Themer

Are you still not using Drupal to manage your projects? Since July 2009 excuses are running thin. And if Open Atrium didn’t do everything you ever expected from your project management system, it’s about time that we join forces and build our own dog food.

In this session I’ll present a review of Drupal built tools for project management. You'll get an introduction to Open Atrium and the tools we developed for Knowledge and Project management in Open Atrium.

In this session we have a look how you can compose newsletters and theme them in Drupal using the simplenews modules (see my handbook page http://drupal.org/node/268404 which will be rewritten for Drupal 6).

• simplenews module and submodules
• composing template files
• newsletter backend and frontend
• testing in web and desktop based email clients
• getting css inline with template files or emogrifier

We also have a short look for some of the main alternatives: civimail and campaignmonitor.

Learn from members of the Drupal security team about common vulnerabilities in module and theme code, how to spot them, and how to write secure code yourself.

A conceptual framework for handling user input safely, as well as the security aspects of Drupal APIs will be covered.

We will demonstrate Cross Site Scripting vulnerability and Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities that have been found in contributed modules, and show how dangerous they are to your site and how they were fixed.

As great as 960.gs is, it's not where designing grids should begin and end. Grid systems should be the basis of your layout thinking. If you're picking up an existing grid - like 960.gs, you're not designing, you're taking a shortcut, and it could be in the wrong direction.

Drupal 7 is just around the corner. Seven, the new admin theme for Drupal 7, is a departure from previous Drupal themes. Designed as a result of the D7UX work undertaken by Leisa Reichelt and Mark Boulton Design, the theme only goes part way to create a great admin experience.

Contributed modules, and how they build upon, change and interact Seven is what will make it a truly great admin experience. Seven is only as good as Contrib makes it.

What I have seen for now from Drupal 7 is, that everything will be better, faster, easier and more logical and user-friendly.
Unfortunately, for the time being, I cannot use Drupal 7 in productive environments because it is not stable (surely after this conference).
For that reason I will describe my adventures with Drupal 6.