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 |