DrupalCon Sessions

Session	Experience level	Event Type
Caching without fear Click to watch "Caching without fear" Caching is a typical performance boosting strategy but as Phil Karlton said, “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation,... Steven Merrill, tekante	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Dominate The Theme Layer Click to watch "Dominate The Theme Layer" Looking for nitty-gritty code? I created a toolbox with 500+ lines of documented code, that goes with the session.Tools are available at Github.com:... woeldiche	Intermediate	Frontend
Drupal Strategies for Nonprofits Click to watch "Drupal Strategies for Nonprofits" Nonprofit adoption of Drupal is now standard. But too many nonprofit organizations are reinventing the wheel in Drupal. We’ll talk about some... sreynen, Lydia2pin	Beginner	Business and Strategy
New Developments In MySQL Click to watch "New Developments In MySQL" Recently, focus in the Drupal Community has been on replacements and/or additions to MySQL, such as Redis, MongoDB and Cassandra. While focus has been... nnewton	Advanced	DevOps
LSD: Getting the Most Out of Your Investment in Drupal No software solution (proprietary or commercial) will ever meet 100% of the current, let alone future, needs of it's largest users; in addition to customizing the look and feel to reflect their... michaelemeyers	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Designing and Implementing Beautiful, Flexible Interfaces Click to watch "Designing and Implementing Beautiful, Flexible Interfaces" Design is hard. Implementing a design can be even harder. But fear not! With a good handle on how to use Photoshop and a... kenwoodworth	Intermediate	Frontend
Deploy with Capistrano Click to watch "Deploy with Capistrano" Prepare to be dazzled with how easily you save yourself time, money and unicorns by using a deployment tool like Capistrano. No longer shall you battle... pingers	Intermediate	DevOps
The Science of Guessing - Drupal estimation techniques from project managers Click to watch "The Science of Guessing - Drupal estimation techniques from project managers" What usually happens before you get started planning, designing, writing and coding is estimation.... svettes, solipsist, acke	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Real Data: Why your intuition isn't trustworthy Click to watch "Real Data. Why your intuition isn't trustworthy" On typical site performance audits, I'm usually given a summary of the problems from the developers of the site. About 80% of the... msonnabaum	Advanced	DevOps
Multi-headed Drupal Click to watch "Multi-headed Drupal" One of the strengths of Drupal is that it's not just a tool for building a single website. It can be used equally well for managing multiple companion sites... Crell	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Death, Taxes & 'Viewport Chrome': How to Design for Uncertainty Click to watch "Death, Taxes and 'Viewport Chrome' How to Design for Uncertainty" Some things in life are certain: death, taxes, and – if you’re a web professional – the inability to know the... jpamental	Intermediate	Frontend
High performance theming Click to watch "High performance theming" As rich HTML5 apps become the norm and mobile context becomes dominant over desktop, the importance of frontend performance is exploding. We’ve all... rupl	Intermediate	Frontend
Building a great Drupal team in the face of talent starvation; what would Maslow do? Click to watch "Building a great Drupal team in the face of talent starvation, what would Maslow do?" You're building a Drupal team, but you're struggling to find talent. What are your options... kay_v, jesse.d	Beginner	Business and Strategy
4x High Performance for Drupal - Step by Step Click to watch "4x High Performance for Drupal - Step by Step" Drupal Performance can be divided broadly into 4 Categories: * Server * Client * Modules * Database This session will show... Fabianx	Beginner	DevOps
Environment America: Running 60 affiliates on Drupal Click to watch "Environment America. Running 60 affiliates on Drupal" This case study will discuss the business needs of EnvironmentAmerica.org, a nationwide advocacy organization with presence... agentrickard	Beginner	Business and Strategy
The Design of Everyday Things Click to watch "The Design of Everyday Things" Things often don't work in accordance with users' expectations. There is often a mismatch between how we make things for people and how people... Imre Gmelig Meijling	Beginner	Frontend
Introducing Symfony2 Click to watch "Introducing Symfony2" During his last keynote in Denver, Dries made it clear that Symfony2 is going to play an extremely important role in the making of the upcoming version(s) of... omissis	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Using Drupal to Build an Application, Not a Website My average monday typically begins with the following statement from this week's client: "Our management wants us to use Drupal, but we typically build applications, not websites. Drupal is a... netw3rker	Beginner	Sitebuilding
There must be Rules! Click to watch "There must be Rules!" Rules is a powerful module that can ease your life as site builder drastically. The module allows you to define conditionally executed actions based on... fago, ikos	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Alfresco: Drupal’s Document Management Solution Click to watch "Alfresco. Drupal’s Document Management Solution" Drupal is an outstanding web development framework that allows you to build pretty much any kind of website you can think of.... jmacinne	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Migrating to Drupal: Who? What? Why? and How? Click to watch "Migrating to Drupal. Who? What? Why? and How?" Two industry veterans, one a project manager and one a development manager, will show you through how to plan your successful move... agentrickard, Nicole Lind	Beginner	Business and Strategy
