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Blaming the unknown - constructive approach to technology

Giuseppe Maxia 14 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Did something go wrong with your coding recently? And where did you put the blame when that happened? If you missed the target, you may want to learn what Mozart, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and Java have in common.

If you don't know them, they will hurt you. No matter how expert you are, there are holes in your knowledge, and when things go wrong you usually blame what you know the least. So the culprit could be that database, the regular expression engine, the XML parser, the thread engine. What if the problem is between the chair and the keyboard instead?
This talk will give you some general insight on the art of software development, encouraging users to rant less and improve their own practice.

Giuseppe Maxia

14 June 2010
Giuseppe Maxia
Local team/staff
Personal information
Oracle
Italy
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Italian
Social information
datacharmer
datacharmer
datacharmer

Giuseppe Maxia, a.k.a. The Data Charmer.

I am the MySQL Community Team Lead at Oracle. I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast.
During the past 23 years I have worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, object oriented programming, system administration.
Fluent in Italian, English, Perl, SQL, Lua, C, Bash, and good speaker of C++, French, Spanish, Java.
I work in cyberspace, with a virtual team.

Thomas Foss Christensen

14 June 2010
Thomas Foss
Local team/staff
Personal information
Uberkant
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
Combert

Running Hundreds of Sites - Scaling Drupal Horizontally

Dave Hall 14 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments. Last year Dave Hall developed, deployed and managed almost 2100 production Drupal 6 sites. During the presentation Dave will share the knowledge he has developed about scaling Drupal horizontally.

Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments.

Managing a handful of production Drupal sites is pretty straight forward. When you start deploying or trying to manage hundreds or even thousands of sites, things get complicated very quickly. Dave Hall will explain how he has used Aegir and Drupal to deploy and manage thousands of production websites.

Valentin Bora

13 June 2010
Valentin Bora
Local team/staff
Personal information
Joy Group
Romania
Language (Primary) Romanian
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
valentinbora
833424
valentinbora

Hans J Hansen

11 June 2010
Hans J Hansen
Local team/staff
Personal information
Den Rytmiske Højskole
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
hansjh

Mark Brown

11 June 2010
Mark Brown
Local team/staff
Personal information
Microsoft Corporation
United States
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Spanish
Social information
markjbrown
675594
markjbrown

Mark works at Microsoft and he spends his time trying to make Drupal on Windows and IIS a better experience for the Drupal Community.

J-P Stacey

10 June 2010
J-P
Local team/staff
Personal information
Torchbox
United Kingdom
Language (Primary) English
Social information
jp.stacey
130468
jpstacey
jp_stacey

I'm Drupal Lead and Project Architect for Team Drupal at Torchbox Ltd. Torchbox is an independently-owned web design and development company based in Oxfordshire, providing high-quality, cost-effective solutions for clients who come primarily, but not exclusively, from the charity, NGO and public sectors. Team Drupal is dedicated to building, improving and maintaining innovative Drupal websites for those sectors.

Teaching Drupal

Type:  Session in official program

You know how to use Drupal but do you know how to teach others to use it? We'll define a method for showing clients how to use the tools we build without freaking them out.

You know how to use Drupal. You know how to write code, build a theme, and SEO a site. But do you know how to teach others to use Drupal? For every site we create there are clients who must use it, many don't know a node from a block. After this session, you will be able to introduce clients to Drupal without freaking them out.

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  • Defining "need to know" and emphasizing main concepts
  • Thinking like a user, talking like a mentor
  • Using normal words with a sprinkling of Drupalese
  • Mapping in Drupal with OpenLayers

    Alan Palazzolo 8 June 2010
    Type:  Session in official program

    OpenLayers is a powerful Javascript library to do web mapping with. Combined with Drupal, OpenLayers provides a solid base for creating maps on your Drupal site and integrating Drupal structures. This session will demo the module and talk about the status and direction of the module.

    Web mapping is all the rage these days, and for good reason. Mapping allows users to explore data in a more meaningful and enjoyable way. Combining the power of geo-coded content and mapping, a site's content can come to life in ways that traditional sites cannot offer.

    Additional Presenters:  Thomas Turnbull