Code & Development

Architecturing the way content editor will be able to manage the content on their site is one of the most important parts of building a web site.

One power-feature of Drupal is flexibility. You can take what's already made by others and create your "own" version of the system.

Having the experience on more than 250 developed projects and always exceeding our clients' highest expectations, we have identified absolutely-must-have modules fitted for different types of sites, and to benefit your customer with the full extent of this great CMS.

Also, our in-house research has shown there are many small enhancements that can make a big difference.

This session will include live, enlightening demonstrations that will help you write JavaScript code that is more beautiful and more maintainable. This session will help you understand and avoid some of the common pitfalls made possible by JavaScript's flexibility.

JavaScript code can be at least as beautiful as PHP code. Take a quick look at this PHP code:

function setText(&$elements, $text) {
  myeach($elements, create_function('&$element, $text',
    '$element = preg_replace("/>[^<]*</", ">$text<", $element);'),

The Page Syndication module has been used by a number of organizations like Hearst Media, the New England Patriots and Experian to distribute rich content to portals, fan sites and more. Learn how to use this Drupal module, in conjunction with Panels and CTools to create content that other sites can embed with a single line of JavaScript. Content can take the form of just about anything that can be put on a Panels pages, including polls, quizzes, forms or a calendar.

Bring in data from other sites—Wikipedia content, New York Times historical contnet, and much more—and expose your site’s information for others to reuse. With the Semantic Web, you can use the Web as your CMS.

In this session, we will demonstrate how you can use the power of the Semantic Web to expose your site’s information and reuse information from other sites. We will also provide links as we go along to screencasts we have produced to guide you step-by-step in setting up the modules.

Topics covered:
Getting your content ready for reuse using RDF UI and SPARQL Endpoint

Every advocacy group has a website about their campaign, but what they need is a campaign that actually happens online. An effective website should offer volunteers ways to truly participate in shaping public opinion through online and offline interactions. And Drupal can make this possible.

We’ll show you how to quickly create a netroots-style website to mobilize volunteers to take specific actions to support an issue - political or otherwise.

Using a collection of Drupal modules, campaign advocates will be able to:

As of Drupal 7 we'll have RDFa markup in core, in this session I will:

• explain what the implications are of this and why this matters
• give a short introduction to the Semantic web, RDF, RDFa and SPARQL in human language
• give a short overview of the RDF modules that are available in contrib
• talk about some of the potential use cases of all these magical technologies

Slides for a former incarnation of this presentation are up at:
http://www.slideshare.net/kvantomme/semantic-web-and-drupal-an-introduction

For every site, a .make file

Tools like Drush and .make files are changing how Drupal sites are built and making building them faster. This presentation will demonstrate the process of using these tools on real client work. We'll cover what works really well, how to start using it now, as well as where the rough spots still are. Approximately half of the time will be lecture style presentation about how this process works, the other half will be demonstrations of the various tools. Some topics we'll cover include:

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Learn from members of the Drupal security team about common vulnerabilities in module and theme code, how to spot them, and how to write secure code yourself.

A conceptual framework for handling user input safely, as well as the security aspects of Drupal APIs will be covered.

We will demonstrate Cross Site Scripting vulnerability and Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities that have been found in contributed modules, and show how dangerous they are to your site and how they were fixed.

How do we handle 5 major Danish news sites, 250 online journalists, 5 million daily page views, 1 million news articles in the database and another 500 being added every day - all in one database?

In 2009 the largest news publishing group in Denmark, Berlingske Media, started a migration of their largest sites to Drupal. The migration is currently half-way, and the current platform is among the largest Drupal installations in the world.