The Drush Ecosystem Click to watch "The Drush Ecosystem" Learn about all the cool projects which ship with Drush commands, or build upon core Drush. For example: Devel Generate quickly populates a site with... moshe weitzman, msonnabaum, jhedstrom	Intermediate	DevOps
A designer-friendly theme system in Drupal 8? Click to watch "A designer-friendly theme system in Drupal 8?" This session has been moved to Tuesday, August 21 from 17:00-18:00 in the (Sheraton) Asam room. In Drupal 6, printing variables... effulgentsia, JohnAlbin, jenlampton	Beginner	Frontend
UX Under Fire - On Communicating the Value of UX Click to watch "UX Under Fire - On Communicating the Value of UX" As a UX professional you've probably found yourself forced to argue for the importance of UX in a project. You've probably heard... solipsist	Beginner	Frontend
Building for the editor experience Click to watch "Building for the editor experience" The editor experience is somehow a blind spot in a lot of projects. For most websites a lot of efforts go into building a good user... pixelmord	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Use datacenter tools to make your dev life easier Click to watch "Use datacenter tools to make your dev life easier" Maintaining a big IT infrastructure can only be done efficiently with automation tools. For our DrupalCONCEPT hosting, we run a... freistil	Intermediate	DevOps
Bonuses for your mobile Drupal website Click to watch "Bonuses for your mobile Drupal website" Do you often think about making your mobile Drupal website friendly for smartphones? Or has you already started to build a Drupal mobile... dealancer, Fabianx	Beginner	Frontend
Simple devops workflows with Kanban Click to watch "Simple devops workflows with Kanban" Efficient teamwork in Drupal projects can be a challenge even with modern tools like Git, Redmine and so on. We also need the right processes to... freistil	Beginner	DevOps
Debugging Techniques for Drupal 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, client side debugging such as Firebug and... rgristroph	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Agile Gymnastics and Timebox Tumbling - A Hybrid Approach Click to watch "Agile Gymnastics and Timebox Tumbling - A Hybrid Approach" Learn from the experiences of Examiner.com's team. We've done it all - cowboy, waterfall, extreme, and agile scrum.... MatthewS	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Backbone.js in the Frontend Click to watch "Backbone.js in the Frontend" This session introduces the most popular JavaScript MVC framework, Backbone.js, from a practical point of view. Backbone.js is a minimalist... corbacho, ethanw	Advanced	Coding and Development
Welcome! Get your Drupal(Con) on! Drupal(Con) veterans Robert and jam want to help you drink your Drupal Kool-Aid and get the most out of your time at the Con. We’ll help veterans and n00bs alike find their bearings, get... horncologne, robertDouglass	Beginner	Community
Different Ways to control your layout Click to watch "Different Ways to control your layout" There are several options in selecting your page layout in Drupal. There are many advantages and disadvantages to each of the methods.... EclipseGc, swentel, indytechcook, tekante, populist, febbraro	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Preserving History for Future Generations: The King Center Click to watch "Preserving History for Future Generations. The King Center" There are few figures who have had as great an impact on the history of the last century as civil rights leader and... gdemet	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Plan and run a Drupal Camp while having fun, empowering others, sharing knowledge, and getting enough sleep* Click to watch "Plan and run a Drupal Camp while having fun, empowering others, sharing knowledge, and getting enough sleep" *YMMV may vary on the sleep part. Drupal Community events are one... horncologne, segments, Scandimelia	Beginner	Community
The strategy behind designing for a CMS Click to watch "The strategy behind designing for a CMS" I used to say: "There isn't a hard-to-theme design, only a lazy or bad themer". But after over 6 years working as designer, themer and now... mogdesign	Intermediate	Frontend
Introduction to Drupal: What I Wish Someone Told Me in the Beginning Click to watch "Introduction to Drupal. What I Wish Someone Told Me in the Beginning" It has been said that Drupal has a learning cliff. Yes, it is true that building a site with Drupal isn’t... eojthebrave	Beginner	Sitebuilding
To Beer Or Not To Beer? Making meetups work. Click to watch "To Beer Or Not To Beer? Making meetups work." “Come for the software, stay for the Community”. The Drupal Community as a whole is compiled of many smaller, local communities. If... techgirlgeek, BrockBoland, add1sun, pdjohnson	Beginner	Community
Next Steps for Drupal Commerce Click to watch "Next Steps for Drupal Commerce" Drupal Commerce is an open source eCommerce framework developed to help you create unique online shopping experiences. Its core modules provide the... rszrama	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
