Talk

Get involved

Posted Fri, 29/05/2009 - 19:29 by a.evans

Abstract:

Where is your local Drupal usergroup? This talk hopes to strengthen the UK Drupal community by listing the UK Drupal meetups, where to get information and anything else related to Drupal in the UK.

Length:

30 minutes

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Drupal for the opensource agency

Posted Fri, 29/05/2009 - 19:13 by n.rhind

Abstract:

Drupal is a powerful free cms / social networking platform. It is still unknown to many agencies in the digital community. Learn how Drupal can grow your business providing the next generation of websites from a small basic user editable site to massive online communities.

Length:

30 minutes

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Securing your digital identity with Drupal

Posted Fri, 29/05/2009 - 09:19 by mysty

Abstract:

Discussing why, and demonstrating how easy it is to take back control of your digital identity and make the web safer with OpenID in Drupal.

Length:

30 minutes

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Form API

Posted Thu, 28/05/2009 - 07:07 by Steven Jones

Abstract:

This assumes you've built the odd form using Form API and now, you want to know more. We'll look at theming your forms, building complex table-based forms, a little Form API internals, AHAH and anything else you want to know (let me know in the comments below!)

Length:

30 minutes

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Drupal Forms

Posted Thu, 28/05/2009 - 07:06 by Steven Jones

Abstract:

In this beginner level talk we look at different ways of creating forms in Drupal, and their suitability for different situations. We discuss Form API: how to change existing forms and creating new forms from scratch.

Length:

30 minutes

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edocr.com (runs on Drupal) - Challenges of a tech startup

Posted Wed, 27/05/2009 - 21:00 by ManojRanaweera

Abstract:

edocr.com was selected in 2008 as one of the 20 hottest tech startups of UK by Webmission08 supported by Doug Richard's of BBC's Dragons Den fame and UKTI. Soft-launched in Oct 2007, edocr.com will begin commercial operation on June 1st 2009. Not being a techie, I would like to discuss the challenges faced in developing such a product in a bootstrapped environment and the key role played by local community. Also keen to explore experience anyone has of running a Drupal front-end in EC2 AWS.

Length:

30 minutes

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Strategies for version control of a Drupal site project.

Posted Wed, 27/05/2009 - 07:52 by stewsnooze

Abstract:

Version control with Drupal can be tricky! I can propose and take questions on a way to version control your changes in a popular source control system, like subversion, that even includes database changes. I'll show how we use module.install files to handle changes, exporting views and cck types and adding them into the .install files and using install profile api to help glue it all together. I can stretch or shrink this session, change it into a workshop e.t.c. I'll skim over the stuff in here in a separate session over the larger development practice we take at Economist.com.

Length:

20 minutes

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Scaling Drupal Development

Posted Tue, 26/05/2009 - 12:14 by stewsnooze

Abstract:

Economist.com have a pretty advanced Drupal development workflow. I could cover it and help others see what good bits they can take. We could discuss: Using subversion (including vendor branches to manage upstream Drupal modules e.t.c and your changes to them) Continuous integration of your Drupal changes with Hudson. Automatic SimpleTesting your code. Automatic load testing with Jmeter. Using and automating Selenium to simulate real browsers . Doing all of this economically on amazon ec2. I'd be happy to switch this to a workshop or to narrow the focus on one area. Feedback very welcome.

Length:

60 minutes