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Peter Droogmans

21 June 2010
Peter
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Attiks
Belgium
Language (Primary) Dutch
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Dan Smith

21 June 2010
galooph
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menusandblocks
United Kingdom
Language (Primary) English
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Dan Smith is based in Alsager, Cheshire, UK and has been using the internet before the web existed. He helps to organise Drupal events in the North West and was the key organiser of DrupalcampUK, as well as attending several other Manchester based user groups. He can often be found in the #drupaluk IRC channel.

A matter of safety: Security Practices in Drupal

Ivica Puljic 21 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

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.

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

Going the RIA way

gavri 20 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

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.

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.
Additional Presenters:  Mihai Corlan

A love connection: Drupal & Ubuntu

Rubén Romero 19 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Learn how the Ubuntu Community and its ecosystem connect and spread their love for Free and Open Source Software using just that, Drupal and Ubuntu. It's everywhere: Ubuntu.com, LoCo sites, SpreadUbuntu, and many others.

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!

Drupal Rights and Responsibilities

Ken Rickard 19 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Drupal is an open-source collaborative software development platform. To build and maintain a sustainable Drupal project, individuals and organizations need to understand the social contract that keeps our community thriving.

Working with Drupal brings the power of its community to work for you. But it also involves you in that community in ways that you might not expect. We'll cover some of the hidden costs of bringing Drupal into your organization, plus the resources you will need in order to keep your project sustainable.

This will feature lively panel discussion covering best practices for Drupal contributions maintainers and the rights and responsibilities of Drupal users.

Topics that we will cover:

* What are the rights and responsibilities of Open-Source developers?

Ken Rickard

19 June 2010
Ken Rickard
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Palantir.net
United States
Language (Primary) English
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I am a senior engineer and architect for Palantir.net, and have worked on such projects as ForeignAffairs.com.

I have been active in the Drupal community since 2004. Helped launch the first newspaper website on Drupal in 2005. Ran the Knight Drupal Initiative and maintain modules such as Domain Access.

I have attended every DrupalCON since Vancouver (2006), and have made over a dozen presentations.

Bernhard Fürst

18 June 2010
fuerst
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Webkonzepte und Programmierung Bernhard Fürst
Germany
Language (Primary) German
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Using RRDtool module

Gerhard Killesreiter 18 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

RRDtool module is a tool that helps you to monitor trends and health of your Drupal site.

We present ways that it can be used to give you a great overview of statistical values that are generated by your site and also by external tools.

RRDtool is an established way to log time series data. The algorithm compresses the data to allow you to store it efficiently and averages data to achieve this.

RRDtool is the back-end of many well-known tools such as Cacti, munin, or mrtg, that will be well-known to anybody who has managed a website.

The RRDtool Drupal module was developed by Jeremy Andrews and Gerhard Killesreiter of Tag1 Consulting to allow using RRDtool for measurements that are known by Drupal only and can not be measured externally, such as the invocation of specific hooks.

Additional Presenters:  Jeremy Andrews

Pro-active Selenium testing with Drupal

J-P Stacey 18 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Want to get robust tests for your site running NOW, but don't know how? Selenium needs no PHP or Drupal chops and you can write tests by just clicking around the site.

Selenium is a testing framework which allows anyone - developers, designers, project managers or the client - to record user journeys in their browser and have those user journeys be replayable on anyone else's browser. It also supports whole suites of tests, automating in the browser and automating outside the browser using a dedicated testing server.

Selenium's a great choice for Drupal testing because so much of the functionality you or your client will want to build is browser-based. Also, with a few extra tweaks, Drupal can integrate very nicely with Selenium to produce robust tests.