Beginner

Gábor Hojtsy just had a session a year ago introducing http://localize.drupal.org/ and its a fast growing member of the drupal.org site family ever since. It got the new redesigned theme second (after the Drupal Association) and its features and usability is continually expanded and reviewed.

In this session we'd like to take you to backstage showing how localizing Drupal the software works and how you can plug in your modules and themes to be localizable as well. What's supported on drupal.org and how can you localize your own software you built in-house?

The Examples for Developers project aims to provide high-quality teaching examples for developers. Its code is on api.drupal.org and it's a community project. Here's what it is, how you can use it, and how to contribute to it.

This will include the example modules that are available, how to use them, and what's on the roadmap - how you can help.

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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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

Session goal: The goal of this session is to create informative visuals to assist in Drupal adoption.

Introduction: There is a presentation renaissance happening, and people are leaving the old tired bullet points behind. But there is a lack of useful visuals for Drupal. If you write documentation for your modules; if you present proposals to potential clients; if you deliver training, you find you need compelling visuals for your ideas.

While Drupal can do many great things via the UI alone, it's full power is sometimes only unleashed when you can write custom modules.

This presentation easy ways to begin module development with the hope of giving your next project a kick start. We will highlight some simple ways to integrate with Drupal that are frequently trgets for requests for customization. We will start from some basic hooks, and point out security, localization and internationalization best practices.

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…

If you don't know them, they will hurt you. No matter how expert you are, there are holes in your knowledge, and when things go wrong you usually blame what you know the least. So the culprit could be that database, the regular expression engine, the XML parser, the thread engine. What if the problem is between the chair and the keyboard instead?
This talk will give you some general insight on the art of software development, encouraging users to rant less and improve their own practice.

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[Update: Several people asked for a writeup on how to run a catchall Apache virtualhost]

There are bugs in every piece of software, and Drupal is no exception, and your site is no exception either. You just have to be prepared to deal with the bugs. Learn effective strategies to approach them, handy techniques to find them, and get your tools set up and mastered.

Drupal 7 has vastly improved dynamic forms capability, and oh-so-much easier for the developer.

This session will enable you to use dynamic AJAX forms (which allow parts of the form to be rebuilt without a page load, giving your visitors an improved experience), and the new #states feature, which allows parts of a form to be shown/hidden/changed based on other parts.

Who is this for? Any developer who wants to build forms using the From API. This will be accessible to anybody who has ever seen the Drupal Form API, and there is no Javascript involved at all.

This will cover: