BACKBONE ♥'S DRUPAL - Liberate the server from client tasks! |
robbieferrero |
The internet has grown up and so should Drupal. Browsers have become powerful platforms and users expectations become more mature. Using Drupal with frameworks like Backbone.js can get us there.... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Do more with LESS |
ronnbot, lorendavidson |
LESS extends CSS with dynamic behaviour and runs on both the client-side and server-side (with the Drupal LESS module). It is also receiving more active development lately (compared to Sass).
In... |
Beginner |
Frontend |
Creating a Drupal Co-op - the Ins and Outs |
MatthewS |
How do you manage the risk of hiring full time staff? How can your one-man-shop ever take on large projects? You should consider a co-op.
A cooperative of Drupal professionals is a great way to... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
A GPS for Drupal: how to record, play and pause documentation and configuration walkthroughs. |
kvantomme |
The documentation process in our community is broken. As long as we keep solely depending on a group of dedicated highly altruistic individuals it will never become sustainable. Documentation should... |
Beginner |
Coding + Development |
Project Management Processes - Get Your Efficiency On |
MatthewS |
Learn from my 18 years of Project Management Experience. I've done it all - cowboy, waterfall, extreme, and agile scrum.
Learn why...
Waterfall doesn't always work
Agile has a place, but isn't... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
Drupal M&A: Under the Covers |
jwalpole, wesku, Fred Plais, mcaccavano |
Come on. We know you want to ask. Bring your best questions to a panel of Drupal merger veterans (Phase2, Commerce Guys... |
Intermediate |
Business + Strategy |
Reloading Rules UX with fluxkraft! |
fago |
The Rules module gives superpowers to site-builders by enabling them to define conditionally executed actions based on any occurring event. However, with its current user interface common tasks are... |
Intermediate |
User Experience (UX) |
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 |
Social Drupal – To Infinity and Beyond |
Susan Cato |
Your website may already be a star, but the online universe is all about shining light beyond your site to include other channels—including social networks, email newsletters, and mobile applications... |
Advanced |
Business + Strategy |
Parlez-vous Drupal? Translating a complex Drupal site into a second language. |
Kristen Pol, susanmccormick, Aimee Degnan, mrf |
What happens if your client has a complex Drupal website and decides it needs to handle another language? What if you need to develop and maintain the two sites separately: the old one and the new... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Outsourcing Drupal - A 360º View |
MatthewS, csg, lindsayo, ohthehugemanatee |
An outsourcER and outsourceEE firm provide a 360º overview of their relationship and why it works. We show how two shops - one in the United States and one in Hungary - have embraced outsourcing to... |
Beginner |
Business + Strategy |
Who's on First? Building Knowledge Management Systems in Drupal |
rgs |
Learn how Drupal can be used to create sophisticated e-learning platforms across different industries and segments.
Take a tour of knowledge management functionality built for industry leaders... |
Beginner |
Site Building |
Behaviour-driven development and regression testing with Behat |
alberto56 |
Learn how TP1 and the STM (Montreal's transit authority) are managing stakeholder expectations, regression tests and the team's understanding of specifications using Behat, Mink and Selenium.... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
DevOps 101: building a development environment for a Drupal shop |
ohthehugemanatee, MatthewS |
Do you know someone who's starting their own Drupal shop?
Have they asked you for help yet?
Around the world, individual Drupalists are starting their own consulting firms. Just take a look at... |
Beginner |
DevOps |
How Drupal is Bringing Value to Academia Research |
jyee, irinaz |
Drupal is becoming a powerful research tool that relieves faculty and researchers from working on creating and managing databases and user interface tools and allows them to focus on actual research... |
Beginner |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
Content Strategy for Search Driven User Experience with Google Search Appliance and Drupal |
shawnmole, mistcat |
On some sites, especially those with large amounts of evergreen content, a user's experience is heavily biased towards searching. Designing for search can yield great benefits, and a good search can... |
Intermediate |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
100 modules and a baby |
Dave Reid, Oliver Reid |
While I have been a Drupal developer, I've gone through several major life changes in the last two years alone. I started my first real full-time Drupal job, I got married, and last October I became... |
Beginner |
Community |
Schema.org-based Drupal Development |
Sheldon Rampton, scor |
Schema.org was created to provide “a collection of schemas ... that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers.” It is part of a broader effort to develop... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Distributing the CMS |
jeppehamming, Hugo Wetterberg |
When you build a high scale media site, you always get caught in between. You want to have a distributed setup with several independent sites, but at the same time you want to be able to share... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
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 |