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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
“Liberate Your Information” - Revolutionizing the Library Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) with Drupal krlucas Libraries--academic, corporate and public alike--are at a crossroads. As early adopters of technology, they now find themselves saddled with monolithic legacy systems that don’t provide the UX,... Intermediate Site Building
Developing Plugins for Open Atrium 2.0 mpotter The new Drupal 7 version of Open Atrium is being released and contains many new improvements for building collaboration and Intranet sites. Open Atrium 2 is based upon an extensible plugin... Intermediate Coding + Development
Omega 4.x: From Download to Layout in 60 minutes srjosh You’ve heard the hype: “Responsive web sites are the future” and “If your site isn’t mobile-friendly, it might as well not exist”. You’ve also heard about this really popular base theme called “... Intermediate Frontend
Introduction to Module Development vordude Chances are, "There's a module for that." But what if there isn't? Or, (more likely) what if you just need a small piece of functionality on your Drupal site to act differently? This session is... Beginner Coding + Development
Windows Azure and Drupal Integration fusionx1, acouch Windows Azure is a cloud platform developed by microsoft to run opensource projects including Drupal. It has three business models, Web Hosting, Platform as a Service(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a... Intermediate DevOps
Node Access for Common Folks With Uncommon Problems vordude Here be Dragons. Access control and content privacy can be a sensitive topic. Drupal's Node Access system is an often misunderstood friend to module developers to make sure that your site's... Intermediate Coding + Development
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
Battlefront Drupal: securing your site dstol, cashwilliams You had to rush a launch, now what? Maybe there were last minute changes that didn’t get vetted with the care they deserve. Drupal is great, but sometimes misconfiguration can sneak its way into... Beginner Site Building
Plugin into Drupal 8 MiSc In Drupal 8 we are going to have some new things, one of them is plugins, what are they, what do plugins do, what differs them from modules and ctools plugins, and how (not will) are they going to... Intermediate Coding + Development
Standardized development with Vagrant and Puppet. kid_icarus In a time when distributed version control is the norm, a need arises for distributed development environments. This is especially true for growing teams, and growing projects. This session will... Intermediate DevOps
10 Ways to Cost Drupal Projects Mark Matuschka If there are 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, there have to be at just about as many ways to cost a Drupal project. I’m going to discuss ten of them and show how all ten are valid in different... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
Drupal as a Framework: More than just websites tim-e Drupal is a powerful framework and CMS. But it can extend beyond just building websites. Drupal can power almost any web application. Many people do not realise the potential for Drupal as a... Intermediate Coding + Development
DevShop: The Open-Source Drupal Environment Manager Jon Pugh DevShop is a Drupal environment manager, meaning it helps you create and manage multiple environments for each of your Drupal projects. DevShop has a full-featured front-end project and drupal... Intermediate DevOps
Merging Two Tracks: Supporting Drupal 5.x and 7.x in Parallel huartson, dpfitzsi How do you support two very different versions of Drupal in an enterprise environment? This is a problem that the University of Calgary currently faces running Drupal 5.x and 7.x in parallel. The... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Panel: Working as a Drupal Dev: Freelance vs Subcontract vs Employment bmx269, gbernier With all of the sessions on a business' perspective of a Drupal Developer, why not get the Developer's point of view as to what is involved in being a Drupal Developer. This session will be a... Beginner Business + Strategy
Applying UX Processes to get Large Project Quality on a Small Budget DSachs When a small project needs to be completed quickly and cheaply but still provide great results, a lot of the “ideal” UX processes may not be feasible. However, UX cannot be ignored for these smaller... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Move over Google and OpenLayers: there's a new kid on the map! RdeBoer Building further on the popular DrupalCon Sydney talk, this presentation maps it up a notch with new ways to engage mobile visitors on your site ie your business in the post desktop, post Google era... Intermediate Site Building
Easy Theme Development Using Context Layouts (And Fewer Templates) cr0ss Drupal lets you template just about everything: html, page, block, comment, form, field, etc... and you can often have templates that apply only to specific conditions: per region, per page, per url... Beginner Frontend

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