The project application review process Click to watch "The project application review process" Before users are allowed to publish their Drupal modules or themes as full projects on drupal.org they have to go through a one time... klausi, patrickd	Beginner	Community
Multi Region failover scenarios in the Cloud Click to watch "Multilingual Content in Drupal 7... ricardoamaro	Intermediate	DevOps
There Might (Not) Be A Module For That Click to watch "There Might (Not) Be A Module For That" One of the first steps in a new Drupal project is to walk through the wireframes and functional requirements of the new site to try to... KarenS	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Dealing with Buggy Modules or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Issue Queue Click to watch "Dealing with Buggy Modules or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Issue Queue" Drupal is a tough system to start working with. Even if you read the large documentation at... juampy, tim.plunkett	Beginner	Community
The Drupal Ladder: Resources and activities for meetups to help members learn and contribute Click to watch "The Drupal Ladder. Resources and activities for meetups to help members learn and contribute" As Drupal’s popularity sky-rockets, so does the volume of issues and sense of urgency... bryanhirsch	Beginner	Community
Developers, Get Off the Couch and Contribute! Click to watch "Developers, Get Off the Couch and Contribute" “Our current percentage of active users who actually contribute to core is hovering around 0.1%. Target: a full 1% in 2014” To... frubim	Intermediate	Community
Evaluating Base Themes Click to watch "Evaluating Base Themes" One of these themes is not like the other: Mothership, Zen, Omega, Bartik, Fusion. Since writing my first book, Front End Drupal, Drupal base themes have... emmajane	Intermediate	Frontend
Think like a hacker: Secure Drupal Code Click to watch "Think like a hacker. Secure Drupal Code" Drupal is a powerful tool, but for many reasons sites are released with security vulnerabilties. In this technical session Drupal Security... coltrane, greggles	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Selling Drupal & Web Experience Management to Large Enterprises: Choose Your Battles and Choose them Wisely Click to watch "Selling Drupal... frubim	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Bootstrapping Solr search clusters and maintaining them Click to watch "Bootstrapping Solr search clusters and maintaining them" At Acquia we have the Acquia Search service. This service allows people to connect with Apache Solr (A search application... Nick_vh, pwolanin	Advanced	DevOps
Redefining : The Mind Shift at Microsoft on OSS and Community Click to watch "Redefining. The Mind Shift at Microsoft on OSS and Community" This session is a case study of open source's disruptive nature and how it changed business models of large... granola	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Building amazing searches with Search API and Facet API Click to watch "Building amazing searches with Search API and Facet API" In this session we will guide you step by step through setting up powerful search solutions on your site, by combining the... drunken monkey, ygerasimov	Beginner	Sitebuilding
Painting The Bikeshed: Lessons From A Drupal 8 Initiative Owner In March of 2011 I was named as the first initiative owner for Drupal 8. I was excited and proud and itching to get going, but I felt one emotion more than any other - paralyzing fear. The Drupal... heyrocker	Beginner	Community
Turning every log entry into gold: centralized logging with Drupal Logs are an essential part of debugging operational issues, improving user experience, and securing our Drupal sites, yet they are often overlooked. In this session I will review a number of tools... skottler	Beginner	DevOps
The State of Drupal Community Education Click to watch "The State of Drupal Community Education" There are so many community projects around education that it is overwhelming to figure out what is going on, much less actually help out... add1sun	Beginner	Community
Aegir-based Business Models Aegir is the only fully free and open source distributed provisioning system for Drupal. It allows you to manage anywhere from a few sites for a single organization, to thousands of sites across as... ergonlogic, alberto56	Intermediate	Business and Strategy
Fearless development with Drush, Vagrant and Aegir You've probably heard of Vagrant by now. It's the command-line tool that allows you to "create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments." So why is developing... ergonlogic	Intermediate	DevOps
Infiltration Day 853: Drupal Association Board. Confessions of a not-so-secret double agent Click to watch "Infiltration Day 853.Drupal Association Board. Confessions of a not-so-secret double agent" The Drupal Association has been through some major changes in its governance and... kattekrab	Intermediate	Community
Configuration Management in Drupal 7 Click to watch "Configuration Management in Drupal 7" Configuration management is a big initiative for Drupal 8 but what can you do now in Drupal 7? We will talk about the current state of... dragonwize	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Accessibility of Custom User Interface Components using WAI-ARIA Click to watch "Accessibility of Custom User Interface Components using WAI-ARIA" Web markup languages provide toolboxes of user interface components to be used to enable the development of web... Everett Zufelt	Advanced	Coding and Development
