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The end of Hooks Crell Drupal 8 will ship with not one but two event systems. One is the Symfony Event Dispatcher. The other is hooks. But really, do we need two event systems? No, we don't. Hooks have served us well... Advanced Core Conversations
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
The CLAIR Distribution: A Collections Management System for Museums and Institutions rj, thesleuth, energee CLAIR is an open-source Collections And Internal Records management system built on Drupal. It gives museums and institutions the ability to manage online collections and can be used as an "out-of-... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
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)
The Business of Community Steve Purkiss How do you make the most of Drupal's phenomenal growth and leverage the community for your business? The Drupal project is the largest Free and Open Source Software community in the world,... Beginner Business + Strategy
The business of being a software developer thejmather There are many things about business theory that is never talked about in our circles: disruption, jobs to be done, pricing, engagement practices, billable hours, and most importantly, how to... Beginner Business + Strategy
The biggest Drupal Commerce project ever done Damien Tournoud, Artusamak, laurentchardin We will share the knowledge we have acquired while building the most challenging Drupal Commerce implementation ever. This project, the ecommerce store-front of a leading jewellery and watch... Beginner Coding + Development
The AJAX Framework in Drupal 7 mrconnerton This session will be for developers that want to learn how to make the sexy happen with ajax in Drupal 7. We will learn how to incorporate the new core ajax framework into our custom modules to... Beginner Coding + Development
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
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
The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The (Digital) Place You Love Is Gone: Designing for Permanence jsokohl So many times we design for new users, with only a passing nod at existing ones. But what happens when we redesign a familiar experience, especially one that people have "grown up with"? What happens... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Text Lacks Empathy noirin Have you ever written a nice friendly email and gotten a reply that seems like they read a terrifying rant? In Open Source communities we write to each other all the time, but we’re not really... Beginner Community
Ten years of FOSS hosting at the OSU Open Source Lab ramereth For the past ten years the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) has provided hosting for 150 open source projects from around the world. Some of the projects we provide hosting include... Intermediate DevOps
Teaching Drupal to be an LMS djdevin Drupal already has many great educational tools from content creation to assessments to surveys to crediting to certification. So how many modules does it take to build a robust Learning Management... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Taming Your Inner Cowboy Coder - A Simple and Sane DevOps Workflow ezheidtmann, gchaix Moving Drupal sites from your development environment to a staging or production server can be time-consuming and challenging. This session will provide you with easy-to-use tools and workflow to... Beginner DevOps
Taming Views with Themes, jQuery, and CSS jrowny With jQuery and Views you can create a wide array of useful widgets, blocks, and pages. From advanced "spreadsheet" style tables to implementing beautiful galleries, jQuery and Views is the way to go... Beginner Frontend
Taming Monster Drupal Queries with Akiban posulliv Drupal is nearly universally deployed with MySQL as the backend database. We’ve all heard the NoSQL and NewSQL terms thrown around and there are many interesting new database products available.... Intermediate Coding + Development
Tales from DevOps Hell—Deploying and Maintaining Large-Scale Drupal Sites in the Real World, or How to Accidentally Trigger a Mutiny BMDan As Director of Operations at BlackMesh, I've shepherded the deployment of sites as diverse as the official webpage of a Presidential cabinet-level agency, to the world's largest point-of-sale system... Intermediate DevOps
Take Control of File I/O with Stream Wrappers whastings PHP provides an useful abstraction for managing file I/O called stream wrappers and defines an interface for developers to utilize. Drupal extends PHP’s native interface, creates multiple wrappers in... Intermediate Coding + Development

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