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IRC: Collaborating with the wizards behind the curtain ksenzee The most prolific and well-known Drupal contributors collaborate real-time using IRC (Internet Relay Chat). They talk about patches up for review and changes they want to make to Drupal and its... Beginner Community
The Care and Feeding of your Online Community (with ice cream!) deviantintegral You've installed Drupal, downloaded Organic Groups, added a few content types, and have your first community site. Ready to launch! Right? It's really easy to get excited about about all of the... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Usability Testing: What You Need to Know! lebson You’ve developed a Drupal website and it seems like things make sense to you and to Drupal users but you want to make sure that it’s going to be usable to your end user. What is usability... Beginner User Experience (UX)
How Alex Ross (Bleen) Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Agile adzuki3, bleen18 One Drupal Developer’s Agile Experience - In this presentation we will follow Bleen as he joins a project at NBCUniversal that uses an agile process, his initial reluctance to even be part of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Upgrade Your Offer! How to Sell Business Value solipsist In order to stay relevant and be competitive, Drupal shops need to shift focus to take on a bigger role and take responsibility for the results of web investments, and not just code. The usual "sites... Beginner Business + Strategy
Spam is War geerlingguy You just set up a website. You started getting spam. You enabled CAPTCHA. The spam stopped for a while, but it came back. You enabled Mollom. Same thing. Welcome to the battlefield, kid. Spam is... Beginner Site Building
Leveraging the Community and Other Techniques For Learning Drupal eojthebrave, KHofmeyer Are you ready to learn Drupal? Already know some Drupal and want to increase your knowledge? Or maybe you've been around the block a couple of times and now need to learn a whole slew of new tools... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal as a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) sumitk Drupal can act as a great Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), providing a fast and easy way to build connected mobile apps. You can build your custom cloud platform using a variety of available... Beginner Coding + Development
Drupal - Bridging the Data Divide acouch, bendygirl, richard.c.allen2386 Data is more than just data. It's work, it's fun, it's information, it's everything we want to get to and everywhere we've already been. Today, we're using Drupal to bridge the data divide by making... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Break the Mold; Build a Better Team; See Big Results jwalpole, febbraro It's no secret that building a team for your Drupal shop is a big challenge facing our space right now. Finding enough qualified Drupal developers -- and keeping them -- keeps many of us up at night... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
Drupal 8 Module Building Basics vlkff, Fabianx Drupal 8 is coming, and it already has more than 100 contributed modules. If you want to begin building modules for Drupal 8, then this session is for you. If you have a contributed module, and want... Beginner Coding + Development
Let's Talk About PCI Compliance for Drupal rickmanelius Drupal makes it incredibly easy to turn even the simplest website into a full fledged commerce solution. All you have to do is download a few modules, check a few boxes, and you’re up and running in... Beginner Business + Strategy
Creating a User-Centered Design Strategy for Improved Business Performance DSheffler When most people think of usability, they think of time-consuming and expensive testing and design. Realistically, however, there are several easy and inexpensive ways to incorporate user-centered... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Content Strategies, SEO, and Social Media: Secret Weapons for Driving Traffic, Engaging, and Converting TomDude48 All companies, no matter what the size, must start to think more like publishers than ever before. Consumer behavior has changed drastically over the past few years. Joe Pulizzie Author:... Beginner Business + Strategy
10 Ways to Cost Drupal Projects Mark Matuschka If there are 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, there have to be at just about as many ways to cost a Drupal project. I’m going to discuss ten of them and show how all ten are valid in different... Beginner Business + Strategy
Getting Twiggy with it ronnbot, Gekiboy Twig is a flexible template engine for PHP which helps make templates readable by a front-end developer. It's also the template engine which will be coming bundled with Drupal 8. In this talk we look... Beginner Frontend
Delivering Drupal: Processes for Success rcross Drupal websites aren’t just a matter of downloading the package from drupal.org, whipping up a database and installing a stack of modules. The actual site build can often be the tip of a much larger... Beginner Business + Strategy
Why Drupal Developers are Different ldpm Drupal attracts many developers who want to help create solutions, not just outcomes. If you are just giving your developers tasks to work on and leaving them alone until they're done, you're not... Beginner Business + Strategy
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

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