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.

  • Drupal in Prison

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Business

    By the time Drupalcamp Colorado begins, the Colorado Department of Corrections will roll out their new Drupal web site and intranet.

  • Small Shops and Freelancers: How to Cultivate and Nourish Fruitful Relationships

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Business

    It’s not the big that eat the small; it’s the fast that eat the slow. Partnering with a small shop or freelancer can give your organization the flexibility and speed it needs to succeed, but it can be difficult to find skilled, dependable contractors.

  • Introduction to Module Development

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Track:
    Development

    This session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on, and covers topics like Drupal's hook system and the Form API.

  • Site Configuration Management (and staging) using Features Module

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Track:
    Development

    Click here for presentation slides.

    One of the biggest challenges in the Drupal world is managing, staging, and controlling our site configuration. Everything is in the database, and it's hard to control a database in a file-based source-code management environment.

    Features module comes to our rescue here. We can bundle up our site's configuration, save it to a module, and source control it.

  • Drupal 101: Drupal Basics

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Track:
    Development

    A VERY entry level look at Drupal, to allow you learn all you can here at Drupal Camp Colorado.

    • How to install Drupal
    • How NOT to kill kittens (and what that means)
    • Enabling some of Drupal's core functionality
    • Installing contributed modules and themes
    • Dealing with users
    • The basics of permissions and roles

    This is a session intended to be the very entry level look at the Hot Sauce that is Drupal.

  • Panel: Most Baffling Bugs & Debugging strategies

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Development

    This (still forming) panel of Drupal experts will present short case studies on the most challenging, confusing or baffling bugs they've ever debugged, and share the strategies they used to investigate the problem, the root cause, and the solutions they ultimately reached.

  • Drupal Commerce: Setting up Shop on Drupal 7

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Development

    Drupal Commerce is the next generation e-commerce module suite for Drupal 7. The project is a re-implementation of Ubercart's core feature set on Drupal 7 using the best new core Drupal features and depending on the strongest Drupal contributions.

  • I CAN HAZ AWESOME? -- Advanced Theming Techniques

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Design

    If you're theming in Drupal without using tools like CSS Preprocessors, Semantic Views, or Skinr, you're missing out on a lot of awesome. We'll walk you through some of this awesome and also show you some kittens.

  • Advanced Views and CCK

    Skill Level:
    Intermediate
    Track:
    Development

    So you've added a few fields to some content types.
    AND you've created some views to list them out.
    That really is extremely cool, BUT there is so much more you can do with CCK+CIEWS.
    We're going to look into the awesome combination of NODE_REFERENCE and VIEWFIELD modules to dynamically tie nodes together and render fields from not only a specific node but also fields from related nodes.
    I will be showing how I used this powerful relationship and rendering method to power some of the trickier pages on http://leonard.com

  • HTML5 in Drupal

    Skill Level:
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced
    Track:
    Design

    HTML5 is the future of the web and you can start using it in Drupal today. In this session, we'll cover:

    • What's new and awesome in HTML5
    • What's safe to use today (and what's not)
    • Using HTML5 on Drupal sites

    You should leave the session excited and ready to start using HTML5.