Proposed Sessions

introduction to Views

This session is intended to introduce the concept of Views, a powerful tool for automatically collecting and displaying lists of content according to rules you define. We will define key terms and locate them in the interface, look at examples of Views that are pre-installed in a Standard profile Drupal installation, and fiddle with them to observe how different configuration options change their behavior. We will also create an example View from scratch.

Government of Bermuda: How to pitch, plan, and build a citizen-centric web portal with Drupal

Bermuda is a British island territory in the North Atlantic, located off the east coast of the United States, with an economy largely based on international business and tourism.

The Angst of Accessibility

Keeping a 200 site university web site accessible is a monumental task, but one that definitely is worth doing. We don't have all the answers.

So Long and Thanks for All the Requests: Front-end Performance in the Age of HTTP/2

There you are, minding your business, aggregating your CSS and JS while waiting for your morning toast.

Optimizing Drupal for Digital Marketing

This talk is about understanding your customers better, and providing them with a better experience, helping them complete their tasks faster, simplifying everything.

Growth-driven Design for Drupal

Growth-driven Design embodies the philosophy that we need data to inform an optimal site design. But, how do we get that data if we have not launched?

My Own Worst Enemy

Many developers, myself included, often deal with so-called imposter syndrome.

Going Vertical; A Value Driven Approach to Drupal Development

One of the biggest development hurdles we face when new to any agile framework is switching from a ‘phased’ approach to a ‘vertical slice’ approach.

Delivering Great Presentations

Maybe you get nervous when you think about speaking to a group of people.

SaaS! how Drupal as a service can save us all

Drupal is—as always—better and more successful than ever, but Drupal is threatened from two sides.

Volunteer Burnout and Guide to Better Conferences

How healthy is our conference? Is this an arrangement that can last another 10 years? Let's look at how to build a sustainable conference for years to come.

The Developer's Guide to Promoting Their Work

A few years ago, I had an idea to make the web better. It was going to be great, and I had the team to build it. Nine months of late nights and lost weekends later, we launched it!

Becoming a distributed company: how TEN7 went from in-person to completely remote

HOW DRUPAL 8 IS IMPLEMENTED IN TURKEY MARKET

Starship Enterprise vs Millennium Falcon: Drupal 8 for ambitious projects

From the beginning Drupal has enjoyed a special relationship with hobbyists, nonprofits, political activists, education teams, community groups, and even small business.

Large Scale Recurring Imports in Drupal 8: Architecture and Implementation Tips

Nowadays Drupal is not simply a CMS, it's a big and complicated framework that stands behind large enterprise level websites.

Two+ Years of Backdrop CMS

Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with Panels, Views, and Configuration Management added into core.

OOP, Design Patterns and Drupal 8

With the switch to OOP and the inclusion of many parts of the Symfony framework, Drupal 8 has (finally) moved into the modern era of web development best practices. Let's have a look at how some of those best practices are being put to use within Drupal 8.

Twig recipes: Making Drupal 8 render the markup you want

The addition of Twig has revolutionized the way we do theming in Drupal 8. Although very powerful, it is still fairly new to most of us.

Web Components for Everyone!

Web Components are the modules of the front end! Imagine being able to add a modal, date picker or a chart to your site by simply adding an HTML tag.

Layout in Drupal 8

Learn about custom page layout and theming in Drupal 8. Review of popular options including Paragraphs, Panels, Blocks and custom Twig templates.

The Legendary Drupal 8 Media Library Unicorn

This session concentrates on one specific approach to hunting down and taming the mythical unicorn of responsive, fieldable, embeddable, storable media in a Drupal 8 composer-based non-distribution

Continuous Collaboration: Breaking down barriers in Software projects

Drupal & Open Source is rooted in collaboration, but as we’ve grown larger as a community, and as Drupal has been adopted and adapted for more complex use cases and organizations, collaboration

User Onboarding and The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released in March 2017 to widespread critical acclaim.

8 Lessons Clients Teach Us Everyday

Even after 16 years of managing projects, I still learn from clients. Each client is a unique snowflake, amazing and challenging all in one little package…or maybe not.

Every project is a story: Applying storytelling to your client interactions

Humans think in stories. Every story follows a general pattern. Once we learn to see these patterns we can more readily create new stories.

Drupal vs WordPress Panel

Ever wondered what doing something in Drupal looked like in WordPress? Well here is your chance to find out.