With less than a week until the camp, here is a preview of what to expect from our team!
Everyone here at NEWMEDIA is extremely enthusiastic about this year’s DrupalCamp Colorado, which will be held on August 1st-3rd in Denver. This year’s theme for the camp is “Large Scale Drupal” where the focus is on how larger organizations can become more collaborative with the Drupal community by pooling ideas and resources together to solve common issues they are facing. There will be a wide variety sessions this year, six of which will be presented by members of NEWMEDIA. We are also very excited about being a Platinum sponsor.
Drupal 8 Module Development: Just the Basics
Start off this years DrupalCamp Colorado right and jump into Drupal 8 module development. Brandon Williams will cover the basics of Symphony and the Drupal 8 module, including a review of what has replaced some of the most common hooks from D7. Brandon is an advocate for learning and change and in the technological world we experience that invariably. While Drupal 7 will be the best option for the short-term, it is never too early to dive in to D8.
Jenkins 101: A Drupal Perspective
Want to know more about Jenkins from a Drupal perspective and have a better understanding on how Jenkins can be applied to multiple processes? Then you should join Brandon in his second session that will introduce Jenkins from a Drupal perspective and how it has been proven to be beneficial within NEWMEDIA. As a community we can take this knowledge and continue the conversation to help emerge the tools to permit everyone to become more effective.
Securing customers credit card data
Security for your clients credit cards is now a necessity in today’s growing eCommerce market. Rick Manelius will review all of the parts of the standard that apply to Drupal along with providing efficient advice on how to best reduce one’s risk when processing credit cards. As the amount of eCommerce transactions continues to rise it becomes even more critical to support every part in the system. If you would like more information on PCI compliance for Drupal visit DrupalPCICompliance.org you can also download the free, community sponsored white paper.
The SCSSy Wild West: Partial Organization for a Complete Site
Take a look at Tim’s blog Partial to Partials: BoF Recap for a recap of last years session about the organization of partials. This year Tim Whitney will go over a partial layout strategy for all scales of Drupal and non Drupal. Going over common pain points of SCSS partials and how to alleviate them while including approaches to help make life a little easier for everyone.
Integration Testing with KitchenCI & Multiple Provisioners
“Works on my machine” is no longer an acceptable reason for a Drupal site to not perform as expected across multiple environment (i.e. production, staging, development, and local development). This is particularly important as projects become larger, more complex, and have stringent requirements on performance, uptime, and security. Kevin Bridge’s presentation will start with the basics of “Infrastructure as Code” and then quickly ramp up to review how to use provisioning tools and integration tests to ensure your infrastructure is achieving the desired state.
Intro to Frontend Ops
Discover the tools that help frontend developers stay consistent as they develop their drupal themes. This discussion from Ryan McVeigh will focus on gruntjs and bower and will also discuss Gulp JS, Phantomjs, PageSpeed, and Slimer JS. You will be able to watch some of his pre-recorded demos of the tools in action. Come and join in on the discussion and see how the use of these various tools can contribute to your routine work day.
Come Join Us!
There is still time to sign up for this weekend and better yet it is free with the option to donate. Any registration contributions beyond DrupalCamp Colorado’s budget target will be donated to 3 charities: The Ada Initiative, Code.org, and Electronic Frontier Foundation. This weekend has a great full-day Training Day on August 1st and will be offering three separate classes you can pay and sign up for.