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Life as a Drupal dev: Tips, Pitfalls, Workflow texas-bronius Typical challenges we face include handling local and remote team collaboration, project juggling, learning curve, and hard walls. Let’s dive into some hit-the-ground, specific concepts and tips to... Beginner Coding + Development
Intro to Using jQuery in Drupal attheshow This is a how-to session where you'll see a quick explanation of what the jQuery javascript library is and how you can use it in Drupal. From theming to module building, there are many ways that you... 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
Must Have 10+ Years People Experience ashedryden Solving a technical problem is relatively easy: there tends to be precedence, easily accessible data, black and white results, and a knowledgeable community to lean on when you get really stuck.... Beginner Community
Drupal in the Mainstream: Making Passion Scale gdemet In the last few years, Drupal has exploded in popularity from a niche platform to the software that powers some of the biggest and most important websites in the world. Much of its success to date... Beginner Community
Large Drupal Projects: Blessing or Burden? chrisstrahl, Nicole Lind Drupal in the last couple of years has grown up. It has been chosen, built, and deployed by some of the largest companies and corporations in the world. This maturation has brought a whole new set of... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
University A-Team: Enterprise Level Drupal Training for Higher Ed fenns What does it take to successfully implement a comprehensive Drupal training system at an enterprise level, on a university budget? This session focuses on the following, using the A-Team principle... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Connecting your data with a graph database michael.hunger, iKlaus Leveraging connected data is becoming more and more important in the development of today’s modern web applications – as demonstrated by, for example, Facebook’s recent release of ‘Graph Search.’... Beginner Coding + Development
Figure on Figuring it out: strategies for cracking Drupal without cracking up acrollet Many people find themselves overwhelmed during the first weeks and months they spend working with Drupal. Whether one has a background as a content manager, developer or otherwise, it's easy to fall... Beginner Coding + Development
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
Content Strategy for Drupal Jessica Hui What's the big deal about content strategy? Well, we want content for humans! Today, we see 2010's news items languishing on well designed, solidly built websites. Projects delayed weeks because... Beginner Business + Strategy
Simplifying Search: Understanding Concepts, Patterns, And Techniques To Create Better Search Experiences cpliakas Search is hard. There are solutions in the Drupal community that attempt to simplify the problem of creating engaging search experiences, however it is important to understand the general concepts... 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
Communication for Communities with Drupal schiavone Since its beginnings Drupal has been a tool for building communities, facilitating communication, and encouraging collaboration. Buried inside Drupal core are some powerful tools, some new and some... Beginner Site Building
10 Things I Hate About You: Gross Generalizations of the Gaps Between Dev and Design Mark Newell, Marc DeLay We dress differently, talk differently, act differently, and most importantly, think differently. Designers value shine, and developers value structure. Designers dress to show off their apparently... Beginner Site Building
Web Form UX: The overlooked aspect of web development jmoughon What is the big deal? Forms are meant to be filled out right? If you do not develop a good form experience, users can get frustrated or spend unnecessary time filling out forms. Lets take the pain... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Rapid Drupal Development Using the Features Module mrconnerton, mpotter In this session, we will discuss using the latest 2.x version of the Features Module to build out reusable site functionality by pulling together entities, content types, fields, views, context and... Beginner Site Building
Powering a Crowd-Sourced Marketplace with Drupal + Commerce OpenSesame Online marketplaces are popular business models - they’re a big, scalable opportunity, but they also present unique challenges. How do you support different buyers and sellers and all of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Going Beyond the Magic: Codifying Culture to Build a Kick Ass Team matt westgate Have you ever wanted to take vacation but didn't know who to ask? Have you wanted to attend a Drupalcon but didn't know if your company had an event policy? Ever wanted to vent but didn't know... Beginner Business + Strategy

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