DrupalCon DC 2009

The Path to Richer Text: Input Format Improvements in Drupal 7
David Rothstein

Adding input formats to main permissions lists -- this role can use this input format. Not quite in D7 core yet.

Warnings on permissions page for allowing unsafe formats? New patch needed.

Must get rid of allowing setting of site-wide default text format.

Weights on input formats

Keynote: Our Online Identity
Chris Messina

Social Web, Cloud computing, and its discontents

Our Online Identies, My Online Identity, I am Mine, I am You

Web 2.0: WTF?

• "Build applications that harnes network effects -- to get better, the more people use them." (O'Reilly)

Rules

Project Management For Fun and Profit
Crystal Williams

The Talking Stage

• There is no shortcut
• Clients are the experts on their needs, though they don't always know how to express that, but your'e the expert on getting them there. Show what you know, but listen.
• You can't afford to save time on planning or communication.

Process

Selling You and Your (Drupal) Services
Neil Giarratana

True genius is pulling threads out of the ether, and giving them reality. "Oh wow, nobody's ever said that?"

If you do the right thing, winning takes care of itself.

What you're selling is invisible.

The true product of a business is the business itself.

Promiscuous Drupal: Building Your Site With Web APIs
Jeff Eaton

How many folks in this room came to Drupal after trying to build their own CMS? Quite a few... Drupal tends to emphasize homegrown, native solutions to everything.

"Drupal: the blogging software with the worst forum software built-in." -- Walkah

CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do!
Karen Stevenson and Alex Barth from Development Seed

Drush - command line Drupal productivity
Moshe Weitzman and Owen Barton
 

Front/Back End Performance – Make Your Website Lightning Fast
Konstantin Käfer (Front End) and Khalid Baheyeldin (Back End)

Front End Performance

• how user perceives?
• how fast website is loaded?
• how fast the page loads?
• how well the page performs after it's loaded?

styles, scripts, images account for 80% of load time

background images, images, other media, html, css, scripts, other media...

Building a Frankenstein monster & how to maintain it
morton.dk

 Setup: ideal

• clients give you enough time to get the job done
• the clients don't bitch about small stuff, and pays in advance
• wire framing is complete! "nothing's gonna change, ever!"

Setup: reality

A Paradigm for Reusable Drupal Features
Young Hahn, Robert Soden, Ian Ward (DevelopmentSeed)