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Leading with Quality ideaseed, fen This session will discuss the importance of, and strategies for, setting the context of Quality from the start of a project, baking it into the development processes, and managing client... Advanced Business + Strategy
Walking in a straight line: Code quality tools and processes kim.pepper As everyone who works with Drupal knows, there is more than one way to write a module. Different developers do things in different ways. When you are working with a team of developers, these... Advanced Coding + Development
Single Page Web Apps and Drupal FilmKnurd, smithbh Have you ever thought about using Drupal as an application framework for single page web apps? Would you like to leverage hot new client side frameworks like Backbone and Ember? Backbone is included... Advanced Frontend
Fearless Development with Drush, Vagrant and Aegir ergonlogic You've most likely heard of Vagrant by now. It's the command-line tool that allows you to "create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments." So why is... Advanced DevOps
Can Symfony components replace Drupal's venerable Form API? David Strauss There are many gaps in the current Form API: Its design dates back to a pre-OO era of PHP. We use Drupalisms like hash prefixes to distinguish different types of array keys. Widgets are not very... Advanced Core Conversations
UX Roadmap to the Issue Queue Revolution User Advocate, tsvenson As a follow up to the proposed session “UX Case: Love and Hate in The Issue Queue Garden” we are proposing a Core Conversation that would lay out a possible roadmap that could revolutionize the... Advanced Core Conversations
Register, pay and attend: making advanced event management easy with Drupal tauno There is no one right way to manage events, but some ways are easier than others. Nearly every site that needs to implement an event registration/management solution requires a slightly (or... Advanced Site Building
Responsive Web Design with Sass+Compass Snugug Mobile matters. There are more than 4x the number mobile devices activated each day than there are babies born and the question of how to effectively deliver your content to everyone, regardless of... Advanced Frontend
Social Drupal – To Infinity and Beyond Susan Cato Your website may already be a star, but the online universe is all about shining light beyond your site to include other channels—including social networks, email newsletters, and mobile applications... Advanced Business + Strategy
Managing Multi-lingual Content for Multi-Plaform Native Mobile Apps using Drupal jwsj11, djeannot In this session, we demonstrate how Drupal is used as an easy to use, custom frontend to manage multi lingual content published and packaged in native mobile apps (including iOS and Android)--based... Advanced Site Building
Views for Developers; An Architectural Overview Bevan Views is an immensely powerful and extensible system. It can be used to solve a wide range of problems and present many different types of displays; More than what most people realise, even after... Advanced Coding + Development
Exploring Drupal 8 Performance Eronarn By DrupalCon Portland, Drupal 8 will be well into feature freeze and just a month away from code freeze. The new version will be an exciting milestone in Drupal's history, but for now, it's a major... Advanced Coding + Development
OH NODE(.js)! tizzo, beejeebus Node.js is the new hotness and it has lots of geeks very excited. It can, of course, be integrated with Drupal for some huge wins. This session will provide an introduction not only to using node.js... Advanced Coding + Development
Advanced Responsive Web Design in Drupal Snugug, iamcarrico As more and more of internet browsing is occurring across non-desktop devices, responsive web design is becoming more the standard and a requirement for new websites. At the same time, the tools at... Advanced Frontend
The Library of the Future - Solr Search and Responsive Design for Multnomah County Library MobileHippie The Multnomah County Library is the second largest public library in the U.S. by circulation. We are second only to the New York Public Library system. We move more books, music, movies (and more)... Advanced Site Building
Mapping APIs caseysoftware On one hand, APIs are fantastic tools that allow us to leverage massive functionality and features with little effort. On the other hand, to make use of these APIs, we have to learn and speak about... Advanced Coding + Development
Canopy Case Study: Sisters of Mercy jmacinne The Sisters of Mercy (Mercy) are one of the largest health care providers in the US. They wanted to leverage their existing and future Drupal infrastructure and combine it with a document repository... Advanced Coding + Development
The Evolution of Front-end Components and Templates JohnAlbin PHP, of course, was designed as a templating language. And over its lifetime, Drupal has iterated over several templating systems striving to improve its capabilities and ease-of-use. However, our... Advanced Core Conversations
Recommending content: Strategies, Tools and Big Data Collection dstuart In this talk we will cover some of the tools, algorithms, data collection techniques and considerations with dealing with content recommendations in Drupal. It will look at: Semantic Analysis... Advanced Coding + Development
Advanced Frontend Performance rupl As HTML5 apps become the norm and mobile context dominates over desktop, the importance of frontend performance is exploding. We want websites to do cool new things, but more importantly they must... Advanced Frontend

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