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October 24

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Intermediate to Advanced CSS for Practical Peoples

Intermediate
Stephens Lounge

The goal of this training is to help people who have messed around in CSS wrap their heads around the harder concepts of CSS and go on to show advanced tips and tricks. There'll be discussion, exercises, and fancy slides.

October 25

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

October 26

9:00 AM-9:45 AM

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Data Security in Drupal 8

security / backend development / data
Intermediate

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Your website’s data is at risk, but knowing how to protect it can mean the difference between another day in the office and a data breach. By building in encryption from the beginning stages of your site, you will avoid headaches from having to bolt it on after the fact and have more tools at your disposal to keep your users secure.

11:15 AM-12:00 AM

How to keep Drupal relevant in the Git-based and API-driven CMS era

apis / beyond drupal / decoupled
Intermediate

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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.

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Building websites with React & Gatsby

site building / decoupled
Intermediate

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React started as a way to build apps. People soon discovered that React's ability to render to string meant that React could be used for building websites where shipping a fast HTML version of the site was necessary.

Gatsby is a very popular way to build websites with React and recently became a company with VC backing to take React deep into the world of CMSs.

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

Component Based Theming With UI Patterns and Pattern Lab

front end development / site building
Intermediate

Since the release of Drupal 8, great strides have been made to develop a component based theming workflow that takes advantage of the best that Twig has to offer and also plays nice with living style guides and pattern libraries. Gone are the days of redundant styles and markup, making way for the efficiencies found when Drupal and tools like Pattern Lab can share the exact same code. That said, handling the mapping of data between Drupal and your component library can still be quite complicated and difficult to coordinate on larger cross-functional teams.  

3:45 PM-4:30 PM

Config Management for Drupal Multi-site and Distributions

architecture / process / backend development
Intermediate

Drupal 8's Configuration Management System is a modern marvel. We now have a standard way to export, store, and import configuration files.

When working on a single site, built on a fresh Drupal 8 install, the process is pretty straightforward and there are many tools to help along the way.

But what if you're building lots of similar sites? Like a multi-site? Or maybe a Drupal Distribution? Or Install Profile? Or Sub-Profile? In Drupal 7 we had Features. Do we still need that?

4:45 PM-5:30 PM

Advanced Webforms

site building
Intermediate

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The Webform module for Drupal 8 provides all the features expected from an enterprise proprietary form builder combined with the flexibility and openness of Drupal. Everything and anything is customizable in the Webform module. You can build any type of form that pushes submission data to any system.

October 27

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Why fork Drupal? The philosophy behind Backdrop CMS

beyond drupal / site building / editor experience
Beginner

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Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with more features you want, and fewer you don't.

This session will highlight the Backdrop Mission, it's intended audience, and it's guiding principles.

We'll explain the decision making process, introduce the Project Management Committee, and expand on how the project's direction is set by the needs of the whole community.

11:15 AM-12:00 PM

Drupal 8 Custom Module Architecture: What’s Going On?

backend development / architecture / php
Beginner

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It is all fun and games modifying existing code, but what about when you have to venture out to unknown waters and create your own custom module? Don’t worry! We can get through this together!

This talk is a deep dive into creating custom modules from scratch, and the role of each component in the final product.

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Using Machine Learning to Augment your Content

beyond drupal / big ideas / backend development
Intermediate

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This session is about giving a practical example of how the CMS and Drupal community can put machine learning into practice by using a Drupal module, the taxonomy system, and Google's Natural Language Processing API.

We will begin with an overview of what natural language processing is and some natural language processing concepts, including:

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

The Drupal Fork: Backdrop CMS (live demo)

beyond drupal / editor experience / site building
Beginner

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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.

3:45 PM-4:30 PM