“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 |