Proposed Sessions

Proposed Sessions
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Creating Workflow with Revisioning and Email Notification
Nancy Flowers-Mangs

Workflow and Drupal can be a challenging combination. But with the right modules and configuration, you can create a seemless approval process that creates revisions and notifies the various...

Intermediate
Site Building
You have a new drupal site and are the drupal admin, what now?
Alfred Nutile

For those who are now in charge of their new drupal site.
I will cover three general areas Admin, Content, and Users.
Not from a geek angle but from the perspective of someone who just...

Beginner
Site Building
The ING Drupal Journey
Matthew Wetmore, Jim Skowyra

ING Financial Services (http://ing.us) has been using Drupal for the past year and has launched a number of other micro sites to support its...

Beginner
Site Building
Deploy Module
Matthew Wetmore

The migration of content between Drupal installation has always been a pain point. The Deploy Module solves this problem by allowing you to migrate content to other Drupal installations.

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Intermediate
Code/Development
Views – Beyond the Basics
Jim Skowyra

Based on Drupal 6, this session will look at capabilties built into core Views, added functionality provided by some popular plug-ins, and theming. The focus will be on theming support offered by...

Intermediate
Site Building
Ontologies with Drupal; Adding Smarts to Websites
John Bottoms, Nancy Cook Smith

We can make dumb computers smarter by using an ontology. An ontology describes the problem space and the modules that can be used in finding a solution. A new user module is discussed that assists...

Intermediate
Site Building
Building a Great Local Dev Environment
Charles Novick

You will learn how to download and configure the best open source offerings and configure them to create a full featured Drupal development environment. After following the instructions in this...

Intermediate
Code/Development
Code for Contrib: When There's Not a Module for That: Module Development for Site Builders and Themers
Benjamin Melançon

Drupal is a powerful and modular system— indeed, much of Drupal's power is in its modules, dynamos of pluggable functionality that can build on Drupal's base system and other modules. This session...

Intermediate
Code/Development
Server Configuration Management with Vagrant & Puppet
Sam Kottler, Steven Merrill

This session will be an introduction to Puppet and the world of configuration management. Puppet is an open source tool that allows developers and system administrators to test and management...

Advanced
Code/Development
HTML 5 and CSS3
Victor Velt

Learn what's new with HTML5 and CSS3. This is an introductory talk that will help you become acquainted with HTML5 and add some cool elements to your website, including Mobile, audio and video....

Beginner
Design/Theming
Outside the Garden: Intro to RaphaëlJS
Patrick Macom
RaphaëlJS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for drawing and animating with SVG and VML. If you've ever wanted to include simple animations or image effects on the web without Flash, you should...
Advanced
Site Building
Coat Your Website with Varnish
Steven Merrill

Varnish is a reverse proxy cache that can significantly speed up your Drupal website. In this talk, we'll dive deep into the theory of how to use Varnish and also go through a hands-on...

Advanced
Code/Development
Panels and Contexts and Blocks -- Oh My!
Anneliese Fox

So you're creating a content-rich, data-driven site and want a super user experience to boot. You know you need views (who doesn't?) but how are you going to present that information to your...

Intermediate
Site Building
Drupal PHP for Designers, or "Using PHP without Panicking"
Marissa Martinez

This is a basic introductory course to understanding how Drupal template files work in Drupal themes and some of the basics of PHP you'll need to make theme modifications, especially for extending...

Beginner
Design/Theming
View Arguments, Relationships, and Node References
Frank Lakatos

We all love how Views has made querying your site's content trivial, but its true power comes from levering arguments and relationships to build dynamic content.

In this session, we will...

Intermediate
Site Building
Theming and content basics
Matt Tarsi
This presentation will cover theme basics including:
  • Anatomy of a Drupal Theme
  • How are my Pages Being Built? (template structure)
  • PHP Required?
  • Create a basic...
Beginner
Design/Theming
Why Isn't The Module You Need Ready?
Benjamin Melançon

Sustained Joy: Contributing to the Community as Part of your Work

SESSION TAKE-AWAYS:

  1. If you use the code without engaging in the community you are...
Intermediate
Site Building
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Intermediate
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Intermediate
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Intermediate
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