The Importance of the Drupal Cache |
luisr |
This presentation will focus on the importance of the Drupal Cache for Drupal development. Discussion will include an overview of available options to improve Drupal performance, including utilizing... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Beginner's Guide to Solr Search via Search API |
caschbre |
"Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
High fidelity Drupal theming |
dead_arm |
Implementing designs that are ill-suited or counter-intuitive to Drupal's structure and UI patterns can be frustrating for even the most seasoned Drupal themers. We'll discuss front-end areas that... |
Intermediate |
Frontend |
Getting Shit Done! (Drupal, Agile Web Development, & Low Risk Project Management) |
jasonmark |
Project Manager. Producer. Account Manager. Nag.
Regardless of what you call it, the success of your project is determined by the management of your project.
In this session we'll dissect... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Views |
rodOST, steveburge |
When it comes to making a Drupal site really work, no module is more essential than Views.
In fact, Views is so critical to a Drupal site's success that it is being incorporated into Drupal 8 (to... |
Beginner |
Site Building |
Semantic Site Building |
Jody Lynn |
The usability of a CMS for its administrators and editors is closely tied to the semantic sense of the site build. Likewise, the maintainability (including ease of upgrade and feature addition) is... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
CSS3: Now and in the Future |
clamato1 |
CSS continues to develop and with the advent of CSS3 there are some exciting things that are available to designers and developers in the Drupal world. In this session you will learn about new... |
Beginner |
Frontend |
Bloated eCommerce Platforms Kill Conversion Rates |
johnkennedy, pcambra |
Executive Summary
Completing Stage 1 of an eCommerce site for a +$40 Billion luxury retailer has taught us valuable lessons about content-driven commerce. Find out how we brought simplicity to the... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
Franchising Drupal, collaborating on business models in the community |
kvantomme |
Franchising is a powerful growth strategy that has been proven to be one of the most efficient ways for a brand to attain global coverage. Would it be possible to use franchising to help Drupal... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
Advanced Article Assembly: Adventures in atomic asset administration |
tobby |
Content assets may include article text, photos, videos, graph data, sports scores, or even references to other articles. When dealing with enterprise clients, especially (but not limited to) those... |
Advanced |
Coding + Development |
Modelling structured content for the web of data |
tamper |
With rigid hierarchical site maps giving way to rich graphs of knowledge, is the writing on the wall for the content management system?
Structured content atomises complex subjects into the things... |
Intermediate |
User Experience (UX) |
Performance for Site Builders |
erikwebb |
Most "performance" presentations are designed for those developers that straddle the line between coder and sysadmin. In reality many Drupal sites are built completely from the administrative... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Panels for Themers - Creating Highly Flexible Layouts |
davidneedham |
With the power of Panels, you never have to make a .tpl file ever again! Okay, that's not true entirely, but what Panels does give you is the ability you to create Drupal aware layouts that can be... |
Intermediate |
Frontend |
Beginner Theming |
davidneedham |
Session Description
Believe it or not, Drupal makes theming easy!
Drupal provides the themer with a system of overrides that allows you to change literally anything on your site. Themers decide... |
Beginner |
Frontend |
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 |
An Introduction to Structured Data and Semantic Web in Drupal |
keithricker, Sonny Cohen |
An introduction to Structured Data and the Semantic Web. More specifically, we talk about Google's support for Rich Snippets, and how sites like Yelp, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. utilize semantic... |
Intermediate |
Business + Strategy |
The Agile Drupalist |
Canuckaholic |
More and more clients are asking for a Scrum methodology for their projects, but do they really know what they are getting into? Both Waterfall and Scrum are viable methodologies, but each is best... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
Drupal 8 Configuration system for Coders |
alexpott |
Drupal 8 has a new configuration management system. This session will cover how to use from an coding perspective and will be heavy on code samples!
What I'll be covering:
an architectural... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Tools, Tips and Techniques for Private Cloud Deployments |
xbrlspy |
Whether you’re an independent developer or development manager in a large company, “the cloud” is on everyone’s mind. But just because it’s in the cloud, doesn’t mean development and deployment is... |
Beginner |
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 |