Accepted Sessions
| Session | Speaker(s) | Experience level | Track | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automating Themes with Bootstrap and LESS | Kyle Taylor |
It's known that theming in Drupal is not the easiest thing in the world. There’s generally a lot of markup to deal with, hooks for every kind of preprocessing, and Javascript behaviors that can... |
Intermediate | |
| Automating website QA with Quotemine - an open source web crawler | Michael Nolan |
Have you ever faced the daunting task of having to check for broken file links or the presence of sensitive emails and phone numbers on your site? |
Intermediate | |
| Building Kick SaaS Installation Profiles | Nicholas Vahalik |
One of the most power features of Drupal is the capability of using it to build and deploy SaaS-like applications. At the heart of this capability is the tried and true install profile. |
Intermediate | |
| CiviCRM: Open-source software for managing customers, members, donors and more | Kate Shaw |
How do you manage communications with your most important people? Having a good Contact Relationship Management (CRM) system in place can help you keep track of your clients, donors or... |
Beginner | |
| Composing a Drupal 7 Site | Allan Chappell |
With Drupal 8 now out, PHP's standard practice of using composer is working it's way into a Drupal developer's normal life. |
Intermediate | |
| Datalayer: What it is, and why you need it | David Porter |
Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics (GA) are among the most popular (and inexpensive) tag manager and analytics platforms, but integrating them in a clean and clear way can be tricky. |
Beginner | |
| Debugging Techniques for Drupal (and other web applications) | Robert Ristroph |
This talk covers a general approach to debugging Drupal problems, as well as specific tools and tricks. |
Intermediate | |
| Developing APIs with Postman | Robert Ristroph |
More and more Drupal projects involve creating and testing a web API. This talk will cover using the tool Postman, a Chrome plugin ( http://www.getpostman.com/ ) , as an IDE for developing APIs,... |
Intermediate | Development / Site Building |
| DITA on Drupal: Tech Comm's $1 Billion Market is Looking For An Open Source Solution | Mark Hicks |
The TechComm sector (“technical communication”, “help manuals”) is going through a transformation from publishing to PDF to publishing to web, mobile and embedded devices. |
Beginner | Business / Open Source |
| Drupal 8 Kickstart | Peter Sawczynec |
Highlighting key Drupal 8 concepts, this fast-paced session shows what a developer should understand to dive into a Drupal 8 site. |
Intermediate | |
| Drupal 8 Lightning: The distribution for enterprise authoring | Ron Northcutt |
Our mission is to enable developers to create great authoring experiences and empower editorial teams. Using... |
Beginner | Beginner / Intro to Drupal |
| Drupal as a Learning Platform | Mark Hanna |
Online learning systems are a major growth market in the web industry. |
Beginner | |
| Drupal has forked! So now what? | Doug Vann |
In September of 2013 Drupal was forked and BackdropCMS was born. For some this was a huge shock. For others, it was laughable. Where is it today? How does the user experience within BackdropCMS... |
Beginner | Beginner / Intro to Drupal |
| Embracing Open Source to Grow and Transform Your Career and Company | Michael Meyers | The personal and business rationale for contributing to open source projects - why and how you should get engaged in the Drupal Community (and other open source projects). | Beginner | |
| Entities 101 : Understanding Data Structures in Drupal | Ron Northcutt |
In this session, we will be learning about the different data structures in Drupal, how they work, and when to use them... |
Intermediate | Development / Site Building |
| Getting Started with Drupal 8 & Pantheon Workflows | Doug Vann |
Let's build a site together in D8 and use Pantheon to manage our configurations! |
Beginner | DevOps / SysAdmin |
| Hosting Options and Performance Improvements | Peter Petrik |
Learn how to choose from the variety of hosting levels and provider offerings. There are a myriad of options from shared hosting, VPS, managed instances, dedicated servers, and Drupal-specific... |
Intermediate | DevOps / SysAdmin |
| Make your local dev environment match your server, and ditch MAMP/WAMP/XAMPP/(?)AMP for good! | Michael Bybee |
Now titled "Dev/Stage/Prod Parity with Vagrant" |
Intermediate | |
| Migration - How to Tame the Data | Steven Williams |
Migration has become the standard method to upgrade Drupal sites between major versions and external sources. In this session you will learn how to set up a migration and how to overcome common... |
Intermediate | |
| Personalizing Drupal for Better User Experiences | Brent Bice |
Although personalization is not a new concept, marketing savvy organizations are beginning to leverage data and apply new personalization concepts to improve user experiences and increase... |
Beginner | Business / Open Source |
| PURLs: Personalized URLs for micro-targeted messaging | Peter Petrik |
An important marketing strategy to deliver personalized content to potential constituents. |
Intermediate | Development / Site Building |
| Sales & Pricing Strategies | Ben Stoffel-Rosales |
This presentation will cover:
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Beginner | |
| The Value of Developer Tools and Automation in the Cloud Era | Ben Stoffel-Rosales |
Taking your team to the next level of automation and continuous integration takes upfront work. Teams can get lost in the weeds while introducing continuous integration processes to a team. |
Beginner | Business / Open Source |
| Transform your Drupal Site into a Content Marketing Machine | Tom McCracken |
Is traffic, engagement, and conversion vital to your website's success? Then you don’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind workshop. |
Beginner | |
| Using gulp and ES6 in front end development | Andrew Taylor |
ECMAScript 6 was ratified in June 2015 but browser support is still catching up. gulp is a JavaScript task runner that can help automate repetitive... |
Intermediate | |
| What the Drop? Newcomers Field Guide to the World of Drupal. | Bronius Motekaitis |
New to Drupal? When I first met Drupal, I was in awe, bewildered, overjoyed, frustrated, and optimistic. In short, like many Drupalists and Drupalistas, I was in love. ... |
Beginner | |
| What's All the Fuss About Drupal 8 | Fito Kahn |
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Beginner | Beginner / Intro to Drupal |
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