Proposed Sessions

Session Experience level Track
The Agile (R)evolution: embrace the future of web development
Tom McCracken

Web development is hard, very hard – and it’s getting harder. But there is hope, a radically different approach called agile.

If you build websites, you know the pressure. Modern websites...

Beginner
Building Web Leaders With Drupal
Tom McCracken

The world is undergoing the most profound shift of basic premises in the last several hundred years, if not the last thousand or so years... Sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
Tom...

Beginner
MySQL -- care and feeding for your database
Dave Stokes

MySQL is the database behind many Drupal sites but most people operating a Drupal site are unfamiliar with how to keep their database healthy and happy. This session covers basic MySQL...

Intermediate
Don't Break Your Live Site! How to do Enterprise Level Deployment with Drupal
Randall Knutson

One of my first questions when I started getting into Drupal 5 years ago was how to do testing and deployment of a Drupal site. At the time there was no good answer but since then some great tools...

Intermediate
Using the Web without a Browser
Keith Casey

Generally, when we design of User Interfaces, we think of color, alignment, and pixels. Unfortunately there are times when you can't use a browser or it just doesn't make sense. So what if we...

Intermediate
Intro to Drush
Diana Montalion Dupuis, Aaron Forsander

When I was introduced to drush, a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, I thought, “Meh, I can do those tasks already in about the same time with no learning curve.” Now? “Omg! Do...

Beginner
Debugging Techniques for Drupal
Robert Ristroph

A general approach to debugging Drupal problems will be presented, followed by an overview of a variety of tools such as the Devel suite, krumo, xdebug, and client side debugging such as Firebug...

Intermediate
Successfully Launching, Managing and Delivering Enterprise Drupal Projects
Susan Rust

Who Should Attend:
Companies and organizations who are thinking about taking on a major Drupal development project and need information on how to get orchestrate, budget and execute a...

Intermediate Drupal Foundations
Client Wrangling™: Accelerating Discovery and Development for Drupal Projects
Susan Rust

Clients talk Greek
Developers talk Geek
And Client Wrangling is the translation key step to accelerate the development process.

Client Wrangling is client-side preparation. Done...

Intermediate