Session Schedule

Title Speaker(s) Session Description Experience levelsort ascending Track Date and time Room
Provisioning Proper Development Environments cyberswat

In this session I will introduce you to several concepts that generally fall under the phrase DevOps.  I will show you how to reliable create on demand development environments for use in your Drupal experiments and client work.  We will explore the shiny side of impressive buzz words l

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 11:30 to 12:15 Room 205
Rolling your own Entities in Drupal 7 jcfiala

One of the interesting and powerful tools in the Drupal 7 toolbox is the concept of entities - a fieldable chunk of data in the system which isn't a node or a user, but is similar.

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 10:30 to 11:15 Room 204
Drush - do I really have to use it? greggles

This session will touch on some of the ways using drush can become absolutely your favorite tool for working in drupal. 

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 16:00 to 16:45 Room 204
Mistakes Agencies Make sethlbrown

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/sethlbrown/mistakes-agencies-make

Intermediate Business and Open Source Sun, 2013-06-30 10:30 to 11:15 Room 206
Simple Recurring Subscriptions with Recurly quicksketch

Recurring billing is hard! Recurly helps you focus on your site content by eliminating the need for a Drupal-based commerce system.

Intermediate Commerce Sun, 2013-06-30 11:30 to 12:15 Room 206
Dapper Drupal - Custom Tailored Themes killtheliterate

Base themes are a great place to start when you’re first getting into theming. As you grow as a front-end developer, you’ll find your old standby base theme no longer fits. You’re a grown up now; it’s time to dress to the nines.

Why build a base theme?

Intermediate Design and Front End Sun, 2013-06-30 15:00 to 15:45 Room 205
CiviCRM for Developers, Site Builders, and Themers kreynen

This will be a variation of the session I gave about the advantages of using CiviCRM as part of Drupal Distribution at CiviCon in April.  That sessions was aimed at getting the CiviCRM

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 14:00 to 14:45 Room 204
Current state of Media and File entity 2.x Dave Reid

Dave will give an update on the progress of the 2.x branches of the Media and File entity modules, what features are new from 1.x, how to configure the modules to work together, and how you can help the modules get to 2.0 official releases.

Objectives and Outcomes:

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 11:30 to 12:15 Room 204
Creating tests to ensure sanity aaronott

In this session we will talk about building tests for Drupal.

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 15:00 to 15:45 Room 204
Varnish in a Bleeding-edge Drupal Stack: A Case Study Zlender, alasda

Varnish is renowned to be one of the simplest and most effective methods of improving site performance and reducing server infrastructure overhead.

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 11:30 to 12:15 Room 205
Naming things: The crucial part of OOP that you're ignoring msonnabaum

Most everyone has heard the quote about there being "two hard things in Computer Science," but I often see this used as a reason to live with bad names.

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 15:00 to 15:45 Room 206
CU-Boulder: What we have and what we're creating ultimateboy

The University of Colorado Boulder is attempting to standardize on Drupal.

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sun, 2013-06-30 10:30 to 11:15 Room 205
Rewriting the Drupal theme layer c4rl

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UPDATE: Slides from this session here: http://www.slideshare.net/c4rl/rewriting-the-drupal-theme-layer

Intermediate Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 16:00 to 16:45 Room 205
Let's Talk About PCI Compliance for Drupal rickmanelius

Drupal makes it incredibly easy to turn even the simplest website into a full fledged commerce solution. All you have to do is download a few modules, check a few boxes, and you’re up and running in no time!

Beginner Commerce Sat, 2013-06-29 16:00 to 16:45 Room 206
Commerce Beyond the Cart SteveKessler

Drupal Commerce is often thought of as tool for creating shopping carts.  It does not have to stop there.  In this session we will look at how to use Drupal Commerce to transact on items like services and invoices.  We will start by looking at the landscape of modules to use and th

Beginner Commerce Sat, 2013-06-29 11:30 to 12:15 Room 206
Beginning module building for PHP developers jcrespo

Overview

Instead of the first obligatory "Hello World" module, we will create a new module that improves the display of a popular module. 

Beginner Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 10:30 to 11:15 Room 204
Y U Mad? Solving Drupal Problems the Fun Way sreynen, kid_icarus

Nobody makes a perfect Drupal site on the first try. The difference between beginner and experienced Drupal developers has less to do with avoiding problems, and more to do with solving the problems that inevitably come up.

Beginner Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 14:00 to 14:45 Room 204
Drupal and Lean Startup Methodology - a match made in heaven greggles

The Lean Startup is so popular it's becoming passe, but there are valuable lessons worth learning.

Beginner Business and Open Source Sun, 2013-06-30 14:00 to 14:45 Room 206
Real customers giving us real feedback Rick Nashleanas

Slides are located at http://goo.gl/5itGk.

Beginner Business and Open Source Sat, 2013-06-29 14:00 to 14:45 Room 206
Introduction to Drupal Security vordude

Slides: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10444689/IntroToDrupalSecurity.pdf

The Internet can be a scary place.

Staying safe when creating your custom modules, and building your sites is essential to creating a secure and stable website in Drupal.

Beginner Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 15:00 to 15:45 Room 204
Design Smarter, Not Harder kenwoodworth

Slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/kenwoodworth/design-smarter-not-harder

 

Beginner Design and Front End Sat, 2013-06-29 15:00 to 15:45 Room 205
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Views stevejburge

When it comes to making a Drupal site really work, no module is more essential than Views.

In fact, Views is so critical to a Drupal site's success that it is being incorporated into Drupal 8.

Beginner Development and Site Building Sat, 2013-06-29 11:30 to 12:15 Room 204
Theming Ain't Easy but It's Necessary ryanblyth

View Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ryanblyth/partials-andresuablecomponents

Beginner Design and Front End Sat, 2013-06-29 10:30 to 11:15 Room 205
Herding the Cats, Keeping the Focus MatthewS

It is DrupalCamp Colorado, time for sitting around the campfire cooking up a dutch oven of franks and beans or making smores. We've reached round up time, complete with barrel racing, mutton busting, calf tying, and the most challenging of all cat herding.

Beginner Business and Open Source Sat, 2013-06-29 15:00 to 15:45 Room 206
Bite-sized Contribution ezra-g

This session encourages everyone to become involved -- or to get more actively involved -- in participating in the Drupal Community by discussing common objections that people who are new to Drupal often raise.

Beginner Business and Open Source Sat, 2013-06-29 10:30 to 11:15 Room 206