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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
Cache Backend Shootout Eronarn Drupal 7 supports Memcached, Redis, Varnish, MongoDB, APC, Filecache, and Boost as cache backends - not to mention good old fashioned databases! It even supports putting individual cache tables into... Advanced Coding + Development
Drupal 8 Accessibility - Are We There Yet? mgifford I'll be doing a quick demo of Drupal 8 to highlight some of the exciting things that have become part of Core and how accessibility is a part of that. Core contributors have done so much to see... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
SPEED. I am SPEED. rich.yumul Rather than a talk about making your Drupal site fast, this is a talk about making YOU FAST. I'll go over some tips... Beginner Coding + Development
Drupal for Facebook, The Next Generation Dave Cohen This presentation covers Facebook.com applications, and various ways your website can integrate with Facebook. Emphasis is on Drupal for Facebook, one of several Drupal modules that make such... Intermediate Site Building
A Content First Approach to Responsive Design meganem, hyperboy In the world of web design, we talk a lot about user experience, content strategy, responsive design, and mobile first. Yet in practice, these are not separate disciplines. We find ourselves needing... Beginner User Experience (UX)
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
Native Apps for Drupal Commerce Platform sumitk Mobile commerce is on the rise and will not slow down anytime soon. Mobile commerce is going to be $100 Billion market by 2015. In order to prepare for this market shift, Drupal Commerce platform is... Beginner Coding + Development
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
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
Drupal as a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) sumitk Drupal can act as a great Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), providing a fast and easy way to build connected mobile apps. You can build your custom cloud platform using a variety of available... Beginner Coding + Development
Composer: Using external libraries in your modules kim.pepper Drupal 8 has a whole new philosophy of "proudly developed elsewhere" with the addition of Symfony2 components and numerous other PHP libraries via Composer. Composer is a external PHP library... Advanced Coding + Development
Javascript in Drupal rballou There are several roads to the same result in Drupal and applying JavaScript is no different. This session takes a look at how to manage your site's JS but also some practices to make things a bit... Beginner Coding + Development
Building an API (that people will actually use) theneonlobster, grasmash Learn why and how to expose your Drupal installation’s data and functionality via an API, and entice developers to extend your application’s reach through supportive documentation, implementation... Intermediate Coding + Development
Recommending content: Strategies, Tools and Big Data Collection dstuart In this talk we will cover some of the tools, algorithms, data collection techniques and considerations with dealing with content recommendations in Drupal. It will look at: Semantic Analysis... Advanced Coding + Development
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
Data, data everywhere: content consumption strategies using Nutch and Solr data import handler dstuart Nutch is an open web crawler that lets you do fine grained or Internet wide web crawling. In this session I will introduce you to the Drupal Nutch module, which will help with the setup and control... Intermediate Site Building
Making Membership Management Manageable no longer here 1018034, bnthms88 Membership management is often a daunting activity for nonprofits, involving manual processes and multiple systems where data is kept and must be updated. Poor member management can greatly impact... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Location Based Apps - No Coding Required mdorman Just because you built your site before the mobile explosion does not mean you need to start from scratch, or you can't catch up to your competitors. Within a few extra days you can turn your current... Intermediate Site Building
Register, pay and attend: making advanced event management easy with Drupal tauno There is no one right way to manage events, but some ways are easier than others. Nearly every site that needs to implement an event registration/management solution requires a slightly (or... Advanced Site Building

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