Accepted sessions
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Advanced Frontend Performance Chris Ruppel As HTML5 apps become the norm and mobile context dominates over desktop, the importance of frontend performance is exploding. We want websites to do cool new things, but more importantly they must... |
Advanced | Drupal Developer |
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Advanced Responsive Theming Mark Carver There are a variety of themes available on Drupal.org, many of which are responsive. If you have ever tried, however, creating a custom [sub-]theme you may have noticed it takes a bit of work to... |
Advanced | Design and Theming |
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Automating and Testing Drupal with Zombie.js Travis Tidwell The Bite |
Advanced | Drupal Developer |
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Better Search Engine Optimization with Drupal Joe Hyde There's such a confusing maze of SEO modules and techniques for Drupal that what I see in the Drupal world is no one doing it right. In this session, we'll cover the "must-have's" of SEO... |
Beginner | Drupal Foundations & Sitebuilding |
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Building Social Media Apps Ian Whitcomb Social networks come in all flavors, and there are just as many ways of getting their sharing buttons onto your website. Given that there can be any number of different social networks that you... |
Intermediate | Drupal Developer |
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Can Drupal be a Disruptive Force in Social Business Software? Jeff Walpole Whether you call it an intranet, a portal, social software or a collaboration tool, chances are your organization has a web-accessible system for knowledge management. The bad news is that... |
Beginner | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |
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CiviCRM: Overview and Case Studies Peter Petrik Need a solution for a professional society, membership-driven association, or a non-profit organization that handles contact management, membership renewals, bulk email, event registration, and... |
Beginner | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |
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Drupal 8 Plugin System Deep Dive Kris Vanderwater The Drupal 8 plugin system provides a new set of options within Drupal for discovery, instantiation and invocation beyond what traditional hooks have provided in past version of Drupal core. The... |
Advanced | Drupal Developer |
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Drupal is going to take you higher (ed): Seven Case Studies from Higher Education David Diers In this session we’ll take a look at 7 unique higher education case studies showcasing the diversity of Drupal solutions in the .edu space. We spoke with university IT implementers across the... |
Beginner | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |
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From Awful to Awesome - Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Better Design Brent Bice From paper to pixels, I will walk you through LevelTen's design process. I will share tools, tips and tricks for creating professional designs and introduce the process we've created for... |
Intermediate | Design and Theming |
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Hacking the Facebook Graph API Dennis Yu Let's explore the wild world of Facebook data-- how it's organized and how to mine it to grow traffic for your community. We'll look at what these metrics mean, how to implement domain insights,... |
Intermediate | Drupal Developer |
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High-efficiency development using a Linux desktop (Getting up & running from beginner to advanced) Joshua Walker I use the term 'desktop' rather than 'environment' to not confuse with IDE / server setups. This session would discuss setting up your home PC or laptop with Linux and the required tools to... |
Beginner | Drupal Foundations & Sitebuilding |
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How to Recruit and Retain Top Talent Glenn Hilton The last few years have consistently seen 10%+- global unemployment as much of world is mired in an economic recession. However, the demand for top Drupal talent remains strong. In this session,... |
Beginner | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |
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Jenkins: Basic DevOps in an Afternoon Robert Ristroph You will learn how to install Jenkins, use it to automatically backup Drupal sites, promote changes from development to staging to production, roll back failed changes, and perform some simple... |
Beginner | Drupal Developer |
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Saturday Night Party Houlihans @ 5:30 pm |
Advanced | |
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Stop Coding, Start Clicking - Pragmatic Site Building Kyle Taylor Do you love writing custom Views templates? Do you enjoy building custom modules that are subpar to the modules that already exist on Drupal.org? If so, this isn't for you. In this session... |
Beginner | Drupal Foundations & Sitebuilding |
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Taming Drupal Randall Knutson Do you ever feel that Drupal is like getting a bucket full of legos without instructions? You see other people building these amazing lego structures but can't manage to get the pieces together... |
Beginner | Drupal Foundations & Sitebuilding |
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Texas Instruments Alumni Association’s Drupal-based civiCRM Application – an outcome worth the migration challenges Barbara Errickson This Case study is focused on the Texas Instruments Alumni Association's Migration from a set of ACCESS database tables managed via Active Server Page scripting coupled with numerous manual steps... |
Intermediate | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |
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The Backend of Frontend Development Ian Carrico Sass and Compass have changed the way that we have made CSS, and the tools that they provide are growing and becoming increasingly important. As these tools grow, the need to know how to code with... |
Advanced | Design and Theming |
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Too Big to Scale? Why Enterprise Websites Fail to Scale Josh Koenig (& how some companies are breaking free from their own servers) For a large company with a mission-critical site, launch day is a day of reckoning. The bigger the website, the... |
Beginner | Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices |