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 |