seen... Beginner Community
We're getting OOP wrong and there's still time to fix it msonnabaum Click here to watch We're getting OOP wrong and there's still time to fix it. In Drupal 8, we've tried to break up our procedural codebase into classes, use statics as as a last resort, and... Advanced Core Conversations
Weathering Storms: How Robin Hood Uses Drupal to Fight Poverty Steven Merrill, LSU_JBob, sephie, mbyrnes, bmcmurray Click here to watch Weathering Storms: How Robin Hood Uses Drupal to Fight Poverty. Your typical day’s traffic barely tips the scales … until Lady Gaga tweets your project and the Black Eyed... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
What is Enterprise Drupal? rgs What are the unique qualities of Enterprise Drupal projects and why is it so important to distinguish them from other projects. Beginner Day Stage
What Users Want (or Why Webpages are Dead) namho, setvik Click here to watch What Users Want (or Why Webpages are Dead). Mobile devices sales have overtaken PC sales. Social media is where people now connect. Lives are stored in the cloud. As... Beginner User Experience (UX)
What's New in Drush 6 moshe weitzman, msonnabaum, jhedstrom, Owen Barton Click here to watch What's New in Drush 6. The Drush maintainers discuss new features for Drush 6, and new developments in the Drush ecosystem Intermediate DevOps

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