Bringing your ideas to fruition in Drupal core Click to watch "Bringing your ideas to fruition in Drupal core" Have you ever tried to submit a core improvement suggestion? Two common experiences I have seen is that your issue is ignored or... Gábor Hojtsy	Beginner	Community
Negotiating Open Source Click to watch "Negotiating Open Source" As the market for Drupal goes beyond open source enthusiasts, it’s increasingly being adopted by companies and organizations unfamiliar or even... farriss	Beginner	Business and Strategy
Joomla! - Hippies, Pirates, Revolutionaries or a Distributed Community As a co-founder of Joomla! and Open Source Matters (the non-profit arm) Brian travels the world "Spreading the Joomla Love". Joomla began not in a European bedroom but as an abandoned product of... Brian Teeman	Intermediate	Community
PHP Core, get rid of bugs and contribute! Click to watch "PHP Core, get rid of bugs and contribute!" Drupal is inextricably linked to PHP. But how many Drupal developers actually know what's going on under the hood? Knowing how PHP... Pierre Joye	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Decoupling Content Management Click to watch "Decoupling Content Management" The current breed of Content Management Systems is largely monolithic: if you're choosing a system based on its user experience, this will mandate... henribergius	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Creating Wonder: Redesigning CERN Click to watch "Creating Wonder. Redesigning CERN" CERN. The birthplace of the web; the home of the Large Hadron Collider; and home to thousands of high-energy physicists, IT professionals and... markboulton	Intermediate	Frontend
Theme <3 Drupal - A love letter from a warrior a long way from home My dearest Drupal, I write to you now from the frontline of our existence. The battle has been long and hard - many of my comrades have been... mortendk	Intermediate	Frontend
What's this devops thing anyhow? Click to watch "What's this devops thing anyhow?" "We've come a long way since introducing new ideas in server automation and deployment, and also in creating a culture of collaboration between... KrisBuytaert	Beginner	DevOps
Achieving Continuous Integration with Drupal Click to watch "Achieving Continuous Integration with Drupal" Continuous Integration (CI) is a method of software development focused on small pieces of work, integrated frequently, tested... bjaspan	Intermediate	DevOps
Drupal 8: What you need to know Click to watch "Drupal 8. What you need to know" Since March 2011, the community has been hard at work on Drupal 8, which is currently undergoing active development. This revolutionary new... webchick	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Building interconnected sites with HTML5's microdata Click to watch "Building interconnected sites with HTML5's microdata" We're moving to a new level of interconnectivity between Web pages. New Web development techniques are being pushed forward... linclark	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Multilingual Content in Drupal 7 & 8 Click to watch "Multilingual Content in Drupal 7... pixelite	Intermediate	Sitebuilding
Best Practices WYSIWYG with inline image handling I’d like to share with you a best-practice approach for setting up a secure, usable WYSIWYG editor in Drupal 7. I'll walk through all the necessary steps, and explain each layer of the Drupal content... jenlampton	Beginner	Sitebuilding
Drupal 8 Click to watch "Drupal 8" Please note there are no slides with this presentation, the recording is audio only. Dries Buytaert (Drupal founder and Project Lead) will talk about the state of... Dries	Advanced	Core Conversations
Introduction to MongoDB Click to watch "Introduction to MongoDB" This talk introduces MongoDB and provides an introduction of how to get the most out of MongoDB. One of the challenges that comes with moving to... derickr	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services Click to watch "Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services" A lot of Web Services today claim to be RESTful APIs. But are they really? Do the URLs accurately identify resources? Are the... dzuelke	Beginner	Coding and Development
Drupal Community in China & Pakistan Although there's a session in Drupalcon Denver mentioned China, we still haven't got enough informations about the communities outside America and Europe. This time, we will have deeper insights... shenzhuxi, Kubair@ikonami.com	Beginner	Community
Functional PHP Click to watch "Functional PHP" Functional programming. Some see that term and think "functions? You mean procedural programming. I've been doing that for years." Others see it and think "you... Crell	Intermediate	Coding and Development
Building real-time systems on top of Drupal with Node.js Click to watch "Building real-time systems on top of Drupal with Node.js" The creator of the Drupal package for Node.js goes over how to leverage the strengths of Node.js to compensate for some... mikl	Advanced	Coding and Development
Selling to the Enterprise Click to watch "Selling to the Enterprise" Large companies have large sales proceses, and selling to these organizations is not a trivial matter. This session introduces you to all of the... robertDouglass, jim.shaw	Advanced	Business and Strategy
Responsive Design with Sass+Compass Click to watch "Responsive Design with Sass+Compass" Mobile matters. There are more than 4x the number mobile devices activated each day than there babies born and the question of how to... Snugug	Intermediate	Frontend

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