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A Two Way Street: Connecting Drupal and A Flexible Mobile Content Creation App kylebrowning, ksenzee, katbailey This talk will focus on our strategy, process, and results while building a Drupal 7 API based on Services module and a native iOS app that takes advantage of it to effectively provide a UI for... Intermediate Coding + Development
Merry Maintenance tglynn Maintaining is much less spoken about than building new sites. People often think of the initial deployment as the most glorious moment, but it doesn’t have to be. When a site is adequately... Intermediate Coding + Development
How Alex Ross (Bleen) Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Agile adzuki3, bleen18 One Drupal Developer’s Agile Experience - In this presentation we will follow Bleen as he joins a project at NBCUniversal that uses an agile process, his initial reluctance to even be part of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Beyond PHP : it's not (just) about the code ! wimg Most PHP developers focus on writing code. But creating Web applications is about much more than just wrting PHP. Take a step outside the PHP cocoon and into the big PHP ecosphere to find out how... Beginner Coding + Development
The why and the how of moving to 5.4 wimg With PHP 5.4 out and many production environments still running 5.2 (or older), it's time to paint a clear picture on why everyone should move to 5.3 and 5.4 and how to get code ready for the latest... Intermediate Coding + Development
Caching and Tuning fun for high scalability wimg Caching has been a 'hot' topic for a few years. But caching takes more than merely taking data and putting it in a cache : the right caching techniques can improve performance and reduce load... Beginner Coding + Development
Powering a Crowd-Sourced Marketplace with Drupal + Commerce OpenSesame Online marketplaces are popular business models - they’re a big, scalable opportunity, but they also present unique challenges. How do you support different buyers and sellers and all of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal experience : developing a complex ticketing system to manage web projects eme emerya has developed a complete ticketing and project management system in Drupal. Seeing tools like Redmine as outdated, we developed our own system fully in Drupal and our third version will be... Beginner Business + Strategy
Enterprise Development in Drupal Gardens timaholt Ever wanted to develop sites in Drupal Gardens? Ever outgrown the limitations of the ThemeBuilder? Ever wanted to do responsive design in Gardens? This session will give you best practices in... Intermediate Frontend
Provision and Deploy a Drupal Web Farm From the Command Line markjbrown Public cloud platforms make it very easy to provision servers to run Drupal. Tools like Drush make it very easy to manage and deploy Drupal. This session will show you how to write shell scripts to... Intermediate DevOps
How we built a responsive, robust, state-wide news destination in 10 business days mtift, lzimmerman In 2011, the Wisconsin protests attracted international attention. Spikes in traffic took Wisconsin Public Radio's aging website down numerous times -- at one point for more than 48 hours. Shortly... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
How design research will help you solve the problem? dcmistry All of us are trying to solve a problem or a pain point for our users through features, websites, products and apps. We want to build a solution that is not helping our users but also helping us grow... Beginner User Experience (UX)
The (Digital) Place You Love Is Gone: Designing for Permanence jsokohl So many times we design for new users, with only a passing nod at existing ones. But what happens when we redesign a familiar experience, especially one that people have "grown up with"? What happens... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Micro-site development workflows with Drush Make and Git seanberto, valrozansky, populist This session will be co-presented by a representative of Pantheon, Sean Larkin from ThinkShout, and Val Rozansky, IT manager from the nonprofit, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers.... Beginner DevOps
Drupal, Composer and the Symfony Components: A wonderful world for all of us weaverryan Huh? Drupal and Symfony at the same conference? Teamwork and hugs between these two groups are wonderful, but even more important is the shift in the entire PHP community from a mentality of "Not... Intermediate Coding + Development
Association management with RedHen CRM seanberto, levelos While the Drupal contrib module space presents a wide range of options for managing access control and groups of individual site users, contributed tools for building "assocation management systems"... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Need a Drupal website? Wait! Have you gone through a discovery process? seanberto, bheckman Website redesigns can be overwhelming - from selecting a vendor, to budgeting, to managing implementation, to training, to launching and maintaining a new site.... It's easy to dive into the... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Module Smorgasbord: Entities, Bundles, and Fields tedbow With the Field API in Drupal 7 many modules have been popping up to make novel uses of Entities, Fields, and Bundles. This session will review popular and lesser know modules that are doing... Intermediate Site Building
Intro to Using jQuery in Drupal attheshow This is a how-to session where you'll see a quick explanation of what the jQuery javascript library is and how you can use it in Drupal. From theming to module building, there are many ways that you... Beginner Coding + Development
Drupal 8 Module Building Basics vlkff, Fabianx Drupal 8 is coming, and it already has more than 100 contributed modules. If you want to begin building modules for Drupal 8, then this session is for you. If you have a contributed module, and want... Beginner Coding + Development

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