Proposed Sessions
List of all proposed sessions for the conference. Selected sessions that will appear at the conference are available on the Sessions list
| Session | Experience level | Track |
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Automated Security Reviews of Drupal Greg Knaddison |
Advanced | site building |
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Using the Migrate Module for Fewer Headaches when Relaunching a Site John Fiala |
Intermediate | development |
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Pragmatic Drupal Development John Fiala |
Beginner | development |
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Understanding CTools Page Manager Kris Vanderwater |
Intermediate | development |
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Creating a New Administration Paradigm Kris Vanderwater Administration within Drupal tends to be a monolithic structure that users must learn to navigate and utilize if they ever want to take full advantage of the platform. In addition to this, the... |
Advanced | development |
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How to Build Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7 Chris Shattuck Drupal 7 adds some nice usability tools for building pretty amazing forms from scratch. In this session, we'll start simple, introducing you to the Form API. Then, I'll showcase many of the built-... |
Intermediate | development |
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Extending Page Manager with Custom Plugins Kris Vanderwater, Jerad Bitner Custom plugins can drastically change the page_manager experience, and the velocity of your development on sites. In this session we will discuss and give examples of creating customized plugins... |
Advanced | development |
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How I Built "Build a Module.com" Chris Shattuck Build a Module.com (http://buildamodule.com) is a video tutorial site for Drupal developers, and since its release I've gotten... |
Beginner | |
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Project Management Strategies for Successful Drupal Projects Matthew Dorman |
Intermediate | business development |
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Introduction to Views: Build a Slideshow Marc Isaacson Last year I did this presentation using Drupal 6. The only contributed modules I used were Views and... |
Beginner | |
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Mobile first: Drupal and HTML5 Laura Scott Mobile is the most rapidly growing platform category for accessing and using the web. Whether with Responsive Design or dedicated mobile versions, websites and web apps need to not just consider... |
Intermediate | |
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Using Views Programmatically Jason Yee |
Intermediate | development |
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Modern Web Typography Scott Reynen, Ken Woodworth |
Beginner | design |
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I Can Haz Awesomer Scott Reynen, Joel Steidl MEOW! By popular demand, I Can Haz Awesome returns to DrupalCamp Colorado. This sequel, (don't worry if you missed the first one...think Rocky) will give you some new ideas about pimping out your... |
Beginner | |
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CSS3 and LESS: Faster, easier, more powerful CSS Ken Woodworth |
Intermediate | design |
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Drush - making everyday tasks fun again Aaron Ott, Karyn Cassio |
Intermediate | development |
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I Cant Believe Its Not Code - Making Views That Rock! Steve Kessler |
Intermediate | site building |
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HEO - Human Engine Optimization: Conversion > Traffic john Nollin There's no purpose to site traffic if you cannot convert it into your end goal. Whether it be a purchase, phone call, or an ad click, HEO, also known as CRO (conversion rate optimization), is the... |
Beginner | |
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Pre-Development Planning for Site Structure, Taxonomy, and to Build a SEO Perfect Site john Nollin In this session we will discuss how to architect a websites content, structure, hierarchy, and purpose into a meaningful work-flow that is easily managed for SEO. First, I will walk through... |
Beginner | |
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Treat Yourself like you treat Your Clients - Internal Development Projects john Nollin Web Development seems to be the only industry where we treat our own company not nearly as well as we treat our clients. Internally we don't keep deadlines, we don't put forth our best work, and... |
Beginner | |
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Drupal SEO walk through john Nollin Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps improving the volume and quality of traffic to your web site from search engines via "organic" search results.When optimizing a website, you should consider... |
Beginner | |
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Getting started with Drupal Matt Tucker |
Beginner | site building |
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Basics of Search Engine Optimization: Making Your Drupal Site SEO Friendly While Improving Your Online Presence John Donnelly, Patricia Woloch |
Beginner | site building |
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Doing More With Drupal (Using contributed modules) Ben Hosmer Drupal core includes some great functionality right out of the box, however to truly make it awesome, you need to find, install, and then use the thousands of contributed modules created for... |
