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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
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
When Data is Everywhere, Where Do You Start? Using Drupal to Manage, Distribute, and Visualize Data kvoelker Data visualizations, open data, aggregation, infographics, data stories... It seems we're all supposed to be doing amazing things with our data these days. But getting there still seems hard. In... Intermediate Business + Strategy
How Drupal will Help Millions of New Yorkers Get There on Time rgs The NYC MTA recently announced the availability of Real Time Data Feeds for developers at http://datamine.mta.info. Learn how this custom API portal was built on Drupal 7 to support millions of daily... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Responsive Design for Print Publications webwags On most sites, the annual report is just PDF version of the print piece. You know you need it on your site but it’s so ho-hum boring that hardly anybody ever downloads it. And if someone did click on... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
The Drupal Ladder: Materials and activities for meetups to learn about and contribute to Drupal 8 bryanhirsch, kay_v, add1sun As Drupal’s popularity sky-rockets, so does the volume of issues and sense of urgency for problems to get solved fast. To keep up, we need to get more people contributing to Drupal core. There are a... Intermediate Community
Being Devops Cultured: Building Tools to Empower Teams & Share Culture in FOSS Communities patcon It's way too easy to get flamboyantly excited about all the shiny new tools and accompanying buzz-words that are emerging from the devops realm -- Configuration management tools like Puppy... Intermediate DevOps
Marketing-Minded Design: Little Design Changes WILL Lead to Bigger Money mitchholt, no longer here 251296 Beauty doesn't earn bucks. The site you've created might look amazing but not serve its purpose to generate leads or sell units. How can you effectively modify the usability aspects of your... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Enterprise Development in Drupal Gardens timaholt Ever wanted to develop sites in Drupal Gardens? Ever outgrown the limitations of the ThemeBuilder? Ever wanted to do responsive design in Gardens? This session will give you best practices in... Intermediate Frontend
On Beyond Mobile: Content-First Design axoplasm Instapaper. Readability. Pocket. Safari Reader. Just as we’re figuring out responsive and mobile-first design, content-scrapers step in and repurpose our design beyond the reach of @media queries.... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Tricking Out Your Ride: Bringing the User Experience to Stock Drupal metaltoad The expectation for great administrative experiences continues to increase every day, but stock Drupal 7 is still the same experience it was when it launched a year and a half ago. What's a UX... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Lowering barriers to upstream contribution: A simple git-subtree workflow for managing Drupal modules ezheidtmann Keeping track of the source history for a large Drupal site is hard. With core, contrib modules, themes, custom modules, and perhaps even a few patches to contrib modules, it quickly becomes... Intermediate DevOps
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

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