Intermediate

Drupal now has a rapidly growing global community, and seasoned professionals find it difficult to keep up with everything that's going on - let alone the daunted newbies that are just joining.

I believed it was time to have a curated source of independent journalism about Drupal and its community - so I set up Drupalradar a month ago to do this.

Since then I've been approached by lots of people who are also interested in this, so I agreed to setup a BoF for us all to get together to discuss it.

You may want to attend this if....

Everyone's talking about the benefits of HTML5 for web apps but the specification also introduces an extra layer of semantic richness to our web documents. These additions aren't wishful thinking for some far-flung future: you can start using them today. That's because the design principles driving HTML5 are steeped in pragmatism. Find out how important good design principles are to any project, whether it's a website, a content management system, or the very language that underpins the World Wide Web.

Come Join the not so secret underground movement of beautiful designer, awesome front end developers & other Drupal lovers who wanna make drupal look as good on the outside as on the inside!

The Design 4 Drupal group have been working the last couple of years to create a space for "frontend developers" where we can find shelter for the evil developers & demanding clients ;)

The last year a lot have happend 2 "D4D" camps have been held in Boston, a new base theme have been added to drupal7, and we have succeed in putting ourself on the map in the drupal community.

Rasmus' talk will cover various performance-related topics with a focus on Drupal.

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for creating the PHP project in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. Rasmus was most recently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for over 7 years before joining WePay in 2010. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.

The last drupalcon GVS presented his Certified to Rock tool and before that there was some attempts to achieve the same goal.

I also tried to provide some scripts to help to the analysis.

In this BoF it would be great to talk about what aspects we should take in account, and tools that let automate such a process.

Doing Drupal sites on Windows has never been easy and using SQL Server was impossible. Microsoft is changing that with support for SQL Server in Drupal 7 and a new product called Web Matrix which makes it easy to build and host Drupal on Windows. In this session we’ll show off our new open source PDO_SQLSRV Driver and the new SQL Server Contributed Module created by Commerce Guys. We’ll then show you how easy Drupal is on Windows using WebMatrix. We’ll start with a brand new drop of Drupal, stand it up and deploy to a Windows host in just minutes.

Topics covered include:

• Core templates and how they work together
• Most-used templates and the variables available
• Overriding templates for common use cases
• The Drupal design patterns you will need to design and theme for (whether you like it or not)
• Changes between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7
• Modules that make theming easier and/or more powerful
• The parent-child theme thing
• Working with module templates, including Views and CCK
• Gotchas, tips and tricks

"The Real-Time Web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it's available - instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates." [source].

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This session will highlight some technical and architectual challenges developers are facing when building modern newspaper sites and how we solved them in NodeStream using the big four - Panels, Views, CCK and Rules. This session will also cover the integration between NodeStream and Newspilot, an editorial publishing system used by the majority of all daily newspapers in Scandinavia. The integration is built on top of the Services and Deploy modules. Finally we will talk about how we chosen to package NodeStream with the Features module, Drush Make and a custom install profile.