Expert

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!

Out of the box, Drupal is a great system for creating and managing content. However, there are cases where your needs require additional requirements for which users can create, view, edit and delete content. To solve this problem, Drupal provides its Node Access system.

Node Access provides an API for determining the grants, or permissions, that a user has for each node. By understanding how these grants work, a module developer can create and enforce complex access rules.

We will cover some (or all) of the following topics.

This is a case study of the work involved migrating a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6.

If your D5 site only has only core modules enabled, migration is pretty straightforward. Start adding contributed modules to the mix and - as long as you don't use unknown or unsupported code - you can still migrate with a minimum amount of pain. But what about when:

• The migration will seriously break the theme
• The client decides that migration is a good time to completely re-theme
• ... and add new functionality

SQL Server is ask about a lot in enterprise drupal deployments, but since there is no D6 support and D7 support is still in the works, whats a developer to do? We'll explore options from direct SQLServer support for both versions of drupal (and how its taking place), to using migration tools that will synchronize drupal with data in external sqlserver databases.

Dries Buytaert will give his bi-annual State of Drupal talk in the beginning of DrupalCon Copenhagen, where he’ll discuss where Drupal is and where it is going. In particular, he’ll discuss the final preparations for the release of Drupal 7, the Drupal.org redesign, and some of the initial plans for Drupal 8.

The Examples for Developers project aims to provide high-quality teaching examples for developers. Its code is on api.drupal.org and it's a community project. Here's what it is, how you can use it, and how to contribute to it.

This will include the example modules that are available, how to use them, and what's on the roadmap - how you can help.

Acquia's engineering team have been building DrupalGardens at a fast pace for the past year and now that we are heading into open beta we decided it was time to open up and share what has worked well with the community. Chris Brookins (VP Engineering), Linea Rowe (Director Product Management) and Jacob Singh (Principal Engineer) will take you through a 21-day sprint in the life of the Drupal Gardens team.

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Engineering managers trying to inspire their teams to greatness while watching the bottom line.

If you're looking for love, you looking in all the wrong places. If you're looking for a good geeky time, expanding your Drupal knowledge and making drinking buddies (business partners) you are absolutely in the right place.

We'll be doing rotating pairs, speed dating style with some other surprises thrown in.
Expect to:

• Relax
• Make friends
• Learn something