Josh Koenig Enterprise Drupal: Managing epic scope scale and speed without losing your hair Twitter: @outlandishjosh Website: outlandishjosh.com Josh Koenig has been active with the Drupal community since 2003, and is a founder of the Drupal Dojo as well as CTO of Chapter Three. He specializes in infrastructure, architecture, scalability, and high-performance...
Learn MoreAndrew Tuline An Introduction to PHP and Drupal Modules Twitter: @atuline This proposed session assumes the attendees have little or no background in PHP and demonstrates how to add simple PHP code to articles as well as taking our first steps towards creating very simple Drupal modules. With the references and examples provided, attendees should be able to start down...
Learn MoreDave Reid Future of Tokens and Pathauto Twitter: @davereid Website: palantir.net Huzzah! The Token API that has lived in contrib since Drupal 5 is now included as a part of Drupal 7 core! High-fives all around! We’ll discuss Drupal 7′s token API and also everyone’s favorite (really) module Pathauto. How the token API matured and developed by becoming...
Learn MoreGreg Dunlap You Built It, You Own It Twitter: @heyrocker Website: heyrocker.com So you’ve finished your module, waited six months for your CVS account, spent six months figuring out CVS, gotten dww to delete your first aborted attempt at creating a release, and finally got your node created and your module available for download on drupal.org. Congratulations!...
Learn MoreTylor Sherman Open Data & Beautiful Maps Twitter: @tylorsherman Website: tylorsherman.com I will give an introduction to Vancouver’s Open Data initiative, show you how to simply get data on a Google map in less than 10 minutes, and then show you how to make your map beautiful with more advanced mapping techniques. The City of Vancouver Open Data Catalogue...
Learn MoreDaniel Washbrook A Case for Optimizing Server Performance Twitter: @aperomedia Website: http://imagexmedia.com Does your site need a little speed boost? Before you throw expensive hardware at the problem, we’ll demo some tools to help identify where the bottlenecks are. We’ll cover the built in performance options that Drupal provides for hosting, caching...
Learn MoreDave Reid The State of Drupal 7 Twitter: @davereid Website: Palantir.net Oh, so you’ve heard about this magical “Drupal 7″ that’s supposed to be out anytime now and is supposed to be better than sliced bread? And how it slices and dices and makes free kittens whenever you want? Well you should probably stop stay up late and watching those...
Learn MoreSteve Edwards Apache Solr for Developers Twitter: wonder95 Website: http://drupalconnect.com/ Apache Solr adds a very powerful search capability to your site out of the box, with the ability to define custom facets. However, once you get under the hood into the code, the customization that you can do is increased exponentially. This session will be targeted at...
Learn MoreThe Drupal Community: Where are we going and how can you get involved? Twitter: @webchick Website: http://webchick.net Angela Byron (aka “Webchick”) is the Drupal 7 core maintainer, recipient of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award 2008 for Best Contributor, and an Open Source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. Angela has lead Lullabot’s collaboration...
Learn MoreWordCamp Vancouver is a annual conference that took place at the Museum of Vancouver on June 12. It’s basically for anyone who wants to learn, and share, more about developing WordPress sites. Here is the video lineup of everyone who spoke this year as well as a write up each of them. (thumbnail and write-ups courtesy of John Bollwitt & WordCamp Vancouver)...
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