Eshleman Hall - Bay View Room, 5th floor

There are many ways to develop a Drupal site, but there are few that offer as many advantages as a fully self-contained, local environment. This training session will get hands on with setting up an environment from scratch using Docker containers to emulate production servers, Composer to manage packages, Drush to manage configuration, Drupal Console to generate code, and source code management to tie it all together. We’ll discuss the benefits of local development and the pitfalls of other methods.

Project success may be measured in KPIs, but hitting your numbers relies on understanding the people behind them.

User testing is a simple, inexpensive, and effective method for vetting our designs, prototypes, and site builds. Unfortunately, many organizations believe that user testing takes too long or requires hiring an expensive specialist consultant.

In this presentation, I’ll show how your organization can conduct its own user testing to help projects achieve success. We’ll cover…

Presenters: Amit Chourasia & David Nadeau, SDSC/UCSD

In 1868, Japan announced that it would open its doors to the world, and begin a new era of innovation and exchanging information with the world. It wasn’t just for the experience of learning, it was for the survival of the country’s traditions and culture.

Japanese companies and government continue to work together to push technology in many ways. This session will focus on how Kyoto, one of Japan’s oldest cities, is using Drupal to provide data for research as well as improve public visibility.

Testing has become an integral part of Drupal development but often it's often only focused on technical aspects and implemented at the end of the project lifecycle. 

Shift left testing is the process of moving the testing phase left of its usual position in the delivery pipeline so that it occurs as close as possible to the build process. By proactively testing integrations early and often, you can isolate most defects sooner for faster remediation, resulting in more efficient projects with higher quality.

Amazee Labs prides itself on delivering projects our clients love. Our scrum teams turn out projects like a well-oiled machine, working in tandem with a client-side PO in an agile way to gather specifications, build, test, and deploy. Rinse, repeat.

But what happens when you start working on a project which turns your way of working upside down? How do you keep your sanity and support your team while keeping your client happy?

This session is targeted to people who have experience as Drupal site-builders who are looking to get started with module development.

While there are many powerful contrib modules that do some amazing things, sometimes you will have a unique problem for which a contrib module hasn't been developed for. Ever run into a module that didn't quite do what you wanted it to do? Wish that a dropdown were checkboxes instead or vice versa? You can write a custom module that can fix those things. 

Drupal contrib has long attempted to provide page layout tools to augment what Drupal core's block placement utilities can do. Over the many years and many version of Drupal core tools like:

When building sites, customers expect the site to be optimized for search engines. The good news is that Drupal is very friendly to search engines out of the box. There are a number of modules, tools and best practices that we use on every site we build. In this session, I will talk about modules and settings you can implement while building your site to make search engine optimization even better. These tools will also give site administrators the tools they want to do all their SEO tweaking without modifying templates and needing FTP access, if possible.

Dive into an exciting adventure with Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Search API in Drupal 8. Through the notes left by great detective the audience will learn how to configure their first search view, setup Search API with database back-end module and learn concepts that go beyond core Drupal search.

The presentation will build foundation for the future learning of Search API and integration of SOLR.

The University of California System is big. Like, really really big. 10 campuses, plus a couple auxiliary units employ 21,200 academic staff, 144,000 administrative staff and serve 251,000 students.

Because of the distributed nature of the UC System, each campus has their own Drupal 7 distribution. If they were lucky. Some campuses had more than one. This was indeed the Wild West of Drupal.

The year is 2030 and between your house, your car, and all your gadgets are connected to the web. Wait. That’s today. If all we do is connected to the web today, what does that look like 20 years from now? With the rate of integration increasing at a blazing rate, what does this mean to our personal and online security? How will we be able to leverage machine learning into this and at what point does machine learning become too powerful? These are all questions we’ll have to face over the upcoming decade.