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Every Drupal needs a Host - an Insiders tip on what to look for in a Host snickn The Hosting account you select for your Drupal website is as important as any part of the site. A poor host can be slow, or worse - often down. Nick Nelson, ten year veteran of the hosting industry,... Beginner Site Building
Using LoadStorm And Other Tools To Stress Out Your Drupal Website akucharski We all know that Varnish is the default answer for performance, but what happens when you have to flush cache? LoadStorm provides a quick, cheap, and easy way to slam your Drupal site with thousands... Intermediate Coding + Development
10 Things I Hate About You: Gross Generalizations of the Gaps Between Dev and Design Mark Newell, Marc DeLay We dress differently, talk differently, act differently, and most importantly, think differently. Designers value shine, and developers value structure. Designers dress to show off their apparently... Beginner Site Building
Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy Kristen Pol, Aimee Degnan In case you've been living in a cave (or maybe a Vogon ship's cabin) the last few years, SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization." Improving your website's SEO can translate into more visitors,... Beginner Site Building
Start-up Weekends - Drupal FTW!! dboeger Using Drupal to leverage Start-Up Weekends and code hackathons. Build communities, lead by example, be Johnny Drupal-seed. Let's develop Drupal SUW commandos who crash the Start-Up ecosystems... Beginner Community
Multi-headed Drupal Crell One of the strengths of Drupal is that it's not just a tool for building a single website. It can be used equally well for managing multiple companion sites together. This capability has existed for... Intermediate Site Building
Functional PHP Crell Functional programming. Some see that term and think "functions? You mean procedural programming. I've been doing that for years." Others see it and think "you mean that crazy academic nonsense... Intermediate Coding + Development
Funding your Drupal project heyrocker Everyone has projects they want to code, and nobody has the time to do it, and the main reason there is no time is because everyone has to work to pay their rent, feed the cat, attend camps, etc.... Beginner Coding + Development
New MySQL 5.6 Features and how to exploit them for Drupal davidstokes MySQL 5.6, the heart of most Drupal sites, has many new features that can greatly enhance the speed of your Drupal site. Come to this session to learn how to exploit the new features and... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Proper Care and Feeding of your MySQL Database davidstokes MySQL is the database for most Drupal sites. But what do you need to do to keep your database happy? What signs do you watch for to make sure it is healthy? How often do you have to backup data?... Beginner DevOps
Supporting the Web in Higher Education - All roads lead to Drupal lieb Supporting the Web in Higher Education - All roads lead to Drupal Target Audience: Anyone supporting the web in higher education. While a good foundation in how the web, and Drupal, works, no... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Project Management Tools and Organization akucharski, jsnoles49 As many Drupal development firms continue to evolve and mature, we often run into many management issues involved with the growing pains. One of the biggest of those issues is effective and efficient... Beginner Business + Strategy
Tutoring@Colorado State University: Connecting students with opportunities for ongoing learning JimFolk Tutoring services on university campuses play an important role in increasing student retention rates and improving overall academic success. Despite this significance, tutoring on university... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
You’re Selling Solutions — But What Are the Problems? thursdaybram As a Drupal developer, you solve problems for your clients. But do you actually know what problems you’re solving? When someone brings you a project, they’ve come to the conclusion that the solution... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Making software management tools work for you jmertic With the advent of such rich open source tools such as GitHub, Travis CI, and others, managing software projects of any size has become much easier than ever. But how do you best use these tools in... Intermediate Coding + Development
Hack your team, your department, and your organization for the greater good jmertic Many of us complain about how "pointy hair bosses", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Managing your prospects, leads, and customers with SugarCRM and Drupal jmertic Drupal is a great platform for sharing content with your prospects, leads, and customers. But when it comes to managing them, for example keeping track of history, analyzing buying trends, or... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Performance analysis with XHProf Kars-T In this Session you will learn about: Profiling with XHPRof Installation Benefits XHProf VS xDebug Automatic usage Profiling small parts of the code Combination with the devel module... Beginner Coding + Development
Views for Developers; An Architectural Overview Bevan Views is an immensely powerful and extensible system. It can be used to solve a wide range of problems and present many different types of displays; More than what most people realise, even after... Advanced Coding + Development
The Survivors Guide from The Overnight Website Challenge cosmicdreams Building Professional Drupal Websites Faster and More Efficiently on a Deadline Building a professional Drupal website under time constraints is never easy. There are numerous roadblocks,... Beginner Business + Strategy

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