Accepted sessions

Session Experience level Track
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
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
Automating and Testing Drupal with Zombie.js
Travis Tidwell

The Bite
It all begins with the bite... Let's say you need to automate something repetitive that you always do within the Drupal UI. Or, maybe you would like to write...

Advanced Drupal Developer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saturday Night Party

Houlihans @ 5:30 pm
660 Town Center Blvd.
Garland, TX 75040

Advanced
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
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
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
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
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