Modern Workflows for Modern Devs (half day training)
With Docker finally hitting its stride as a viable local development tool we’ve seen a huge surge in Docker Compose driven local development and DevOps tools.
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October 24
9:00 AM–1:00 PM
1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Navigating the Issue Queue - A beginner's guide to contribution (half day training)
Many Drupallers dream of contributing to the Drupal project. But where do you begin? And more importantly, what are some of the tools you use to navigate the adventure successfully?
In this half-day training, we will discuss why contribution to open source is important and look at some of the tools necessary for working in the Drupal issue queue as a new contributor.
October 25
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Object Oriented PHP
With the move to Drupal 8 everyone who works in the PHP layer will be exposed to more and more to object oriented code.
Come learn the basics of working with objects in PHP and how OOP can help you to write well structured code.
October 26
10:15 AM-11:00 AM
Case Study: Massive performance wins at Mass.gov
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Over the past year, Last Call Media has been working with the development team at Massachusetts Digital Services on improving the stability and performance of the mass.gov platform. One phase of this journey was to realize some massive performance gains on both the front and the back end of the site. In the first part of this session, we’ll talk about the backend performance, discussing:
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How we used Blackfire and New Relic to identify issues
11:15 AM-12:00 AM
Decouple Pattern Lab from your D8 theme (SF.gov)
front end development / case study
How and why to decouple your Pattern lab from your theme. In this case study I will be talking about the decisions taken in the architecture of this solution for the City of San Francisco.
https://github.com/SFDigitalServices/sfgov-pattern-lab
1:30 PM-2:15 PM
What's for Dinner? Using Predictive UX to Help Users Decide
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Making decisions is difficult. To put this into perspective, picture yourself trying to decide what’s for dinner. You go on your favorite meal ordering app to find something which offers you hundreds of options that you have to browse through and choose from. Now imagine that same application could predict what you’re in the mood for and display only those options, without you having to do a thing!
2:30 PM-3:15 PM
Drupal 8 Configuration System Basics
backend development / process / drupal core
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The Drupal 8 configuration system can provide great advantages to managing the configuration of a site, but it can also cause massive headaches if used improperly. This presentation will provide an overview of how the Drupal 8 configuration system works, best practices on basic workflows to utilize it effectively, and a small sampling of some of the contributed modules available to enhance it.
3:45 PM-4:30 PM
Designing for Drupal: Tips & Tricks for a Clean, User-Friendly Website
design / ux / content strategy
Pivoting in a Project: Strategies for adjusting to scope changes
project management / process / big ideas
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4:45 PM-5:30 PM
Advanced Webforms
site building
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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.