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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

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