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Keeping up with the times: Drupal upgrade & migration - which one is right for my site? Aimee Degnan, Kristen Pol If you stick with Drupal for your website framework (which you should!), you will eventually need to upgrade or migrate your site to a newer version of Drupal. Upgrade or migrate? Which one can be,... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Many Layouts of Drupal: Panels, Display Suite, Context, and Friends Kristen Pol In Drupal, we often have the blessing and curse of flexibility, allowing us to get the same “result” in a myriad of ways. This is no exception for laying out our pages! This session will give an... Beginner Site Building
Our Kegerator Dashboard: Arduino, Kegbot, and Drupal eric@squishymedia.com Squishymedia built a KegBot (kegbot.org) to monitor temperature and flow data in our multi‐tap office kegerator. The data flows from sensor electronics installed in the kegerator through an Ardunio... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Bite-sized contribution ezra-g This session encourages everyone to become involved -- or to get more actively involved -- in participating in the Drupal Community by discussing common objections that people who are new to Drupal... Beginner Community
Introduction to Module Development ezra-g This thoroughly-honed session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on... Beginner Coding + Development
Drupal and MongoDB: (more than) the beginning of a beautiful friendship chx MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. It fits a lot of typical web site needs. Well, we know a software that can be used to build spectacular websites, don't we? So it... Advanced Coding + Development
Drupal + PhoneGap - The Mobile App jwsj11 Mobile is growing fast: 25x over the next five years. In a year or two (if not now), not being present on mobile in a focused manner will be the equivalent of not being present on the web today. With... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Science of Guessing - Drupal estimation techniques from project managers svettes, chrisstrahl, solipsist What usually happens before you get started planning, designing, writing and coding is estimation. Your customer wants to know what the party will cost them. It’s a tricky question to answer. This... Beginner Business + Strategy
Implementing Scrum on a long-term Drupal project slashrsm I'll describe how we implemented Scrum methodology on a project of migration relatively big media site to Drupal. I'll explain how we prepared for implementation, which approach we've chosen, what... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
Emacs & Drupal slashrsm Emacs is not just a text editor, it is much more. It is a platform that can be used to do many different things as manipulate remote servers, chat on IRC or Jabber, play chess, send and receive... Beginner Coding + Development
Mastering Drupal cache slashrsm Drupal has a built in Cache API, which allows module developers to save output of the expensive parts of code to be re-used in future. This not only makes code faster and more responsive, but will... Intermediate Coding + Development
Beginning Drupal Development: Best Practices mksweet New to developing Drupal sites or looking to level up? In this session I will cover many of the common questions and hurdles of evolving from an end-user into a Drupal developer. Check in with your... Intermediate Site Building
Content Strategy for Drupal Jessica Hui What's the big deal about content strategy? Well, we want content for humans! Today, we see 2010's news items languishing on well designed, solidly built websites. Projects delayed weeks because... Beginner Business + Strategy
Using Drupal at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory lalweil The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Lab located in Eastern Washington. Our research strengthens the U.S. foundation for innovation, and we... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Content Personalization in Drupal jasonyarrington How does Netflix make suggestions about what I might like? How do ecommerce sites build blocks that say, people who viewed this also viewed this? How come the featured articles on my favorite news... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Why Drupal Developers are Different ldpm Drupal attracts many developers who want to help create solutions, not just outcomes. If you are just giving your developers tasks to work on and leaving them alone until they're done, you're not... Beginner Business + Strategy
Building Drupal Support Capability in I.T. bwinett In this session I'll discuss our experience at Tektronix and Fluke building our ability to develop, host, and support Drupal sites. We brought Drupal in-house in 2010. We had significant web... Beginner Business + Strategy
Patch Review ZenDoodles, YesCT In this session, we'll look at the process of patch review from start to finish, discussing strategies to maximize learning opportunities, touching on why some patches are harder to review than... Intermediate Community
Bootstrapping Solr search clusters and maintaining them pwolanin, Nick_vh At Acquia we have the Acquia Search service. This service allows people to connect with Apache Solr (A search application) and also provides high availability and high scalability. This session... Intermediate DevOps

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