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The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second (How to sleep without the server-crash-fear) Schnitzel Hosting small to medium-sized Drupal sites isn't typically a big challenge. But what about large sites where up-time is business-critical for a customer? How should we as Drupal sys admins best... Intermediate DevOps
The Voice of Switzerland: How to handle 5000 visits per second (How to sleep without the server-crash-fear) Schnitzel Hosting small to medium-sized Drupal sites isn't typically a big challenge. But what about large sites where up-time is business-critical for a customer? How should we as Drupal sys admins best... Intermediate DevOps
The Ultimate Toolbox –Using Content to Build Your Dream Home moondancerjen Building a powerful content and social strategy is a lot like building a house—various tools are needed to keep all of the pieces moving and working together. Workflow. Content development for... Intermediate Site Building
The Tao of Project Management (It's Not About the Tools) atedgerton, chrisstrahl Drupal loves to talk about tools. They’re something you can touch, see, use, and wield. However, much like a sword, tools can be ineffective or even dangerous in the wrong hands. It’s great that we... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Swiss Army Knife of Drupal Project Planning: The CivicActions Project Framework ianrhett Every Drupal project is a solution to a client problem and the beauty of Drupal is its flexibility in solving problems. As a wise project architect once said, “There are many paths to the top of the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
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
The strategy of giving back: How contributing to Drupal can make your company thrive owenlansbury Many companies struggle to balance client work with contributing back to the Drupal project, but things become much easier when it's embedded into your core business strategy. Whether your company... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Story of 10gen.com riboflavin, DyanneNova 10gen.com is the corporate site for 10gen, the makers of MongoDB. Last year, 10gen made the decision to migrate away from its legacy website backend, built in-house using the WebPy framework, to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
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
The Psychology of Qualification: Identifying Truly Rewarding Projects bskowron Most of us have heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs at some point in our life. It's a theory of human motivation which posits that humans seek to satisfy certain basic needs (like food, water,... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
The Many Ways Aegir Can Help Your Business ergonlogic The Aegir Hosting System is the only fully free and open source distributed provisioning system for Drupal. It allows you to manage anywhere from a few sites for a single organization, to thousands... Intermediate Business + Strategy
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
The Library of the Future - Solr Search and Responsive Design for Multnomah County Library MobileHippie The Multnomah County Library is the second largest public library in the U.S. by circulation. We are second only to the New York Public Library system. We move more books, music, movies (and more)... Advanced Site Building
The King’s Scribe - Why Content Strategists are Your Most Important Team Member Chris Gaffney Content is the most vital aspect of any website - the living material providing meaning and value to the user. Content is a website’s expression - encompassing the message, theme and story that you’... Beginner User Experience (UX)
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
The Four Pillars of Data dianadupuis, StevenWill As Drupal moves beyond "content publishing" and towards "content as data", are you managing data to its full potential? Are you storing content, but should you be proving systems to develop... Beginner Business + Strategy
The first-class "Page" of Drupal 8 sdboyer Drupal, with its love of alters, has always had a pretty malleable model of just what makes up the HTML on any given "page." Modules are free to hook in just about anywhere to add and modify what's... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Fight Against Divitis dcmouyard Are you a semantic HTML purist that cringes when you view the source of a Drupal site? Are you a hard-core performance ninja that wants to optimize the DOM? Do you love the power and flexibility of... Advanced Frontend
The Evolution of Front-end Components and Templates JohnAlbin PHP, of course, was designed as a templating language. And over its lifetime, Drupal has iterated over several templating systems striving to improve its capabilities and ease-of-use. However, our... Advanced Core Conversations

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