For Drupal users, admins, developers, and the curious. To facilitate collaboration and support around the use of Drupal in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.
Promiscuous Drupal: Building Your Site With Web APIs (DrupalCon DC 2009 notes)
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! (DrupalCon DC 2009 notes)
CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do!
Karen Stevenson and Alex Barth from Development Seed
Drush - command line Drupal productivity (DrupalCon DC 2009 notes)
Drush - command line Drupal productivity
Moshe Weitzman and Owen Barton
Front/Back End Performance – Make Your Website Lightning Fast (DrupalCon DC 2009 notes)
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 (DrupalCon DC 2009 notes)
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
Optimizing your LAMP stack for Drupal (DrupalCon 2009 notes)
Performance and Scalability: Optimizing your LAMP stack for Drupal
Eric Mandel
Performance
- different things to different people
- amount of useful work accomplished by system, compared to resources used
- however you define the atomic unit of measurement -- that one thing -- it's generally how fast can you do it.
- in a web app, how fast can you serve something (a page) to a user?
Scalability
OpenID, Drupal and the Open Web, (DrupalCon 2009 notes)
OpenID, Drupal and the Open Web
James Walker
He's given this talk before, but all of a sudden (months) things have gotten more interesting
today: "web 2.0"
All of these various sites where we need to recreate identity and relationships
password antipattern
giving out passwords for other sites -- you've given facebook access to all of your Gmail, Google Docs, etc?!
Drupal Module Development Kickstart (DrupalCon 2009 notes)
Developing Modules kick-Start
Gábor Hojtsy and Peter Wolanin
This is about developing modules, but if you can find a module that's already out there and being developed, use it!
if you can avoid custom code or modifying, build the right way and use existing code when available
Change almost anything without hacking core.
What is a module?
