Code & Development

In the age of ubiquitous connectivity, distributed servers have become
readily available and usable. Gearman, a friendly infrastructure for
distributed tasks, gives developers and DBAs a large degree of flexibility
in their applications. Using Gearman, developers can access libraries
written in multiple languages, even if they are different from the ones
used in their main application. DBAs will benefit from Gearman in their
daily tasks, by accessing external features from within the database server
itself. This session introduces Gearman principles and shows some simple

If you don't know them, they will hurt you. No matter how expert you are, there are holes in your knowledge, and when things go wrong you usually blame what you know the least. So the culprit could be that database, the regular expression engine, the XML parser, the thread engine. What if the problem is between the chair and the keyboard instead?
This talk will give you some general insight on the art of software development, encouraging users to rant less and improve their own practice.

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There are bugs in every piece of software, and Drupal is no exception, and your site is no exception either. You just have to be prepared to deal with the bugs. Learn effective strategies to approach them, handy techniques to find them, and get your tools set up and mastered.

Drupal 7 has vastly improved dynamic forms capability, and oh-so-much easier for the developer.

This session will enable you to use dynamic AJAX forms (which allow parts of the form to be rebuilt without a page load, giving your visitors an improved experience), and the new #states feature, which allows parts of a form to be shown/hidden/changed based on other parts.

Who is this for? Any developer who wants to build forms using the From API. This will be accessible to anybody who has ever seen the Drupal Form API, and there is no Javascript involved at all.

This will cover:

Yes, you can! With three basic files, a clever module name, and a basic understanding of Drupal hooks, we'll create a simple module. If you know what a PHP variable and function is but have never done custom Drupal development - this session is for you. We'll cover the most important thing to know: where to look it up!

We may cover (depending on time and how much fun we are having):

• The 3 basic files
• A few basic hooks
• Handy function calls you'll use often
• A database query
• Forms
• A few fun facts and a pop quiz

This is a friendly programming introduction for people new to coding. We'll take a "Physics for Poets" approach to basic PHP concepts like variables, conditionals, and functions. You'll write a little bit of code, speak a little geek, laugh a little, and start down the addictive path of programming logic.

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This session will look at how the drippic module was created, how it works and how to use it.

Including:
- Setting up CCK, filefield and image field.
- Setting up oAuth.
- Setting up Views
- Creating nodes with images programatically
- Creating nodes from emails
- Creating short URLs
- Posting to Twitter
- Linking node comments to Twitter

Please goto http://drippic.com, sign up, and have a play.

Drupal 7 has two very exciting features for mass self-service hosting of small Drupal sites: Support of SQLite and the sites/sites.php file. Combined with a sandboxed PHP, it is now possible to automatically and safely create full new Drupal sites without any kernel hacks. This talk introduces the autosite module that wraps this functionality for easy deployment.

JQuery is a very useful little Javascript library that lets work magic into your html page in many ways. We will look into it in detail

• What is JQuery?
• Do I need this?
• How to use it. Live demo building up from simple to complex plugins
• DOM, CSS and JQuery: How to manipulate my page
• How to use JQuery UI and other libraries
• Integration in Drupal. What will change with Durpal 7?
• Ajax or how to get things from the server without reloading the page
• How to get useful Resources and Plugins

Organic groups has undergone a complete rewrite making it up to date with Drupal 7. The session will cover the differences between Group and Organic groups, and how Group is taking advantage of the field API.

We will build a basic groups site without any coding.

Later, for the benefit of module maintainers, we will build an example module that integrates with Group in order to learn how to use its API, this way attendees will have a better understanding on how to upgrade the OG modules from version 6.