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Creating campaigns with Drupal ChrisChinchilla In this sessions we look at utilising a variety of Drupal modules, tools and techniques to create standalone campaigns for your non-profits (or company's) site. These could be sub sites, micro-sites... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Solr and Search API - Get Better Results Now robeano, cgreenoh, becw DevsBuild.It, the services site for the Application Developers Alliance trade association, is a great example of Solr and Search API integration. The Application Developers Alliance is a trade... Intermediate Site Building
OpenScholar as a SaaS platform ferdi OpenScholar is an open source SaaS platform built as a Drupal distribution. It’s a web site builder application that allows end users to easily create dynamic and customizable web sites on the fly.... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Using Apache Solr Search Integration for Your Next Project pwolanin Do you have an upcoming project that is going to need custom search functionality, or integration with external Solr indexes? This talk will discuss the advantages of using the Apache Solr Search... Intermediate Coding + Development
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades: A Case Study of upgrading County HealthRankings.org jennjohnson, setvik Are you considering a major Drupal upgrade? Forum One will present lessons learned from our recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Building a Better Base with Bootstrap EvanLovely Don't reinvent the wheel, stand on the shoulders of giants! One of the best things to come into the Front End Developers arsenal in a while is the beautiful and powerful UI framework Bootstrap, baked... Intermediate Frontend
Drupal Bit by Bit: Quest of the Request webkenny Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a procedural system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually... Intermediate Coding + Development
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)
iOS Native application development with Drupal kylebrowning Mobile Strategy is becoming critical to brands who want to provide their users with more accessible and interactive information while on the go. Native apps provide a great way for these... Intermediate Coding + Development
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
PANEL: State of the (Freelance) Union kbell, stevepurkiss, pirog, Andrew_Mallis, j. ayen green Are you a Drupal freelancer? Do you love the freelancing life (at least most of the time)? You're not alone! This session will share strategies designed to help you love your life ALL the time.... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Value Based Sales Techniques and Drupal jlambert At Workhabit, we've been selling Drupal for more than seven years, to some of the largest organizations in the world. We're going to cover the inside tips that Drupal organizations really need to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
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
Provision and Deploy a Drupal Web Farm From the Command Line markjbrown Public cloud platforms make it very easy to provision servers to run Drupal. Tools like Drush make it very easy to manage and deploy Drupal. This session will show you how to write shell scripts to... Intermediate DevOps
Drupal for Publishers: How to build a better newsroom CMS kbasarab Drupal is all about content management, which makes it perfect for all sorts of media outlets. But those outlets, whether newspaper, television, or magazine, have specific needs that need to be... Intermediate Site Building
Backbone.js and Drupal - Blurring the Lines Between Client and Server iduggan Drupal and Backbone.js is a powerful combination, creating a seamless web experience for end users. Backbone.js makes it easy to create powerful applications that blur the lines between the Client... Intermediate Frontend
Extending Drupal with a CRM ChrisChinchilla A CRM (Contact Relationship Manager or Constituent Relationship Manager depending on your sector) is a fantastic way to take your Drupal installation further and streamline your business practises... Intermediate Business + Strategy
High-Performance Drupal: Server Architecture rgristroph A basic overview of the standard "best practices" server architecture for Drupal (the "Mercury stack") will be covered, as well as extending it to clusters of servers. We will discuss evolutions... Intermediate DevOps
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
Hack your team, your department, and your organization for the greater good jmertic Many of us complain about how "pointy hair bosses", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the... Intermediate Business + Strategy

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