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Decision Maker

A sprint in the life of a highly agile Drupal development organization.

Jacob Singh 16 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Get inside the process behind the building of Drupal Gardens. Acquia's engineering team have been building DrupalGardens at a fast pace for the past year and now that we are heading into open beta we decided it was time to open up and share what has worked well with the community. Chris Brookins (VP Engineering), Linea Rowe (Director Product Management) and Jacob Singh (Principal Engineer) will take you through a 21-day sprint in the life of the Drupal Gardens team.

Acquia's engineering team have been building DrupalGardens at a fast pace for the past year and now that we are heading into open beta we decided it was time to open up and share what has worked well with the community. Chris Brookins (VP Engineering), Linea Rowe (Director Product Management) and Jacob Singh (Principal Engineer) will take you through a 21-day sprint in the life of the Drupal Gardens team.

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  • Engineering managers trying to inspire their teams to greatness while watching the bottom line.
    • Additional Presenters:  Chris Brookins

    Drupal speed dating: I'll show you my module if you show me yours

    Jacob Singh 16 June 2010
    Type:  Not planned session

    Take a break from the talking heads, make new friends and business connections in a fun and energetic session. A great way to get introduced to the community and kick off an awesome conference.

    If you're looking for love, you looking in all the wrong places. If you're looking for a good geeky time, expanding your Drupal knowledge and making drinking buddies (business partners) you are absolutely in the right place.

    We'll be doing rotating pairs, speed dating style with some other surprises thrown in.
    Expect to:

    • Relax
    • Make friends
    • Learn something

    Antti Kettunen

    16 June 2010
    Antti Kettunen
    Local team/staff
    Personal information
    Yrityshuoltamo
    Finland
    Language (Primary) Finnish
    Language (Secondary) English
    Social information
    repolainen
    125378
    http://www.yrityshuoltamo.fi
    anttikettunen

    Finnish Entrepreneur with enthusiasm to build it better with Drupal. Starting up a Drupal Commando-unit to strike with skill and cunning where ever good sites are needed.

    Bart Van Thillo

    16 June 2010
    bart@wieni.be
    Local team/staff
    Personal information
    Wieni
    Belgium
    Language (Primary) Dutch
    Language (Secondary) English
    Social information
    spoit
    54547
    http://www.wieni.be
    facebook
    spoit
    Linked In

    http://www.linkedin.com/in/spoit

    Jesper Hjertstedt

    15 June 2010
    Jesper Hjertstedt
    Local team/staff
    Personal information
    Awave AB
    Sweden
    Language (Primary) Swedish
    Language (Secondary) Swedish
    Social information
    klorin
    150220
    http://www.awave.se
    jesperhj

    A Kent approach to Drupal Awesomeness

    Simon Yeldon 15 June 2010
    Type:  Not planned session

    The University of Kent has been experimenting with novel ways of removing the affliction of data duplication throughout our web and print publications using Drupal.

    We have constructed a series of content factories to create and manage our output in sensible chunks.

    This talk aims to show you the answers we came up with in migrating our core website (systems) over to Drupal, and the hurdles we have had to overcome.

    We will take you on a magical journey through code and print using Drupal as our vessel of discovery. Ok, maybe not, but we have been busy working with Drupal to decouple our data from where and how it is presented.

    The University of Kent has a history of using Dreamweaver as our main publishing platform for web. We used it for publishing news, the online prospectus, events, pretty much everything. This led us to a situation where we found ourselves with 200,000 pages of content, much of which being duplicated and leading our web editor to the verge of breakdown.

    Additional Presenters:  Mark Fendley Matthew Bull

    Pier Paolo Bortone

    15 June 2010
    Pier Paolo
    Local team/staff
    Personal information
    MATRIX SPA
    Italy
    Language (Primary) Italian
    Language (Secondary) English
    Social information
    pierpaolo.bortone
    614204
    facebook
    paulvertigo

    Building Scalable, High Performance Drupal Sites in the Cloud

    Barry Jaspan 15 June 2010
    Type:  Session in official program

    Cloud computing offers many advantages for hosting Drupal sites but also presents several unique challenges. This talk will provide an overview of how Acquia has built Acquia Hosting and the Drupal-as-a-Service platform Drupal Gardens on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    Cloud computing offers many advantages for hosting Drupal sites but also presents several unique challenges. This talk will provide an overview of how Acquia has built Acquia Hosting and the Drupal-as-a-Service platform Drupal Gardens. As part of this, we'll discuss specific issues we've encountered while building on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the solutions we developed to address them. Topics will include:

    • Load balancing: Elastic IP vs. Elastic Load Balancing
    • Handling user-uploaded files with multiple web nodes

    Scaling your Drupal Application, Data and Business with Microsoft Windows Azure

    VIJAY RAJAGOPALAN 14 June 2010
    Type:  Not planned session

    Run Mission critical drupal Application on Microsoft's new cloud computing Platform Windows Azure.
    Come learn about Microsoft’s new investments in PHP interoperability, and how this benefits the Drupal community. You can grow your Drupal app onto Azure - Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform

    There are multiple ways to scale your Drupal application and business with cloud computing. The first is being able to horizontally scaling your computing power. The second is being able to leverage the scale that you can get with cloud based data services and content delivery networks (CDN). Imagine taking advantage of all of that on a platform that can place your application in front of hundreds of thousands of potential new customers…

    Tiffany Farriss

    14 June 2010
    Tiffany Farriss
    Local team/staff
    Personal information
    Palantir.net
    United States
    Language (Primary) English
    Social information
    farriss
    118406
    http://www.palantir.net
    farriss
    Linked In
    farriss

    Tiffany is the President a strategist at Palantir.net. Tiffany specializes in providing project leadership and strategy through consultation, project planning and training for Palantir. She has over 13 years of Internet consulting and development experience and extensive experience providing information architecture and usability consulting for a wide variety of clients. Tiffany has a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she focused on mathematical modeling and human computer interaction, and is a member of the Drupal Association board.