Sessions

This is a list of selected sessions for DrupalCamp Colorado 2010. The schedule is available at http://drupalcampcolorado.org/schedule. You can also view an un-paginated list of all the proposed sessions at http://drupalcampcolorado.org/sessions/all.

  • Advanced User Profiles in Drupal

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Track:
    Development

    Don't let the title fool you!
    Drupal profiles can be simple and intuitive for both users and developers. This session will cover steps for setting up attractive (and functional) user profiles in Drupal. We'll start with a quick overview of the Content Profile module and then discuss theming strategies to make the profiles attractive and easy. Finally we'll take a look some of the profile changes coming up in Drupal 7.

  • Selling Drupal

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Business

    Do you ever feel frustrated trying to sell your Drupal expertise/services? Has your excitement for Drupal not translated into more customers? Do you struggle filling up your pipeline and planning for future growth? In this session you will learn some ways to improve your Drupal sales method and process. The session will focus on developing and executing a strategy to bring in a constant flow of leads and customers. We're all tired of traditional sales "trickery", but we still need to find new clients.

  • Lunch

    Track:
    Community

    Lunch is provided at the venue for you only if you have not marked that you will skip the venue lunch. If you plan to go off-site for lunch please let us know by updating your Edit account page at http://drupalcampcolorado.org/user so we can avoid having wasted food.

    Pasta feast with accommodations for vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free clearly marked.

  • Breaking into a Drupal Site - Everyone learns to be scared, devs learn to fix

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Track:
    Development

    This session will focus on using security vulnerabilities to break into a Drupal site.

    We'll look at some of the most common vulnerability types and how to exploit them. My feeling is that if people don't know how to break into their site they won't know whether or not they are vulnerable (or whether they've fixed the vulnerabilities).

    This session will be similar to previous sessions I've given on this topic including:

    • XSS: still the number one security issue in Drupal
  • Registration checkin

    Track:
    Community

    Attendees must stop by the registration checkin tables the morning of the event to receive their badge.

    Coffe, tea, and pastries will be available.

  • Introduction to Views: Build a slideshow

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Track:
    Development

    This session will walk beginners step-by-step through the process of creating a slideshow using views and a few other contributed modules.

    Some of the things we will look at:

    • Installing the views module
    • Installing the views_slideshow module
    • Creating custom content types
    • Creating a block display for the view
    • Creating an attachment for the view
    • Configuring the slide show settings to create different effects

    I will have already picked some images to use in my slide show prior to the presentation; you should, too.

  • Module developers toolkit

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Track:
    Development

    Module development in drupal can be kind of scary... unless you have the right tools.

    This session will go into the modules and outside tools that will make any developer's life that much easier.

    Session slides: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfd4vgps_2grmddvd3

  • The top 10 things I wish someone would have told me about Drupal

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Track:
    Development

    A walkthrough of 10 issues I ran into while building and developing in Drupal that caused me to bang my head against the keyboard or stare at the screen blankly for hours.

    This is an interactive demonstration of various Drupal challenges, more stepping through issues I've overcome in various aspects of Drupal configuration, development and theming, and less staring at Powerpoint slides and listening to me talk.

  • Building on Solr Search

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Development

    Using Solr Search to replace the core Drupal search is an exciting and easy way to make search better on your site, but often there's a need to expand on what's provided out of the box.

  • Creating a new administration paradigm

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Development

    Drupal's current administration system is largely monolithic, come see how we can break these administration tools down into more contextually relevant administration interfaces on demand, and how we can make administering drupal sites easy for the uninitiated.

    Utilizing the context_admin module, we'll delve into the potential for contextually relevant administration in your drupal 6 sites today, how to "take" these administrations with you via Features and show some examples of the current module's existing capabilities.

    These capabilities include:

    • Creating Specific Types of Content
    • Administering Specific Types of Content
    • Editing Taxonomy Terms From Their Pages
    • Administering Entire Vocabularies (edit, add term, list terms)
    • Automatic Node Referencing
    • Menu Sub Pages
    • Creating Users

    If time permits we'll even discuss the plugin architecture for building your own administrative tools.