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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
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
Platform is Prologue: Fueling Innovation and Mobile on Energy.gov thekellye, srjosh Your platform is built and you don’t have time/budget for a full responsive redesign. Learn how Energy.gov retrofit for mobile using current budget and development cycles without a traditional... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Fostering social inclusion and civic empowerment with VoIP Drupal leoburd Come learn about VoIP Drupal (http://voipdrupal.org/), a versatile open source communication toolkit that adds the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal web sites. It can be used to build... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Better Git it in Your Soul - Git Basics _vid, theMusician Git has continued to be the version control system of choice for Drupal and the related projects. If you have yet to take the plunge or are unsure of how to use git with Drupal during development... Beginner Coding + Development
Building voice, SMS and web portals with VoIP Drupal leoburd Come learn about VoIP Drupal (http://voipdrupal.org/), a versatile open source communication toolkit that adds the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal web sites. It can be used to build... Intermediate Coding + Development
Selling Development: From Yes to Done agentrickard Successful projects establish long-term relationships between client and consultant. The foundation for that success begins with your sales process and how you frame the work to be done. Setting... Beginner Business + Strategy
Git and the Drupal Database MKorostoff Drupal's reliance on database-level configuration is both a blessing and a curse. While in-browser site building drastically reduces the Drupal learning curve, enables rapid prototyping, and shortens... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Ultimate Toolbox –Using Content to Build Your Dream Home moondancerjen Building a powerful content and social strategy is a lot like building a house—various tools are needed to keep all of the pieces moving and working together. Workflow. Content development for... Intermediate Site Building
Agile Site Development with Drupal Owen Barton Drupal sites are getting larger and more sophisticated, with aggressive deadlines and budgets. In this session we will cover a number of ways you can incorporate agile methodologies into your... Intermediate Site Building
Don’t Leave’em Hangin’ - Ensuring End-User Happiness Through Proper Training trentwyman Are you introducing Drupal to someone who has never worked with a content management system before? Have you just built a new Drupal site and ready to hand it off to a client? Or, do you have a... Intermediate Business + Strategy
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
Coding beyond your problem and looking toward a solution for the Drupal community caiosba This session will show contributions to the Drupal community made by the speaker and the Meedan engineering team as a whole. Most of those contributions came along with the need to solve some problem... Intermediate Community
Adaptive Content with Drupal cedewey, joelsteidl Creating structured, flexible content is increasingly important as we all access information across devices and within multiple contexts. This session dives into the ways Clayton and Joel have... Beginner Site Building
How to incrementally integrate QA in an Agile Development Process Everett Zufelt, akshaybarve As Drupal continues to grow to be a platform fit for large scale enterprise applications, integrating Quality Assurance (QA) into development processes will become more of a pressing concern. Well... Beginner Business + Strategy
Custom Compound Fields tobby Suppose you need to create a compound field, which consists of several different form elements (a select and several text fields). You can now create a basic compound field in three basic steps.... Intermediate Site Building
Zen and the Art of Estimating Owen Barton Estimating can take many forms, from estimating tasks to entire Drupal projects, working with anything from a one line story to thousand pages of specs. Most people find it hard, and many people find... Beginner Business + Strategy
Responsive Web Design: Choose Your Own Adventure! gregnoack, elizabet_, eric@squishymedia.com Have you ever wondered, "What is Responsive Web Design (RWD)?" Does it seem to you that it is a fancy new toy that will phase out and isn’t worth the money? Or perhaps you want your Business Strategy... Beginner Business + Strategy
Building an extensible API to serve drupal content to other websites and mobile devices dishui For organizations that has a lot of data in drupal sites, they can easily create an uniform api to service those data to their mobile applications, to create new web presentation layer. I'll discuss... Intermediate Coding + Development
Git workflows bryanhirsch This will be a fast-paced tour through the wonderful world of version control with Git. Whether you're a lone ranger or a team, a small fish or a big enterprise fish, if you don't love Git yet this... Intermediate Coding + Development

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