Stéphane scor Corlosquet has been the main driving force in incorporating Semantic Web capabilities into the DrupalCMS. His RDF CCK and evoc contributed modules to Drupal 6 have naturally evolved to be accepted as standard within the core of the upcoming Drupal 7.
This session will illustrate the use of the Aegir hosting system to simplify the life of developers and administrators, by automating a lot of the common tasks involved in deploying sites and collecting best practices of Drupal sites management.
Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. It's built on Drupal itself, so that your user interface to the system becomes a 'meta-drupal' site, with nodes representing all of your hosted sites and all of the components of your hosting environment.
Whether you are new to Aegir (or Drupal!) or an experienced developer, you will get a very good idea of where we are in the development of this project and the latest new features we are giving to the community.
When Rasmus Frey was 7 years old, his parents took him to the largest buffet in the world, at the CircusCircus Hotel in Las Vegas. Confronted with the overwhelming abundance of the table, Mr. Frey was confused. This session is about what happens when you try to serve everything at once: You go to bed hungry.
When Rasmus Frey was 7 years old, his parents took him to the largest buffet in the world, at the CircusCircus Hotel in Las Vegas. Confronted with the overwhelming abundance of the table, Mr. Frey was confused. This session is about what happens when you try to serve everything at once: You go to bed hungry.
This session will provide an overview of Drupal’s taxonomy system, essential taxonomy-enhancing modules and changes in Drupal 7. Further a demo on how to effectively manage your vocabularies using the Taxonomy Manager will be given.
Drupal’s taxonomy system helps you to organize content on your website. This robust categorization system is one thing that sets Drupal apart from other CMSs and in combination with taxonomy-enhancing modules the system gets even more powerful.
During the development cycle for Drupal 7, the system received a big overhaul. Besides important API improvements, taxonomy term fields have been introduced. These fields open up many new possibilities and change the way of using the taxonomy system.
The session will cover examples of creating Drupal websites for "normal" clients.
"normal" in my case means clients:
from over 15 countries in Europe
with limited budget
with a limited time frame
with many good ideas
with different backgrounds
with very different experiences concerning websites and ICT knowledge
from small and big companies
What I have seen for now from Drupal 7 is, that everything will be better, faster, easier and more logical and user-friendly.
Unfortunately, for the time being, I cannot use Drupal 7 in productive environments because it is not stable (surely after this conference).
For that reason I will describe my adventures with Drupal 6.
Guy from Earth. Global technology evangelist. Creator of opportunities and customers. Writer, deal-maker, engineer, speaker, and enabler of multi-cultural, multi-national teams. Early adopter. Dangerously technical. Interested in semantic Web, social media, blogging, Drupal & CMS/blog engines, quality, and everything tech. Enjoy speedy, W3C-complaint Web sites. Proponent of the Open Web, and Internet Freedom, transparency, and liberty. Advocate for good.
Building Drupal applications on Windows and IIS has always been hard. Well that's about to change. Come see the beta of a brand new product from Microsoft designed to simplify the entire workflow from starting a new project to deployment in a hosted environment, all inside a single tool.
Are you familiar with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer and the integrated Web Applications Gallery? These Microsoft offers made it easy to install and configure Drupal on Windows. But when building, optimizing and deploying Drupal on Windows and IIS it was still difficult. Come see the beta of a brand new product from Microsoft that covers the entire workflow, from pulling down the latest build of Drupal for Windows all the way to deploying it to a hosted environment, all in one place.
Web technology and business consultant for large scale social networking applications for the media industry and other enterprise organizations. Drupal expert and provider of web-based solutions for clients including FastCompany.com, Experian, VMware, Lifetime TV, Lime.com, and others.
...and how to appear rational and composed in spite of being on the verge of panic and breakdown.
We have all finished a lot of great projects in our time, but also have some in our luggage, which we would rather forget and never think about again.
This is a tongue in cheek session about web projects potentially going wrong because of
- Promises that can never be fulfilled.
- Demands that are outrageous.
- Specifications, which are so vaporous that they almost don't exist.
- Things that will never happen... except when they do.
- Nodding at meetings although all alarms are sounding.
We will amongst other things and in no particular order answer the following questions
- Why physical meetings are an 80% waste of time.
- Why moving servers is never, ever painless.
- Why not to count hours.