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Luke Bochsler

23 June 2010
Luke Bochsler
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Cando Image GmbH
Switzerland
Language (Primary) German
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738898
http://www.cando-image.com

Highlighting trending content on your site

Joonas Kiminki 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Displaying trending content is important to any site. Luckily for Drupal, we have the perfect tool – the Radioactivity module. In this session we will walk through the most common and even the more innovative use cases for the tool. By the end of this session, you will ace all the various settings and scenarios.

Resources:  Radioactivity introduction on mearra.com Radioactivity project page on drupal.org

Drupal Core - Object-Oriented?

Irakli Nadareishvili 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal has been frequently criticized for its "non-OO architecture". While Drupal's architecture is very powerful, elegantly unique and uses many object-oriented design principles on a higher level, it is true that modules are not objects and most of the code is a collection of linear functions. Historically heavy object-oriented design has been avoided for the sake of compatibility with PHP 4.x Now that Drupal only supports PHP 5 it's probably worth to think about more OO implementation.

What would Drupal look like if we yielded to the pressure and created purely object-oriented Drupal Core?

Drupal has been frequently criticized for its "non-OO architecture". While Drupal's architecture is very powerful, elegantly unique and uses many object-oriented design principles on a higher level, it is true that modules are not objects and most of the code is a procedural collection of simple functions. Historically heavy object-oriented design has been avoided for the sake of compatibility with PHP 4.x Now that Drupal only supports PHP 5 it's probably worth to think about more OO implementation.

Additional Presenters:  Ioseb Dzmanashvili

David Strauss

22 June 2010
David Strauss
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Four Kitchens
United States
Language (Primary) English
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93254
http://fourkitchens.com/
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Chris Brookins

22 June 2010
Chris Brookins
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Acquia
United States
Language (Primary) English
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cbrookins
294986
http://drupalgardens.com
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Chris is VP engineering at Acquia where he manages engineering and product management for Acquia's product lines including Drupal Gardens, Acquia Hosting, Acquia Drupal, the Acquia Network, Acquia Search and the Acquia Drupal Stack Installers. Chris joined Acquia from Vertical Communications, where he managed engineering for several IP PBX and call center products, and lead a large adoption of Scrum. Prior to Vertical, Chris managed engineering at Stylus Innovation, a telephony toolkit startup that was sold to Artisoft.

The State of Drupal As a Web Application & Product Platform

Irakli Nadareishvili 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

While Drupal is usually thought of in terms of CMS for web sites, many companies and Drupal shops are starting to use the framework to build web applications/products. This panel will look at some of the products being built on Drupal and will discuss the potential of the business model, from the perspective of Drupal Shops looking to expand beyond a strictly service based business as well as from the vantage point of businesses who are looking for a platform to build their products with.

While Drupal is usually thought of in terms of CMS for web sites, many companies and Drupal shops are starting to use the framework to build web applications/products. This panel will look at some of the products being built on Drupal and will discuss the potential of the business model, from the perspective of Drupal Shops looking to expand beyond a strictly service based business as well as from the vantage point of businesses who are looking for a platform to build their products with.

A panel representing leading Drupal-based products, will discuss topics that include:

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Additional Presenters:  Chris Brookins David Strauss Eric Gundersen

Maarten De Block

22 June 2010
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maartendeblock.be
Belgium
Language (Primary) Dutch
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maartendeblock
358753
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Business students challenging the web with Drupal

Mixel Kiemen 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Business students have use Drupal as mashup machine and integrate other APIs. They create a pool of prototype that lead to interesting discussion: can we build a Drupal labs initiative?

During this presentation the concrete projects get elaborated to see how the prototype leads to an interesting medium for researching strategic innovation management. From this experience we suggest a collaboration between academic business education and the Drupal business-ecosystem to work out a Drupal labs initiative.

Getting visibility on the Drupal Business ecosystem

Mixel Kiemen 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal is growing up and it is getting more Business oriented, but what exactly is the Drupal Business ecosystem, can we get some visibility?

For my research on strategic innovation management I've noticed how much literature exist about OS, but how little is yet know about Drupal. I'm interested in getting more understanding of the Business ecosystem and by doing so we may actually provide some service to that ecosystem.

For example, for modules there are "projects", that helps developers to collaborate. Why don't we have tools for

Thomas Johansen

22 June 2010
Thomas Johansen
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Unitmakers
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
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umtj
http://unitmakers.dk