As an agency we are constantly challenged to optimise our efforts – resources to grow and some time even survive.
So what really works?
Do we need to focus on a few practical tactics or a mid to long- term strategy?
In this presentation I would walk through these question in context of our journey so far.
We will use this slot to hold our annual AGM.
We will be electing new members to the committee.
We hope to see you all there!
Having ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder makes performing on the job very tough. Not too many people understand how difficult it can be to do some very basic tasks as a daily standup meeting or watching sessions at DrupalCon.
During this session I will share some very handy tips on how I tackled ADD during my career and how it can help others who suffer from this disorder as well.
A high level overview of the session;
Testing is important. Why? It allows developers to add new features and edit and refactor existing code without the worry of adding regressions, reduces the reliance on manual testing to discover bugs, and by taking a test driven approach, your implementation code is leaner as you only write what is needed for your tests to pass.
You’ve built your website, and now you just need to deploy it. There are various ways that this could be done - from (S)FTP, to SCP and rsync, to running commands like “git pull” and “composer install” directly on the server (not recommended).
I'm part of the team delivering what was originally a new theme for Drupal Core. It has since expanded to be an "Out of the Box" initiative to develop an experimental installation profile, complete with sample content, for a (fictional) magazine website called Umami.
There's a lot involved in getting such a large project into Drupal Core (hopefully 8.5). Come learn abour the present state of the initiative and how you can help.
www.athenryac.com was originally built in Drupal 4.6, and has been upgraded along the way to the current iteration on Drupal 7.
Rather than just do an upgrade to Drupal 8 - we'll do a rebuild using the best that Drupal 8 has to offer, and use he new migrate API to import the content into the new architecture - leaving the cruft build up over 12 years behind.
The foundation of the web is HTML, CSS, and JS. Let's get back to where we started.
Stop me if this sounds familiar: your client signs off on designs created in Photoshop/Sketch (or some other image generation-tool). You build a website for them based on these designs. It looks quite like the designs, but not exactly like them. It's not your fault. It's not the client's fault. But wouldn't it be nice if you could build exactly what the client signed off?
In this session I'll look at lambasting my most hated design tool - Photoshop. In short:
With a core initiative focused on improving support for multiple languages in Drupal, Drupal 8 offers much more out of the box for building multilingual sites. It is much more powerful and offers greater flexibility than Drupal 7, and all without the need for the i18n contrib module!