Intermediate

Last winter, when the recession hit my corner of the web world, I went and got myself one of those full-time jobs. Suddenly instead of designing, building and theming each site from beginning to end as a separate project, I found myself in a mosh-pit of 40 developers, developing dozens of sites at the same time. We've been moving a whole "enterprise level" corporation over to Drupal, rapidly theming without any visual designs (still waiting). Come hear about what I've learned, and the strategy I created for best reusing code and coordinating the efforts of the team.

Topics covered include:

• Core templates and how they work together
• Most-used templates and the variables available
• Overriding templates for common use cases
• The Drupal design patterns you will need to design and theme for (whether you like it or not)
• Changes between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7
• Modules that make theming easier and/or more powerful
• The parent-child theme thing
• Working with module templates, including Views and CCK
• Gotchas, tips and tricks

Have you already studied to your heart's content the touristy attractions of Drupal 7 (Entity API, Fields, AJAX framework, etc.)? Looking to see something unexpected in Drupal 7? You're in luck.

Visit with me the semi-secret neighborhoods of Drupal 7, only known by some natives.

• Queues and Jobs: execute long-running jobs easily and reliably
• Pluggeable caches: do you love Cache Router, but hope it was properly maintained?
• Extensible database drivers: ever wanted to be able to alter the behavior of the database engine, to optimize your cluster?

The first thing any Drupal Project Manager learns is that clients only understand the power of the system when they see it. Once you get close to a final product, suddenly the client wants more. This new imaginative phase comes partly from the learning curve of any new system, and partly from simple human nature. Indeed, we are all prone to getting our best ideas towards the end of the project. Managed poorly, this tendency can be an enormous liability on your project budget; the term "scope creep" evokes the frightening image of a project that never ends.

Enterprise knowledge management has been the focus of many software
products in the last decade. However most of these products have
proven to fail on capturing everyone's inputs and on customizing the
information in order to meet people's constant requirements.

Drupal allows users with different roles to create rich contents
with defined properties. These contents give shape to a big infomation
cloud, in which users can categorize them using either the organization's language
(taxonomy) or their personal one (tags). This categorization

In this session, we'll look at why depending on Twitter and Facebook (or similar) has serious drawbacks; the network should be open and federated! We'll look at OStatus (http://ostatus.org/), the completely open protocol that we've been working to develop and promote at StatusNet (http://status.net/) for real-time, federated public messaging and we'll see why it's interesting (and important) for Drupal.

This session is for open protocol geeks, freedom fighters and anyone who is just trying figure out what it all means.

Ubercart has been ported to Drupal 7 and feature development is in full swing. In this session we will discuss the current road map and future plans for Ubercart on Drupal 7 and 8. We welcome suggestions from the community and will ask for guidance in the order of implementation. Topics will include:

Replacing Conditinal Actions with Rules: Complete
Namespacing functions: Complete
AHAH forms: Mostly complete
Theming improvements:
Fields for Orders:
Fields for Products:
Products as an entity separate from nodes:
Tax improvements:
Addresses standards:
Address book:

RIP CVS - Drupal is going git! This session will cover the fundamentals you'll need to know in order to work with git. We'll do basic git instruction, then move on into additional information and techniques that'll make working with the new drupal.org git infrastructure a breeze. Whether you're a maintainer, contributor, or just use Drupal at your work, this session will give you a working knowledge of how git and drupal fit together.

Drupal has long been touted as a system that provides the necessary "plumbing" to build community-oriented websites. However, it is not immediately obvious, even to developers with some experience how one gets from a vanilla Drupal installation to creating a sophisticated community with complex interactions and different types of users.

A developer environment is a personal thing. There is no one perfect setup, but I'm going to recommend a number of different tools available to optimize your Drupal development. Developers and themers will get the most out of this session.

TOPICS
IDE – E.g. Zend Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans.
Browser Plugins – E.g. Firebug.
Tips and Tricks – Logical steps to solve Drupal related problems.
Modules – E.g. coder and devel modules.
Deployment – How to get your code from development to production.
Management – Tracking tasks is an essential part of development.