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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
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
Drupal, Solr, and When Governments Collaborate to Reduce Landfill Waste notoriousjlb, capellic Learn how 5 San Francisco Bay area government agencies came together to launch a Drupal 7 and Solr Search powered search tool for residents and businesses to learn how to correctly dispose of things... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Build your own Kickstarter with Amazon FPS pwall With the rise of crowdfunding sites and online marketplaces, the very concept of eccomerce is evolving. This has opened doors for startups and entrepreneurs, while creating endless opportunities to... Intermediate Coding + Development
Attack of the Clones: Build your favorite site in 48 Hours with Drupal keithricker Disclaimer: The idea for this presentation is strongly inspired by the following: a presentation made in 2008 by Lullabot, entitled "Build it with Drupal." video link: http://drupalize.me/videos/... Intermediate Coding + Development
Enterprise-level Drupal Baseline: Lesson learned in creating an organization-specific light-weight Drupal distribution rocket777 Open source technologies and Drupal does save an organization money in licensing fees. However, how do you truly save hundreds of thousands of dollars in website development costs at the enterprise-... Intermediate Site Building
Next generation Drupal Performance with a rear window towards drupal commerce perusio, kotnik If you think a web stack using Apache, Varnish and Memcache are the summit of Drupal performance then this session isn't for you. We're cheap. Dirt cheap. We want a web stack that is modern and... Intermediate Coding + Development
Efficiency in Design: How to do Shit Tons of Comps without Killing yourself nicelobster In my experience in working with Drupal Developers in the last ten years, I hear one thing over and over again: "Do you have a comp for that?" While part of me wants to go crazy and say "No, I don... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Behavior Driven Development with Behat and Mink nielsonm, eliza411 Behat testing is a new method of testing for functionality. Unlike normal test driven development, it takes nontechnical statements such as “Given I am on the homepage, When click on ‘About us’, Then... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Reverse caching proxies: Varnish or Nginx? ThijsFeryn In a world full of scalability challenges, a reverse caching proxy has become an essential tool to protect your backend servers. This talk is dedicated to that and compares Varnish to Nginx as the 2... Intermediate DevOps
Lets make this with BEAN aburrows Wanting to have a flexible site, with more control over your content and look and feel? This session will show what BEAN (Block Entities Aren't Nodes) is. It will show a newly launched website, that... Intermediate Site Building
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
The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second (How to sleep without the server-crash-fear) Schnitzel Hosting small to medium-sized Drupal sites isn't typically a big challenge. But what about large sites where up-time is business-critical for a customer? How should we as Drupal sys admins best... Intermediate DevOps
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
No RFPs! How we can eliminate requests for proposals and focus on building client-vendor relationships instead Todd Nienkerk If finding the perfect client or vendor is a bit like dating, then the RFP system is like online dating — the worst kind, too. We search for "Drupal," get a long list of fuzzy pictures, dry... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Project managing Drupal ChrisChinchilla Does the open source and modular nature of Drupal make it easier, harder or just the same to Project Manage? We look at several case studies, pitfalls, tips and tricks. Intermediate Business + Strategy
Zen & The Art of Drupal Maintenance rcross Its not the sexiest part of the web, but maintenance is important for all sites. Do you know which ways to build your Drupal site to minimise effort for the long term? Are you making it harder than... Intermediate Site Building
Create a Unified Search across Drupal 6, 7 and Beyond pwolanin Since its roots in the first Drupal 5 branch, the Apache Solr Search Integration module has had baked deep into its architecture the principle that it needs to support running searches and... Intermediate Site Building
X All the Things: Enterprise Content Management arithmetric, timcosgrove What do you do when your client wants to revision everything? Not just nodes...ALL THE THINGS; all those nooks and crannies that are normally hard to get at with Drupal. What about translating all... Intermediate Site Building
Know where the fire is (Monitoring Drupal Sites) mjh2901 Drupal shops often grow organically with staff members providing their own support. Monitoring the status of a site or equipment is often not in the equation. How can we provide monitoring and... Intermediate DevOps

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