Developers always want to go faster. Repetitive tasks are mind-numbing so we figure out how to make them easy or automated. I've learned new methods for making development faster by watching other developers do their work.
This session is a selection of tips and tricks that can help you streamline your development so you have more time to play outside. Some things we'll cover are:
Google Analytics is a powerful tool, but it can be unwieldy and inscrutable to the uninitiated. Sharing PDF exports is cumbersome and static. Analytics data may be spread across multiple accounts, making it hard to see the bigger picture.
To address these problems and more, we will look at how dashboards can turns analytics data into informational, easy-to-understand reports through data visualization. We will look at a number of popular dashboard options and how they might best apply to your needs.
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Come see Backdrop CMS in action.
This session will demonstrate some of the kinds of things you can do with Backdrop core alone. We'll walk through site-building tasks that showcase some of the differences between Backdrop and Drupal, but mostly you'll see how similar the two projects are.
New Relic is an amazing tool that can help us monitor and debug performance issues and errors. It is available from managed hosting environments such as Acquia, Amazee.io, Pantheon, and Platform.sh and you can integrate it with DIY servers too.
This session will cover some of the important features of New Relic including:
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How many times have you ever heard? "Choose the right tool for the job" or "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
The Drupal community is embracing the "Get off the island" mantra. Modernizing Drupal was the goal of the latest Drupal 8 release, but technology moves faster than the awesome community could improve our beloved platform.
Building a Slack ChatBot is fairly simple. A ChatBot can be an assistant that provides guidance to your team members helping them simplify the repetitive daily tasks.
During this session, you will understand how to create a slack ChatBot using https://botkit.ai/ a JavaScript project. I will also guide you on how to integrate your ChatBot with external APIs and tools such a Natural Language Processing using https://wit.ai/.
Community Out(r)age a.k.a. DIY DrupalCON
Subtitle:
What if there would be no Drupalcon?
What if there would be no DrupalCON next year? This is exactly what happened to the European community while they were preparing for Vienna in 2017, The proposed solution was to promote camps and see what for a licence DrupalCon Europe would have in 2019.
Get off your islands, and chat to collaborate with each other.
Get off your islands, and build projects together.
Get off your islands, and lose your company restrictions.
Get off your islands, and together play this game.
This session will handle on how we tend not to collaborate and contribute in own best or company interest.
Give away the story behind a few successes, followed by a BoF to share yours.
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Pattern libraries (living style guides) have existed for years as a way to formalize design systems across applications. In the past year or so a number of compelling modules and themes have emerged to integrate pattern libraries with Drupal 8.
Your nonprofit client comes to you wanting “a website," but the content they want to fill it with is low-quality and lacks strategy. You love them, but you're stuck creating an information architecture and "content strategy" that seems the product of whim and muddled agendas. When you build the site, you end up with a great product on the tech side, but a sub-par total website because your client couldn't deliver on the content. You may think “content strategy” is the solution, but what do you do when the content to “strategize” is awful?
