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When to Upgrade: Big Drupal 7 Upgrade’s Top 5 takeaways from both a Client and Developer Perspective caseyc, ricochetconsulting, bigdave In this talk, we take a look at the reasons we decided to upgrade to D7. We share our the top 5 takeaways gained during our Big upgrade from both our client’s perspective and our own. Our long time... Intermediate Site Building
When Data is Everywhere, Where Do You Start? Using Drupal to Manage, Distribute, and Visualize Data kvoelker Data visualizations, open data, aggregation, infographics, data stories... It seems we're all supposed to be doing amazing things with our data these days. But getting there still seems hard. In... Intermediate Business + Strategy
What successful Drupal businesses have in common emandel As a hosting company working with many different Drupal companies, we are in the fortunate position to observe many successful solutions. I will focus on a number of the common traits and patterns... Beginner Business + Strategy
What is Enterpirse Drupal and How Do You Get Some? rgs, nstango So you think you're ready to develop for the Fortune 500? Drupal's adoption in the Enterprise sector has been staggering and demand for Drupal in the Enterprise has been an important catalyst in... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Web Form UX: The overlooked aspect of web development jmoughon What is the big deal? Forms are meant to be filled out right? If you do not develop a good form experience, users can get frustrated or spend unnecessary time filling out forms. Lets take the pain... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Web Apps with Drupal wwhurley, setvik Recent proliferation of smartphones and tablet devices is due at least in part to the advent of apps, which customize and streamline user experience in a variety of usage scenarios. Today, hundreds... Intermediate Coding + Development
Web Accessibility: What’s it all about? lebson Web accessibility means providing resources to the public that can be navigated by all users regardless of any limitations. This presentation describes the importance of accessibility for web and... Beginner User Experience (UX)
WCMaaS - Platforming Drupal Inside the Federal Government mtndan, tmccabe, rocket777 Successfully standardizing on Drupal, at the enterprise level, requires much more than simply getting the technology inside the organization, especially when that organization is a highly regulated,... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
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
Vote Yourself off the Island: Become a Better Drupal Developer by Looking Beyond Drupal CrookedNumber The allure of Drupal is obvious. It's a robust turn-key CMS with over 20,000 extensions. Writing Drupal code is rewarding, interesting, and just plain fun. But the versatility, comfort and... Beginner Coding + Development
Vim for Drupal CrashTest_ This session is for finding out how the old-school editor, Vim, is just dandy for Drupal. We will cover some cool plugins, and awesome resources, as well as answering questions about how to use... Intermediate Coding + Development
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
Views Demystified rainbreaw Views are one of the most valuable tools for building a fantastic Drupal site, so much so that the module has become part of core in Drupal 8. As a newer Drupal developer, however, you might be... Beginner Site Building
Varnish In Action ThijsFeryn Having trouble scaling your website? Is that new marketing campaign killing your performance? Are you using a frameork or a CMS that causes too much overhead? Give Varnish a try ! Varnish is a... Intermediate DevOps
Value Based Sales Techniques and Drupal jlambert At Workhabit, we've been selling Drupal for more than seven years, to some of the largest organizations in the world. We're going to cover the inside tips that Drupal organizations really need to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Validate cheap and quick: lean prototyping and user testing GarenCheckley, technicka So you’re improving or building a website or product, but how do you know you’re doing it right? In this talk, we’ll outline simple, quick and cheap ways to prototype and test. This process is... Beginner User Experience (UX)
UX Travel Guide for Developers User Advocate, tsvenson This is an invitation to developers to relax and enjoy a short vacation in UX Land and get familiar with a foreign culture. Why would you want to do this? Well to help make Drupal rock at UX as much... Beginner User Experience (UX)
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
UX Prototyping in Axure RP for Drupal danigrrl When working on relatively simple sites, there's a lot you can do directly in Drupal to show clients how content and functionality will work together. But as functionality gets more complex and more... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Using LoadStorm And Other Tools To Stress Out Your Drupal Website akucharski We all know that Varnish is the default answer for performance, but what happens when you have to flush cache? LoadStorm provides a quick, cheap, and easy way to slam your Drupal site with thousands... Intermediate Coding + Development

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