Developer

In this session you will learn about common security website holes, how hackers use them and what you can do as site developer/maintainer to prevent security breeches. Following topics will be discussed:

• Explanation of top 10 security holes categories by OWASP
• Types of attack: it is not just your Drupal site that can be compromised. You will learn about the weak spots in your providers’ web server and beyond
• How to use Drupal in a secure way
• Using permission system properly to secure your applications

Drupal contains many layers of abstraction. If you're tasked with making a Drupal application perform well, it can be daunting trying to locate all of the possible bottlenecks. Query loggers and print statements are great, but sometimes we need something better, faster and stronger.

When life gives you bad role models, make rolemodelade.

We learn so much in life from the mistakes of others. Can a best practice really be identified until a worst practice comes along that makes us laugh and cry?

With all the new html5 buzz, and the talk about the future of flash, its time to make some order out of the chaos.
In this session we will talk about the benefits of using the flash platform.
whether you want to build an eye-caching wizard, a sophisticated mapping applet or to build a customized media players, the option of using flash cannot be ignored.

• how to decide when to prefer the use of flash over the use of javascript.
• Show you some real world examples of leveraging Flash and Flex to build a great user experience in Drupal.

With Drupal-sites, you’re often sitting on a mountain of interesting data. I will go through some of the tools and methods you can use to present those data to your users in interesting and appealing ways.

Using the gRaphaël JavaScript library, and with the combined forces of Drupals API, SQL, caching and statistics, I will give an introduction to how you can make your site more appealing to data explorers.

With the incredible success of Ubuntu around the world, the LoCo project helps groups of Ubuntu fans and enthusiasts to work together in regional teams to help advocate, promote, translate, develop and otherwise improve Ubuntu.

This session focuses on how the Ubuntu Community makes use of Drupal everywhere: From ubuntu.com through most Local Community sites worldwide and to the Ubuntu Marketing site SpreadUbuntu, we use Drupal to spread the message of Open Source Freedom. And we want to share this know-how with everyone!