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Jenkins DevOps in an Afternoon rgristroph You will learn how to install Jenkins, use it to automatically backup Drupal sites, promote changes from development to staging to production, roll back failed changes, and perform some simple... Intermediate DevOps
Debugging Techniques for Drupal and Other Complex Systems rgristroph A general approach to debugging Drupal problems will be presented, followed by an overview of a variety of tools such as the Devel suite, krumo, xdebug, client side debugging such as Firebug and... Beginner Coding + Development
The King’s Scribe - Why Content Strategists are Your Most Important Team Member Chris Gaffney Content is the most vital aspect of any website - the living material providing meaning and value to the user. Content is a website’s expression - encompassing the message, theme and story that you’... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Accessibility Testing dcmouyard You probably already know how important accessibile websites are, but do you know how and when to test for accessibility? In this session you'll learn: How to gather enough data to prioritize... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Building Android Applications that Use Web Services APIs skyredwang Drupal offers a large and extensible set of back-end services (via Services Module in D6... Advanced Coding + Development
REST Best Practices caseysoftware Stateless.. Nouns... Intermediate Coding + Development
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
Mr Plums Paradise: opening the walled garden of linked data xtfer Mr Plum's Paradise is a childrens book about linked data, published in 1976. It tells the story of Mr Plum, a budding gardner, who convinces his neighbours to knock down the walls between their... Intermediate Coding + Development
Mobile Application Strategies for Drupal Sites jefflinwood I've helped lots of corporations, non-profits, and startups with their mobile application strategies over the last two years. I'm going to distill feedback from successful mobile projects and my... Beginner Business + Strategy
Must Have 10+ Years People Experience ashedryden Solving a technical problem is relatively easy: there tends to be precedence, easily accessible data, black and white results, and a knowledgeable community to lean on when you get really stuck.... Beginner Community
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
Raising the Bar in Drupal: WSCCI, Scotch & Symfony2 forestmars Raising the Bar This session is a deep dive into the data structures and paradigms introduced in Drupal 8 / Symfony2, looking at key initiatives to uncover the fundamental changes in Drupal... Advanced Coding + Development
How Drupal will Help Millions of New Yorkers Get There on Time rgs The NYC MTA recently announced the availability of Real Time Data Feeds for developers at http://datamine.mta.info. Learn how this custom API portal was built on Drupal 7 to support millions of daily... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Address accessibility early to avoid costly delays cbiggins Building a site in Drupal and then addressing any accessibility concerns can be a costly mistake. Especially if there is a lot of rich media and different controls available to the end user.... Beginner Frontend
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)
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
Design: What is it good for (and other great tracks by Edwin Starr) keyhitman What it is Developers think design means graphic design and pretty colors. Graphic designers think it means how a website should behave. But design, is governed by function. Hence, the old adage -... Beginner Frontend
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
Drupal is Free... So What? pwolanin So you've taken the plunge into Drupal and you know that it's open source. But what does that mean in practice? Free and Open Source Software means more than just no licensing costs. In fact, it... Intermediate Community
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

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