| Title | Description | Topic | Audience | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Sticks: A Designer’s Adventure with Twig and Sculpin |
Designers aren’t often known for their development skills. But for a recent client, I "developed" a site using Sculpin, a static site generator that uses Twig templates, PHP, Markdown files, and from my perspective, a little bit of magic to create the final product. |
Front End | Beginner | aCyborg |
| Front End Performance: Theme suggestions, contrib modules and third-party tools to improve response time |
Is your front-end development slowing site performance? Because statistics suggest it is, let's take a look at theme suggestions, contrib modules and third-party tools to improve response time. |
Front End | Intermediate | NonProfit |
| Fun with Docker and Drupal |
Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. |
Dev Ops | Beginner | mdxp |
| Future-proof your Drupal 7 site |
Drupal 8 is coming! But what decisions can you make now on your current or new Drupal 7 sites to make transitioning to Drupal 8 easier? Dave will cover new features available in Drupal 8, and how you can use those new features now in Drupal 7. |
Beginner, Site Building | Intermediate | Dave Reid |
| Gettin' Twiggy with Drupal |
Deep Dive into the Twig layer in Drupal 8. |
Drupal 8, Front End | Advanced | Forest Mars |
| Git Fundamentals |
This presentation will cover the fundamental core concepts of git in the abstract, and should be useful for people who are new to Git or new to version control at all. |
Beginner | Beginner | peezy |
| Herding the Political Animals: Delivering a successful project in spite of organizational politics |
Internal politics will affect the design and development of any project. Universities, Large corporations, Small corporations, Large businesses, Small Businesses... Eh, who are we kidding? Unless you are working with a single stakeholder, politics are going to be an issue. |
Business, Site Building | Beginner | cecrs, [email protected] |
| High Performance Drupal |
Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, and Nathaniel Catchpole literally "wrote the book" on High Performance Drupal (in fact, that's what it's called). Using the book as a guide, I will sherpa you through all the information out there on Drupal performance. |
Beginner, Dev Ops, Site Building, Other | Beginner | cwells |
| How Changing our Estimation Process Took our Project Endgame from WTF? to FTW! |
We would all love to be all Agile, all time and materials, all the time. But the reality is that many projects are fixed bids. Fixed bids come with one major flaw: it's difficult to accurately estimate a project based on an RFP. |
Business, Other | Intermediate | Ashleigh Thevenet |
| How to RTFM as M->The Entire Internet |
Most of the questions people ask me are something like "how do I get started with Drupal?" There are plenty of resources out there, but at this point that seems to be the problem. |
Beginner | Beginner | froboy |
| Introducing the Drupal 8 Console scaffolding module generator |
Every modern framework nowadays provides a scaffolding tool code generator for speeding up the process of starting a new project and avoid the repetitive tasks. |
Coding | Intermediate | jmolivas |
| Introduction to CiviCRM |
• What is CiviCRM? |
Beginner, Site Building | Beginner | generalredneck |
| Lingotek + Drupal - The Power to Translate is Now Inside Drupal |
Now it's easy to quickly translate your content directly from Drupal using the new Lingotek - Inside for Drupal module. Your users will be able to access translated content, nominate content for translation, and even offer to translate content themselves - all without leaving your site! |
Site Building | Beginner | bullweber |
| Loadtesting and re-visiting common cures for performance issues |
We all know that Varnish is the default answer for performance, but what happens when you have to flush cache? LoadStorm provides a quick and easy way to slam your Drupal site with thousands of instances of cloud generated traffic. |
Dev Ops | Intermediate | akucharski |
| Maps, OpenLayers, and Proximity Search |
There are a variety of mapping options for Drupal 7. In this session we will review some of the more popular modules and demonstrate how to accomplish some fairly common use case scenarios, such as: |
Beginner, Site Building | Beginner | stpaultim |
| Publishing Open Data in Drupal with DKAN |
DKAN is a Drupal distro that creates an Open Data Portal based off of the popular CKAN. |
Business, Site Building | Intermediate | acouch |
| Simplify your DevOps with Acquia Cloud and Dev Desktop |
In this session, we'll talk about using Acquia Cloud's Free Tier for setting up your dev environment. Acquia Cloud Free comes with a development and staging environment. These accounts are easily upgradable to add a production server into the mix as well. |
Beginner, Dev Ops | Beginner | brantwynn |
| Site Audits and Support Horrors: Overcoming the Bad, the Ugly, and the Atrocious when Taking over Sites |
One could say that taking over another shop’s website is every developer’s nightmare. Before committing to development work on a new site, Promet requires that we perform a site audit. |
Other | Intermediate | dobrzyns |
| Small > Big (and other stories) |
As software engineers, it's easy to put on blinders and think about code as just...well, code. Some unique, special snowflake with its own rules, with little to be learned from other systems. |
Coding | Intermediate | sdboyer |
| Social in your site, the Drupal way |
Most websites today require social integration. This usually takes at least two forms: |
Coding, Site Building | Intermediate | kevinchampion |
