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Advanced site building for not so advanced site builders
by: Henrijs Šešo
What if you have big ideas about design and functionality, but you don't know how to write PHP properly and Drupal gives you lemons all the time? Is there a way to build advanced stuff without being advanced? Yes, I will teach you everything you need to get you going and excited - tools, tricks and examples.
This session we will scratch the surface of amazing Chaos tool suite (ctools). We will learn how to bend the spoon only with power of will to use Ctools, Panels and Views. We will visit some remote corners of this ecosystem and discover small awesome things that will help you create anything you can imagine. With ease. I will also be performing magic trick at the end of session called "Module that wrote itself".
Drupal ingredients and recipes
by: Janez Urevc
A gentle, yet comprehensive, introduction to most popular modular building blocks of Drupal (with examples).
The goal of this session is:
-Introduce most popular features, modules and their basic use cases (content types, fields, views, display modes, image styles, panels etc.)
-Talk about general concepts and misconceptions of Drupal development like "Don't hack core" etc.
Consider this your introduction to world of Drupal. And lessons I've learned so far.
To Drupal 7 and Beyond
by:Kristjan Jansen
I will talk about three things:
First: Status of Drupal 7. Is it finally ready? What about contributed modules?
Second: Practical tips and caveats on upgrading to D7, based on real life examples.
Third: Drupal 8, what to expect?
Finding your place in the Drupal Community
"Come for the software, stay for the community"
by: Adam Hill
Drupal is awesome, I’m quite sure we’ll all agree on that. But one of the things that makes it that bit extra-awesome compared to the hundreds of competitive CMS systems out there is the friendly, talented, dedicated and hard-working community that has built around it. Drupal now has over 500,000 people registered on their website. There are 11,000 contributing developers and 1,200 themers registered on drupal.org. Drupal 7 launch parties took place in 96 different countries and there are camps and meet-ups happening daily across the world. This talk will take a look at how we can all find our place in this thriving and exponentially increasing community whether we're a developer, designer, themer, marketeer or business owner.
Joomla! vs Drupal
by: Normunds Puzo
This will be a story about why and how I came to Drupal and it will tell what is diference between the Joomla! And the Drupal CMS platforms in various aspects such as: Popularity, Architecture, Development, Extendebility, Content administration and some other...
Agile collaboration best practices – a Drupal love story
by: Joonas Kiminki
Drupal is an excellent tool for building websites fast, successfully and cost efficiently. However, the traditional waterfall development model where you define all features in advance and start developing after all the specifications are made fails to leverage the advantages of the product. In this session we will go through some of the best practices found when implementing sites in a close three-way collaboration between the business owner, a visual designer and the Drupal experts that make the magic actually happen. The session will be a non-technical walkthough using a real world online newspaper case as the component to take us from theory to practice. The target audience is very broad – from webshop owners, project managers and freelancers to organizations using third party companies to develop their websites.
Using Drupal 7 entities
by: Tomi Mikola
Drupal 7 introduced concept of entities to be used for defining your own data sturctures. This session explains the high level differencies between nodes and entities as well demonstrates how you can benefit using entities in your next Drupal implementations
How to build a mobile website with Drupal?
by: Stéphane VIAL
A modern website cannot exist anymore nowadays without a powerful mobile version compatible with various types of smartphones and mobile platforms. I will give guidelines about general web mobile design process and problems (content strategy, touch-screen issues…). I will present some special features of mobile devices that must be considered (screen sizes, viewport…). I will explain the main different possible approaches for Drupal mobile website building (dedicated modules, Responsive Web Design and CSS3 media queries, Cloud services...) and I will show some cases studies, especially LEKTUM official mobile website (which will be available for the beginning of October).
Media derivatives: take control over your files
by: Janez Urevc
Derivatives API tries to implement a simple, robust, flexible and powerfull framework for media derivation work flows. It allows you to take source file, that was uploaded by user, and create any derivative of it. Derivative can live on the same machine or on a some remote place. Derivative can be a file of the same type as it's source or not.
I will present core API during this session, explain some use cases that can be solved using it and explain how to start developing plugins that would use Derivatives API to implement a feature you need on your site.
by: Rūdolfs Mazurs BoF session "Localization and Drupal"
