Developer

Have you ever been frustrated by the way you and your team work with Drupal, finding yourself replicating change after change or following complex and error-prone protocols to get your latest development to that production site? Do you want to be able to reuse your settings and configuration across different projects, thus speeding up your development process? Are you looking for ways to work more efficiently with your team on a Drupal project, but haven't figured entirely how?

This talk will give an overview of using install profiles, aegir and features to manage multiple websites with similar (or identical) requirements. Drupal multisite has been around for years, but upgrading and managing sites in batches can still be a lot of work. These techniques will come in handy even if you have only a single site and want to improve the dev -> production workflow (i.e., no longer making changes in a live environment).

Jacob Singh (Drupal core developer, Acquia DrupalGardens engineer and Media module maintainer) will be showing off some of the new media file management functionalities in Drupal 7 core and contrib.

This session is geared toward site builders and developers, but most of it will be non-technical and appropriate for business leaders trying to grasp the possibilities. We'll be looking at:

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The Apache Solr Search Integration can give you great results right away, but have you taken the time to look in depth at its configuration options? Do you understand how changing those setting can provide a better search experience for your users and focus attention on the content you think is most important?

This session will explain the basic concepts behind the different configuration sections in the admin interface and then show the effect of different configuration options on what goes into the search index, and how search results are found and ordered.

Drupal is a powerful tool that can be configured many ways, sometimes insecurely. Knowing attack vectors against your site and how to prevent them is important for everyone building a Drupal site. In this session, aimed at site-administrators, we'll discuss some vulnerabilities, proper configuration, and what you can do to maintain your site's security.

Topics include:

• Common vulnerabilities and what they mean
• Drupal defaults and why you should care
• Trusting site visitors
• How to recover from attack

You know when you're doing it wrong. When you're staying up all night trying to figure out what your next steps are, what you should have known three weeks ago about this particular project, and when you just don't know who does what. But you're pretty sure that everyone else doesn't have these particular problems, because they're doing so well!

This is probably wrong.