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“Liberate Your Information” - Revolutionizing the Library Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) with Drupal krlucas Libraries--academic, corporate and public alike--are at a crossroads. As early adopters of technology, they now find themselves saddled with monolithic legacy systems that don’t provide the UX,... Intermediate Site Building
“By the numbers: How the Big Boys run their companies.” Peter OSullivan As companies grow, they get more complex. Executives must learn how to manage “by the numbers” and delegate to others in the company. Participants leave with some powerful, actionable building blocks... Beginner Business + Strategy
Zen and the Art of Estimating Owen Barton Estimating can take many forms, from estimating tasks to entire Drupal projects, working with anything from a one line story to thousand pages of specs. Most people find it hard, and many people find... Beginner Business + Strategy
Zen & The Art of Drupal Maintenance rcross Its not the sexiest part of the web, but maintenance is important for all sites. Do you know which ways to build your Drupal site to minimise effort for the long term? Are you making it harder than... Intermediate Site Building
You’re Selling Solutions — But What Are the Problems? thursdaybram As a Drupal developer, you solve problems for your clients. But do you actually know what problems you’re solving? When someone brings you a project, they’ve come to the conclusion that the solution... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Your workflow needs work: Site building as a separate discipline. zeropx Site building as a separate discipline starts with good planning. But what’s a good plan? This session will cover a start to finish concept benefitting most site-builders and teams to finish their... Beginner Site Building
Your DevOps Checklist emandel Developing, testing, and deploying and maintaining successful sites requires a lot of moving pieces to all smoothly work together. I will present a checklist to ensure your deployments work as... Intermediate DevOps
Your CMS is not your website: Site building for high-scale, fragmented sites with Drupal tobby A modern, high-scale Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. Sometimes, a load-balanced... Intermediate Site Building
You Can Do That In A Browser? Advanced Drupal Development Without Root Access MKorostoff Rebuild nearly 100 complex high traffic websites without doc root access – no access to template files, no additional contributed modules and no writing any custom module code. Wait, what?... Intermediate Frontend
Yes, you will. thejmather There are many things that we avoid learning because we don't think we're going to use them. Well, I'm here to tell you: yes, you will. You will use version control, even if it's saving as file.old.... Beginner Coding + Development
X All the Things: Enterprise Content Management arithmetric, timcosgrove What do you do when your client wants to revision everything? Not just nodes...ALL THE THINGS; all those nooks and crannies that are normally hard to get at with Drupal. What about translating all... Intermediate Site Building
Writing Documentation for Fun and Profit! noirin When all else fails, write the manual! Too many open source projects operate on the assumption that, since your users have access to the source code, they can figure out what your software does... Beginner Community
Workbench Case Study: A policy of truth thebruce Workbench is a suite of workflow tools with moderation and access designed by very bright people for smart workflows. However, in the trenches we all know things can be tricky and given a host of... Intermediate Coding + Development
Winning with flexible designs. Modern theme workflow patterns for Drupal websites. rcaracaus Let's face it, Photoshop files are painful. They don't respond to devices, UI states, or selective design processes. They define the facade of an application without taking the inner workings of it... Intermediate Frontend
Windows Azure and Drupal Integration fusionx1, acouch Windows Azure is a cloud platform developed by microsoft to run opensource projects including Drupal. It has three business models, Web Hosting, Platform as a Service(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a... Intermediate DevOps
Why Infrastructure Still Matters: Scaling and User Experience edsai Common misconceptions about system scalability in large scale web architectures. We'll touch on the details of what really matters in web scaling and how user experience is affected by things like... Beginner Day Stage
Why Drupal Developers are Different ldpm Drupal attracts many developers who want to help create solutions, not just outcomes. If you are just giving your developers tasks to work on and leaving them alone until they're done, you're not... Beginner Business + Strategy
Why does no-one update their Drupal site? steveburge More than three-quarters of Drupal sites are out-of-date according to Drupal's own official statistics: http://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal At the time of writing, 590,114 sites use Drupal 7... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Who's your User? Building Administrative Interfaces to Achieve Better User Experiences bshort Where is my content? How do I find it? How do I edit it? How many users do I have? These are just some of the questions that Administrators and Editors have even after a site launch. Drupal is an... Beginner Coding + Development
Who's on First? Building Knowledge Management Systems in Drupal rgs Learn how Drupal can be used to create sophisticated e-learning platforms across different industries and segments. Take a tour of knowledge management functionality built for industry leaders... Beginner Site Building

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