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 |
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 |
Drupal's Role in the Open Government Movement |
djeannot |
Government sectors are being pressured to become more transparent and communicate government activity to the public. With the leading open source technologies from Drupal and Alfresco, more... |
Advanced |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
TDD and OO in SPS: A case study in fighting Drupal |
jec006, e2thex |
We will explore the benefits of Test Driven Development we saw in writing the SPS module and how an Object Oriented approach helped make this process work. We will discuss some of the challenges of... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
How (and Why) to Start a Drupal Business Consortium |
metaltoad |
Drupal User Groups are great - they provide an intro to Drupal for people new to the technology and allow developers to learn how their peers are leveraging tools, but what about Drupal business... |
Advanced |
Community |
Frontiers of CSS: Its Past, Present, and Future in Drupal |
prestonso |
Over the last several years, advancements in CSS have proceeded at a breakneck pace. This session will examine the current state of CSS, where it is headed, and its future in Drupal, with a focus on... |
Advanced |
Frontend |
Advanced Article Assembly: Adventures in atomic asset administration |
tobby |
Content assets may include article text, photos, videos, graph data, sports scores, or even references to other articles. When dealing with enterprise clients, especially (but not limited to) those... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
Code Without Thinking: Toward a Design Pattern Standard for Drupal |
CrookedNumber |
Drupal already has a solid coding standard. It helps us create code that is predictable and clean, while putting to bed lots of trivial, time-wasting holy wars (e.g., spaces vs tabs). But the coding... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Advanced topics in Solr (including Solr Cloud!) |
dstuart |
In this session we will be looking at some of the more advanced and new features of Apache Solr 4 that will allow you to tweak and extend your search to provide greater relevancy. This will include... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
The Fight Against Divitis |
dcmouyard |
Are you a semantic HTML purist that cringes when you view the source of a Drupal site? Are you a hard-core performance ninja that wants to optimize the DOM? Do you love the power and flexibility of... |
Advanced |
Frontend |
Speeding up Simpletest |
chx |
DDL is slow. Let's write something that avoids it. Once SQL strings are largely out of the way can we / do we want to have functional testing with mockup database/entity/config drivers?
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Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Configuring the Cloud: Selling highly configurable Drupal Commerce products on SavvisDirect.com |
shanly, Everett Zufelt, arvinsingla |
Drupal Commerce is a powerful platform for building e-commerce solutions. Learn how we extended Drupal Commerce to help SavvisDirect deliver highly configurable Cloud services directly to consumers... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
Blocks & Layouts Initiative Update |
EclipseGc |
Blocks... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Eight Quality Checkpoints for Drupal Shops |
grendzy, raspberryman |
The Drupal development sector, as a whole, needs a boost to it's quality standards. Many shops have adopted smart practices with source control and multistage environments, yet clients continue to... |
Advanced |
Business + Strategy |
INTEGRATING NODE.JS FOR REAL TIME AWESOME-SAUCE |
mirzu |
Real-time interaction is becoming more and more important on a site to create a faster, smoother, more integrated experience. To that end, Node.js was created to provide an incredibly fast non-... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
DIY Continuous Integration |
generalredneck, craychee |
You know what Continuous Integration is. You have heard it mentioned at every camp and at every meetup. It’s part automated testing, part automated deployment, part Test-driven development, part... |
Advanced |
DevOps |
Authentication in Drupal: OpenID, WebID, webfinger and Mozilla Persona |
scor |
OpenID has been part of core for many but it hasn't seen the kind of adoption it was expected to have. Meanwhile, several alternatives have been developed. After a brief comparison of the existing... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |
Drupal and MongoDB: (more than) the beginning of a beautiful friendship |
chx |
MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. It fits a lot of typical web site needs. Well, we know a software that can be used to build spectacular websites, don't we? So it... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
A Practical Guide to Managed Cloud Deployments |
abovecloud |
a practical hands-on session for determining which cloud solution is best for you, public, private and or a blended cloud environment, planning, capabilities, beginning your journey, strategies,... |
Advanced |
Business + Strategy |
The end of Hooks |
Crell |
Drupal 8 will ship with not one but two event systems. One is the Symfony Event Dispatcher. The other is hooks. But really, do we need two event systems? No, we don't.
Hooks have served us well... |
Advanced |
Core Conversations |