Beginner | community |
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Debugging Drupal Chris Pitchford Do not fear the White Screen of Death! Debugging stops problems before they start, finds issues buried deep in code, and can help you work faster and smarter. Drupal development is an awesome... |
Intermediate | development |
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Zero to Drupal in minutes Ben Hosmer One of the most daunting tasks to a beginner can be actually configuring a web server and getting Drupal installed. This session will use webenabled to create a Drupal site in minutes and then... |
Beginner | community |
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Cross Browser and Platform Video with VideoJS Ben Hosmer With the popularity of ios devices and different browsers supporting different types of video formats, it becomes difficult to support video on your Drupal site. This session will demonstrate the... |
Beginner | community |
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How Much Is This Baby Gonna Cost Me? Seth Brown, Jerad Bitner This session will examine common approaches to estimation, and, in particular, the technique of Wideband Delphi Estimation that Lullabot uses in its sales engineering process. It also talks about... |
Intermediate | business development |
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PPLD.org - An Odyssey Virginia Franklyn Join Pikes Peak Library District on an adventure as we recount our journey from an html-based website to Drupal 6 goodness. We'll cover Project Plans, Configuration, Usability Studies, and the... |
Beginner | development |
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Custom RSS Feeds in Drupal Jeff Shamley Ditch the core RSS functionality and build highly customisable syndication in Drupal 7! |
Beginner | design |
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Design in the Browser: Use CSS to Stop Lying to Ourselves and Our Clients Mason Wendell |
Intermediate | design |
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An Introduction to Drupal Commerce Ryan Szrama |
Beginner | commerce |
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Introduction to Rules for Drupal Commerce Randy Fay Rules is a powerful web-ui based programming language that allows Drupal to take certain actions when an event occurs. Rules is a fundamental tool... |
Intermediate | commerce |
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Sales Tax, Discounts and Rules in Drupal Commerce Randy Fay |
Intermediate | commerce |
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Easy Steps to Creating a Dynamic Workflow Erin O'Flaherty This session will go through each step that needs to be done in Drupal to create a successful workflow. It will be broken down in such a way that anyone with basic Drupal experience will be able... |
Beginner | |
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Project & Development Best Practices: Good Cop/Bad Cop Rick Nashleanas, Bryan Jones, Caleb Thorne This presentation takes a good cop/bad cop approach to project management and development best practices. We will poll the audience on the topics they would like us to cover. If there's anything... |
Intermediate | business development |
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Drupal Commerce Nuts and Bolts Ryan Szrama |
Advanced | commerce |
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Drupal Commerce Contrib Ryan Szrama, Randy Fay As Drupal Commerce gets closer to a final 1.0 release, the development of contributed modules providing "essential non-core features" has been ramping up. There are currently dozens of projects... |
Beginner | commerce |
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Engineering for the 80%, too. Jen Lampton, Karoly Negyesi |
Advanced | development |
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Introduction to Module Development Ezra Barnett Gildesgame 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... |
Beginner | development |
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Building Conference & Event Websites with COD Ezra Barnett Gildesgame |
Beginner | business development |
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The 10 Commandments of Photoshop Mockups John Ferris |
Intermediate | design |
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Preying on the drupal_alter() Matt Kleve
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Beginner | development |
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Render API - Defining and manipulating renderable arrays in Drupal 7 Joe Shindelar |
Intermediate | development |
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The Client Perspective on Website Development and Operation Tony Merschdorf, Rick Nashleanas |
Beginner | business development |
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Debugging Techniques for Drupal and LAMP Robert Ristroph |
Intermediate | development |
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Importing a store into Drupal Commerce Randy Fay |
Intermediate | commerce |
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PCI: A Four-Letter Word of E-Commerce Matt Kleve, Rachel Makrucki, Mike Potter The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a widely accepted set of policies and procedures intended to optimize the security of credit, debit and cash card transactions and... |
Intermediate | commerce |
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Introduction to Views for Drupal 7 Greg Knaddison |
Beginner | site building |
