Theme Development
Are you struggling with Drupal 8 theming? New to Drupal or Drupal 8? Let's take it from the top! This hands on training will take you step-by-step through the process of creating a custom theme in Drupal 8.
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October 24
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
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
9:00 AM-9:45 AM
Drupal 8 Migration Strategy: How to Be a Resource for Your Team
content strategy / process
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Is your team gearing up to migrate a site into Drupal 8? In this presentation, I’ll walk through the steps I’ve taken to prep my developer for a Drupal 8 migration. Topics covered will include the following:
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
Don't fear templates! Using Twig templates with Nodes, Views, and the new Layout Initiative
front end development
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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
4:45 PM-5:30 PM
Configuration Workflow Automation
site building / process / devops
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Configuration management has only gotten more complex as Drupal 8 has matured. With Config 2.0 going full speed ahead, some improvements are coming. Unfortunately, our dream of being able to save configuration directly to files won't happen, and the community has created complex workflows to work around the problem of storing configuration in the database.
But, the workflow has been automated for you in Contrib.