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UX Travel Guide for Developers User Advocate, tsvenson This is an invitation to developers to relax and enjoy a short vacation in UX Land and get familiar with a foreign culture. Why would you want to do this? Well to help make Drupal rock at UX as much... Beginner User Experience (UX)
How the University of Calgary tamed Drupal: Moving 800 Drupal 5 sites to Drupal 7 dmcburney, sfeil The University of Calgary, one of the largest users of Drupal with over 800 sites recently migrated from Drupal 5 to Drupal 7. This session will take a look at the challenges and solutions to hosting... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
How to Train Your Agency: A Panel Discussion on Teaching Your Tech Partner to Speak EDU HankVanZile, jake.redekop, zchandler, santhana.naidu, girljournalist Universities are from Mars, Agencies are from Venus. With representatives from both sides of the relationship, we will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that arise when higher... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
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
Elegant Content Sharing: RIP Feeds, Hello Large-Scale Content Syndication! sherakama, jhorocks If you have more than one site you may have come across an issue with duplicate content or worse -- the mundane task of having to copy and paste your article several times only to have to update it... Beginner Coding + Development
Designing at the speed of sound: Rapid-fire prototyping production usable code mistcat, rypit The church of the device has never been held under a bigger tent Now “design” is really a series of complex interactions and choices that play out over a cacophony of devices and screens. The... Intermediate Frontend
Open Advocacy - Citizens Connected Goes Open Source sebsebseb123 Citizens Connected is a Drupal module that allows advocacy organizations to maintain databases of supporters... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Drupal is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand Hooks dianadupuis When people first learn about Drupal, their initiation often focuses on nodes, blocks, Views, and how to create SEO-friendly URLs. These concepts are important, but they often fail to answer the most... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal for real life Rock Stars: Creating a multisite platform for artist websites bhouse, petroleumjelliffe, leehammond In this panel session, panelists Lee Hammond, Head of Digital at Interscope, and Pete Jelliffe, Sr. Web Product Manager at WMG, will share their experiences building large scale multisite platforms... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
What is Enterpirse Drupal and How Do You Get Some? rgs, nstango So you think you're ready to develop for the Fortune 500? Drupal's adoption in the Enterprise sector has been staggering and demand for Drupal in the Enterprise has been an important catalyst in... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Puppet on Drupal Servers - Casestudies bernd_weber This presentation is part of a series coordinated with Puppetlabs' Ben Ford and Michael Hall about the use of Puppet on Drupal servers. This particular presentation will show a higher level view of... Beginner DevOps
Agile for Agency Management - it’s not just for developers anymore sadie.honey At CivicActions we are using Agile practices in every aspect of our firm’s operations to build bridges and connect communities within our organization. These practices help us create change when we... Beginner Business + Strategy
You Can Do That In A Browser? Advanced Drupal Development Without Root Access MKorostoff Rebuild nearly 100 complex high traffic websites without doc root access – no access to template files, no additional contributed modules and no writing any custom module code. Wait, what?... Intermediate Frontend
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
"WaterGile" & Drupal — A new flexible project management methodology Schnitzel, dania.gerhardt In a perfect world, Agile would be a flawless project methodology. But the world's not perfect and internet agencies must be prepared to deal with customers with varying or minimal knowledge of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
How Drupal Won the Heart of Princess nate_craddock, subru77 Once upon a time, a family of fair Princess' were assigned a content management system by the King. Though the King's heart was in the right place, that CMS turned out not to be a prince, but a frog... Beginner Business + Strategy
Reinvent Yourself! How a rebrand can revitalize more than just your logo. mcaccavano What's in a name? Or a logo? Well, as it turns out, a lot. In the past year, our team has been part of a merger, and subsequently, a complete brand overhaul for our newly merged company. On the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Hardcore Drupal Caching: Cache Me if You Can ohthehugemanatee There are sessions about caching for beginners, that explain the basic concepts. There are sessions about caching for intermediates, that tell you how cool Varnish is. This is not one of those... Advanced Coding + Development
Leading with Quality ideaseed, fen This session will discuss the importance of, and strategies for, setting the context of Quality from the start of a project, baking it into the development processes, and managing client... Advanced Business + Strategy

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