Startup Stories - Lessons in Rapid, Agile Prototyping and Development with Drupal |
jay.u, akucharski, jsnoles49 |
Drupal continues to gain increasing momentum among startups, both pure-play startup companies and internal startup groups within large organizations. Join Promet Source and Limina for this exciting... |
Intermediate |
Business + Strategy |
Dojo Toolkit and Drupal: Data Visualization taken to the next level |
freelock |
When it comes to data visualization, few toolkits match what you can do with the Dojo Toolkit. Infinite scrolling grids. Data-enabled geographic charts. Scenario planning. Interactive seating charts... |
Intermediate |
Frontend |
Must Have Modules |
meltonml |
Learn about a few modules that will add valuable functionality for your site editors and end users. Often times, useful modules are not discovered until you hear about them from other Drupal users.... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Curating beautiful collections with Nodequeue (a.k.a. How I built a better Scoop.it) |
rubyji |
When a colleague started using a site called Scoop.it to collect and share resources on a topic of her expertise, I knew my site had a problem. I carved out a large chunk of time, and built a new... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Scalability and high-performance: Lessons learned from hosting the largest Drupal sites on Acquia Cloud |
ricardoamaro |
The world of Drupal grows faster in each passing day!
Large companies, especially in media, entertainment and services, seek for solutions on rapid and reliable development for the web. There... |
Intermediate |
DevOps |
Developing Plugins for Open Atrium 2.0 |
mpotter |
The new Drupal 7 version of Open Atrium is being released and contains many new improvements for building collaboration and Intranet sites. Open Atrium 2 is based upon an extensible plugin... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Vim for Drupal |
CrashTest_ |
This session is for finding out how the old-school editor, Vim, is just dandy for Drupal.
We will cover some cool plugins, and awesome resources, as well as answering questions about how to use... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Drupal, Solr, and When Governments Collaborate to Reduce Landfill Waste |
notoriousjlb, capellic |
Learn how 5 San Francisco Bay area government agencies came together to launch a Drupal 7 and Solr Search powered search tool for residents and businesses to learn how to correctly dispose of things... |
Intermediate |
Government, Nonprofit, and Education |
Build your own Kickstarter with Amazon FPS |
pwall |
With the rise of crowdfunding sites and online marketplaces, the very concept of eccomerce is evolving. This has opened doors for startups and entrepreneurs, while creating endless opportunities to... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Attack of the Clones: Build your favorite site in 48 Hours with Drupal |
keithricker |
Disclaimer: The idea for this presentation is strongly inspired by the following:
a presentation made in 2008 by Lullabot, entitled "Build it with Drupal." video link: http://drupalize.me/videos/... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Enterprise-level Drupal Baseline: Lesson learned in creating an organization-specific light-weight Drupal distribution |
rocket777 |
Open source technologies and Drupal does save an organization money in licensing fees. However, how do you truly save hundreds of thousands of dollars in website development costs at the enterprise-... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Build better websites with Panels |
jenlampton |
Drupal is somewhat limited in how it handles the layout of content on the page. It assumes every page on any given site will use exactly the same layout, and that the only really important content on... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Drupal + PhoneGap - The Mobile App |
jwsj11 |
Mobile is growing fast: 25x over the next five years. In a year or two (if not now), not being present on mobile in a focused manner will be the equivalent of not being present on the web today. With... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Now is the time on Sprockets when we make money: How to run a profitable small digital agency |
Betsy Ensley, mistcat |
Technology is hard, making money can be even harder. Join two seasoned digital agency professionals to learn how to structure your small digital agency for profitability, successful client... |
Intermediate |
Business + Strategy |
Functional PHP |
Crell |
Functional programming. Some see that term and think "functions? You mean procedural programming. I've been doing that for years." Others see it and think "you mean that crazy academic nonsense... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Modeling Your Data with Drupal |
mikey_p |
While content types and fields give you lots of flexibility, what do you do when they still don't match your data?
Is there a simple way to express your clients complex workflow and link that... |
Intermediate |
Coding + Development |
Reverse caching proxies: Varnish or Nginx? |
ThijsFeryn |
In a world full of scalability challenges, a reverse caching proxy has become an essential tool to protect your backend servers. This talk is dedicated to that and compares Varnish to Nginx as the 2... |
Intermediate |
DevOps |
Lets make this with BEAN |
aburrows |
Wanting to have a flexible site, with more control over your content and look and feel? This session will show what BEAN (Block Entities Aren't Nodes) is. It will show a newly launched website, that... |
Intermediate |
Site Building |
Mr Plums Paradise: opening the walled garden of linked data |
xtfer |
Mr Plum's Paradise is a childrens book about linked data, published in 1976. It tells the story of Mr Plum, a budding gardner, who convinces his neighbours to knock down the walls between their... |
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 |