Code & Development

A sequel to drupalcon SFO's http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/developing-apps-iphoneipada... . We will be discussing/showing more advanced stuff in this session.

With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

Some iPhone/drupal stuff I wrote in past at: http://civicactions.com/blog/sumit

Mobile Strategy is becoming critical to websites and companies who want to provide their users with more accessible and interactive information while on the go. Iphone Apps provide a great way for these organizations to adapt their content and features to an integrated mobile experience.

With the rising popularity of these apps, we need a standard Drupal iPhone application or Library to begin working with when developing apps that reference Drupal content. Today's solution is a Library that leverages the power of Cocoa/obj-c and connects it to Drupal.

Few things can liven up a room full of core developers like the word "Roadmap." Some say it would bring order to a chaotic development process, while others argue that a rigid plan would stifle Drupal's famously organic developer community. Fortunately, we don't have to speculate! While our community avoids official roadmaps, there are ample examples of long-term plans that have been used to make Drupal better.

This session will explore those successes, as well as a few notorious failures, and identify what sets them apart. We'll also take a look at important questions like:

Drupal install profiles have been around for a while, but some recent developments such as drush make or features have turned install profiles into tools that we can actually use to build cool stuff. If you want to build a new Drupal-based product or simply want to create reusable configurations, this session is for you.

Drupal 7 is on its way, and Ubercart is following close behind it. Thousands of sites rely on hundreds of different modules that integrate with Ubercart, and it is time to make sure that they will still work when the client wants to upgrade versions.

This session will go over the major changes in Ubercart 3, and how they affect contributed modules. There will also be a demonstration showing how Ubercart's implementations of Coder Review and Coder Upgrade make the upgrade efforts easy.

Yes, I said it.

Come watch me build a basic WordPress site in less time than it takes you to floss your teeth.

WordPress gets some very important things right, and their hold on this market is proof. There are 11.4 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to only hundreds of thousands of Drupal installations. We need to get our act together, raise our standards, and lower the barrier to entry.

This session will be about the changes to views in the views 3.x development cycle.
Beside the big improvement of pluggable query backends(query from flickr etc.) views supports
a bunch of more features of sql and has some more internal features.

A short list of changes

• Pluggable query backend
• AND/OR support
• GROUPBY support
• better export code
• UI stuff
• exposed forms
• pluggable pagers
• semantic support
• really translation support
• too many more to write them down