Sessions
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Beginner's Hands-On (Bush)
Extending Drupal Awesomeness— Further!
This session will cover how to install Drupal Modules, Drupal Themes, and then manage those modules. This will be followed by the Drupal File system, and then we'll move on to Content Types, Fields, and begin to get our feet wet with taxonomy!
Forms, Forms and Forms!
This session is all about using Webform and how to leverage it to make it work for you!
How do I...? What do I need? (Q&A Panel)
You've got a full day of Drupal training under your belt now. You're full of great knowledge but you've got that question, you know? That question— I want my site to do that one thing... just not sure how. That's great! Ask our Panel of Drupal Experts and we'll be able to point you in the right...
Introduction to the Web and Beginning Drupal
This session is to give the audience a high-level overview of how the web works, the underlying technologies, and why Drupal is awesome! We'll also cover how to install Drupal and begin using it right away!
Keeping Up With Maintenance
This is all about keeping your site lubricated and functioning great! Learn about how to update modules, stay on top of security, and the infamous CRON!
Pimping Your Site
We'll cover even more modules to make your site that much more awesome including ImageCache, Pathauto, 404 Navigation, Backup and Migrate, Module Filter, Administration Menu, Global Redirect, Page Title, XML Sitemap, SEO Compliance Checker, and Dashboard.
Tags and Views
Now that you have the power of content types and fields, we'll go into more depth with taxonomy and views! Views are used create powerful lists of content.
Drupal Savvy (Suntrust)
7 Times 7 New Things in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 has so many features, APIs and modules, we decided to dedicate a whole session to just the new ones. End users, developers, themers and sysadmins will all find something new and improved. In this presentation, you'll learn 49 new things about Drupal 7!
The presentation was...
D7 theming has changed ... for the better!
We will explore the "New Way" D7 handles elements in the theming layer and also introduce render() and hide() as our new BFFs. Come learn what has changed in D7 theming with Drupal Theming Rockstar Erik Baldwin. This will be a two-part session; Erik will be familiarizing attendees with D7...
Drupal and VOIP (BoF Room)
A BoF discussion on how to integrate Drupal and VOIP services.
Intermediate Theming with Drupal 7
Drupal 7 introduced lots of new features for themers - and made old ones obselete. We will get through as many hands-on examples as possible in the allotted time, while showing off the new D7 theming workflow.
Theming - Using Genesis as a base theme
Genesis is an standards compliant, accessible and semantically rich starter theme for Drupal. It is designed to be easy to theme yet extremely flexible, giving you endless theming possibilities. A good base theme makes building a standards-compliant and accessible theme easier than starting from...
Understanding Version Control and GIT
You're a developer. You've been writing this PHP stuff for a while. You might even play with others on this great big Internet of ours, but how well do you play with others? Did you ever wonder about that magic repository in the sky that Dries and all the big high muckety-mucks talk...
Views
Far and away the most powerful and often used module in the Drupal contributed ecosystem. Ted will fill you in on the details.
Business and Server Infrastructure (107)
Case Study - Harland Financial Solutions
Hear about a recent website redesign project that moved an international
company from a proprietary "closed" system to Drupal.
Topics include:
- thought process for selecting Drupal
- selection of a Drupal development company & a hosting copmany
- general...
Hosting Drupal
In this presentation you will learn about best practices for hosting Drupal. Competitive technologies such as: Amazon web services, Rackspace Cloud, VPS and Dedicated hosting for your site. The pro's and con's of hosting it in each environment and general best practices. We'll also cover how to...
HTML5 Media, Drupal, & Your Users (Drupal Saavy track)
In this session, I discuss some of the background behind HTML5 media formats, how it has caused confusion over implementation, modules to help ease the burden, and a simple method to give added user control of HTML5 media positioning within the page layout.
Integration With Back-Office
As Drupal gains a foothold in larger organizations, we are faced with the challenge of talking to enterprise systems. Join the Florida Hospital web team on an adventure through the mysterious world of closed-source, venture deep into the belly of a huge organization and learn to speak the...
Practical Uses for Ubercart
Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce shopping cart that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid...
Project Management for Drupal
Many Drupal shops started as small businesses or even single-person shops. As time progresses and projects get more complex, managing the overall project becomes more important, for the developer's sanity and for the client's happiness. In this session, we'll cover some techniques you can use to...
Working with Drupal firms
Working with another company to develop your website can be a confusing process. There are plenty of technical and industry terms that can get in the way of communication. This session will cover how many Drupal development firms think, what terms they may use and how you can best work with them...
Drupal Rockstars (108)
AEgir Overview and Tools
The Aegir hosting system allows developers and site administrators to automate many of the common tasks associated with deploying and managing large websites. Aegir makes it easy to install, upgrade, deploy, and backup an entire network of Drupal sites.
Recent support for multi-server...
Drupal Design Patterns
You can find the session slides at http://www.slideshare.net/erikwebb/drupal-design-patterns
You can find the accompanying blog posts at...
Markup Discipline
Markup Discipline in Drupal is a state where you have complete control over the output of your site and meaning is the only authority. In this session, you'll be introduced to the techniques for Drupal 7 that give you this control, and the benefits of using it to its full potential. I'll cover...
MongoDB
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. Massive sites like Examiner.com have been making use of these modern database systems for redundancy, speed and flexibility.
Rapid Drupal Development using Features and Drush (Part I)
(Admin note: this is the first half of an hour-long session. Due to constraints, we could not mark off a whole hour, so we split it into two half-hour sessions)
In this session, we will discuss using the Features Module...
Rapid Drupal Development using Features and Drush (Part II)
(Admin note: this is the second half of an hour-long session. Due to constraints, we could not mark off a whole hour, so we split it into two half-hour sessions)
In this session, we will discuss using the Features...
Upgrading from D6 to D7: Is it time yet?
This session will be an open discussion about some of the pitfalls involved with upgrading and tricks to getting around them.
We will be taking notes on http://ietherpad.com/d6d7 and sharing them afterwards. If you...
Social Media Club 1 (222)
Alex DeCarvalho - Haiti Relief
Building a social network for physicians, teaching at UMiami, and organizing BarCampMiami, @smcsf, and The Startup Forum, among other things
http://alexdc.org
Rooms and times subject to change.
Dustin Clingman - Gamification
Zee Gee Games
The Story So Far
ZeeGee Games was founded in 2002 by Dustin Clingman and Dave Arneson as a "pen and paper" role-playing game company. The immediate success of the company led ZeeGee Games to expanded its product line into other forms of gaming. Today, ZeeGee Games...
Location Based Services Marketing
Wikpedia: A location-based service (LBS) is an information or entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the geographical position of...
Marc Meyer - Hashtag Social Media
OK, straight-up, we are changing the game, raising the bar and creating something new here.
We're calling it...#hastagsocialmedia. Let's re-think who's helping who here. Event planners pack as many anointed or self proclaimed "experts" into conference panels as they can. Typically YOU...
Michele Lorito-Chase - Grassroots Tech Initiatives
Ghost Executive Group
Rooms and times subject to change.
Social Media Club 2 (223)
Gregg Pollack and Caike Souza - Code Isn't Enough
This is a talk about lessons they don't teach in programming classes. It takes more then just technical skills to succeed at being a software developer. You may also need to communicate effectively, manage projects, train your clients, and mainly just play well with others. We developers are an...
Jennifer Thompson - Social Media & Politics
Jennifer Thompson was elected to the Orange County Commission in November 2010 by 71% of the voting electorate to serve a four year term.
Rooms and times subject to change.
News
FLDC Social Media Feed
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