DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - Drupal

Accelerate your web sites with Varnish

TBarregren — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:14:19 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Learn how to install, configure and monitoring Varnish Cache - an increasingly popular reverse proxy cache that accelerates content-heavy dynamic web sites.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Accelerate your web sites with Varnish

Varnish is a reverse proxy cache. It accelerate your web site by caching responses from your web server and thereby offloading Drupal. Varnish is a modern solution outperforming its competing products by as much as twenty times. That is the reason for its increasing popularity as web accelerator.

Audience

This session is for anyone who is not afraid to manage Linux servers, but who has not yet looked into Varnish.

What you will learn

In this session you will learn:

What Varnish is.
When to use Varnish.

Drupal in the Corporate Eco-System

amaree — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:06:03 +0000

Type: Not planned session

This talk will aim to share the experience of assisting corporations with the introduction of Drupal, the needed areas of attention in the upgrade process and some hard lessons learnt on the battle fields.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

case study

Over the past two years the Drupal user base has grown to include large corporations. This talk presents experiences learnt from various projects introducing Drupal and Open Source Technologies into corporations with pre-existing environments. This discussion will be aimed at:

Make performance a non-issue with Varnish

perbu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:20:10 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Instead of focusing all your energy on tuning Drupal, PHP and MySQL you can easily just add coating of Varnish on Drupal and you'll have solved your problems forever.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator, also known as a caching reverse proxy or a HTTP accelerator.

This talk focuses on what Varnish does, how Varnish achieves its performance levels, its architecture and future development. Experiences from applying Varnish to varnish-cache.org (a trac site) and varnish-software.com (Drupal 6 Pressflow) is presented.

Building a Drupal 7 site - from installation to full real life site

pivica — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:49:13 +0000

Type: Not planned session

With Drupal 7 just around the corner (beta releases are planned for end of June), this session will demonstrate the creation of simple real life site. The session starts with site sketching and core Drupal 7 install and ends with production-ready website.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

from installation to full real life site

With Drupal 7 just around the corner (beta releases are planned for July), this session will demonstrate the creation of a simple real life site. The session starts with site sketching and a core Drupal 7 install and ends with a production-ready website.

In this session you will learn how to create a Drupal site that has:

a blog & news section
a product section with image gallery
client interaction - (contact page, forum and simple mailing list)
a custom front page (with the help of views, blocks and a little custom css)
basic SEO configuration

Session plan

iPhone Drupal and Web Services

kylebrowning — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:56:26 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Want to learn how the iPhone can easily communicate with Drupal, this session explains it all. Mobile Strategy is becoming critical to websites and companies who want to provide their users with more accessible and interactive information while on the go. Iphone Apps provide a great way for these organizations to adapt their content and features to an integrated mobile experience.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Mobile Strategy is becoming critical to websites and companies who want to provide their users with more accessible and interactive information while on the go. Iphone Apps provide a great way for these organizations to adapt their content and features to an integrated mobile experience.

With the rising popularity of these apps, we need a standard Drupal iPhone application or Library to begin working with when developing apps that reference Drupal content. Today's solution is a Library that leverages the power of Cocoa/obj-c and connects it to Drupal.