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Sustainable Theming with Fusion Stephanie Pakrul, Sheena Donnelly Don't theme yourself into a corner. We built Fusion after years of feedback from designers, site builders, clients, and developers. It's a powerful and supported base theme, with layout and style... |
Intermediate | design |
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Collaboration and contribution in the Drupal ecosphere: Being active in the community Ben Jeavons It's not enough to just use Drupal, modules, themes, or support anymore. To excel your personal expertise and grow your business you have to be active and collaborate. ... |
Beginner | community |
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Introduction to Drupal Theming Carl Wiedemann |
Beginner | design |
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Theme preprocess functions: an Introduction Carl Wiedemann |
Intermediate | design |
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(not so) Silly Tricks for Content Managers Mike Potter This session will focus on tips and tricks for building great Drupal sites that your Content Managers will love. Content Managers will use your site everyday, so learn to build sites that give... |
Beginner | business development |
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How to setup a Drupal Development Environment for Windows John Fiala |
Beginner | development |
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The Ultimate Marketing “Module” Benjamin Patch, Adam Zeidler, Dani Renaud If there was only that one perfect module which would drive endless amounts of highly targeted traffic to your Drupal websites. The truth is, when it comes to marketing your Drupal sites to the... |
Intermediate | business development |
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Workbench: Managing Content Management Dave Reid Our clients often come to Drupal with expectations about the features of a content management system (CMS). In many cases, Drupal handles the features they expect. However, not all editorial tools... |
Intermediate | community |
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Earning Your Family Tech Support Merit Badge Amye Scavarda The Family Tech Support Merit Badge has a long history with web |
Beginner | business development |
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Keeping The Lights On - Operations and Monitoring Best Practices Trent Hein, Greg Knaddison, Ned McClain |
Intermediate | development |
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Usability Findings: What do users have to say about Drupal 7? Brad Bowman, Jen Lampton, Bojhan Somers Three years after our first round of formal usability testing on Drupal 6, UX team did another series of testing to uncover usability issues with Drupal 7. The intent of the session is to... |
Beginner | design |
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Working with Clients and Keeping Your Sanity Justin Toupin |
Beginner | business development |
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How to launch a successful website: Drupal project management for end clients Mike O'Connor According to the Standish Group, only 30% of web projects are successful. If you have ever launched a web site or worked with a web development company, you are familiar with the challenges of... |
Beginner | business development |
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The State of e-Commerce in Drupal7 Tim Rohaly, Mike O'Connor There’s a lot happening in the Drupal e-Commerce world. Spend an hour learning about pros and cons of Ubercart, Drupal Comemrce, and other e-Commerce options in Drupal 7, in a friendly and... |
Beginner | commerce |
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D7 + Commerce, a site builders dream Will Vincent, Mike O'Connor Learn the ins and outs of building e-Commerce sites with Drupal 7 + Drupal Commerce from Will Vincent(The Nerdery), and Mike O'Connor(Commerce Guys), as they share their experiences from a joint... |
Intermediate | commerce |
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Git with the program Larry Garfield You want to contribute code to Drupal. Great! But how? What's this Git thing people are talking about that you seem to need to know how to use? You just want to write Drupal code, dagnabbit!... |
Intermediate | development |
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Concurrency in Drupal Tim Rohaly Concurrency is a topic that isn't often considered by Drupal module developers, because it doesn't affect "typical" Drupal applications such as blogs. But when it matters, it can't be ignored.... |
Advanced | development |
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Ubercart for Drupal 7 Tim Rohaly Ubercart has been the pre-eminent commerce solution for Drupal for more than three years. Now it's even better, more flexible and more capable; the new Drupal 7 version has been enhanced to... |
Beginner | commerce |
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Ubercart contributed modules: Strategies for reuse Tim Rohaly Despite their vastly different architectures, many contributed modules written for Ubercart have potential to be reused in Commerce. Chief among these are shipping and payment modules, which... |
Intermediate | commerce |
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Drupalcon Denver: The journey so far, the peak to summit Drupalcon is coming to Denver in March of 2012. Come get up-to-speed with where we're at in planning it, what you can do to shape it, and what we all can do to make it the best Drupalcon ever! |
Beginner | community |
When you're building your next Drupal project, The chances are pretty good that at some point you'll find Drupal is... 
