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This session familiarized attendees with the tools and processes used to manage development, QA, and production of Drupal projects. Speakers Michelle Lauer (@lauermichelle) and Christopher Pliakas (@cpliakas) presented some solutions for developing a site in multiple environments. I only blogged the part of Christopher. Michelle went too fast to keep up with, I attached the slides so you can read her very useful presentation with lots of examples and tips. read more »

Enterprise - The Cost of Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Narayan Newton (Server Coordinate for Drupal.org) discussed the challenges of team and site management in an enterprise Drupal environment.

Topics included

• Subversion management of a large Drupal installation, with multiple branches and tags for development and deployment.
• Testing newly developed modules and patches for deployment
• Managing a large distributed team of developers
• Managing Drupal upgrades and specifically an upgrade to Drupal 6.X

The presenters read more »

Or: what RDF might do for Drupal

The keynote session of DrupalCon day 4 is presented by Dan Brickley (@danbri) and is about Semantic Web. Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies.read more »

His talk showed in practice how the full 1989 vision for the Web is being realised using RDF-based technologies (RDF/RDFa, SKOS, SPARQL, FOAF, OWL), and how the two concepts of information linking, and information layering are all you really need to understand a powerful suite of tools and standards for Web-based data sharing.

Four Kitchens co-founder David Strauss has gained world-class Drupal experience from his work with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, The Economist, Mansueto Ventures, Lifetime TV, NBC-Universal, and the Internet Archive.

What's can Drupal 7 bring us?

The topics below are alle new in D7. They all help making Drupal 7 better, whether it is by improving performance or improving scalabilty. read more »

Konstantin Käfer and Wim Leers presented some tips on how to improve the performance of Drupal.

A very important part of the speed experience is direct result. Users want to see results very quickly. It is therefore better to let a page display something (and let the rest download gradually) instead of displaying the completely downloaded page at once.

Optimizing Drupal, MySQL Apache to squeeze out the last drop is a good idea. Server side performance only impacts the time until the HTML code is generated, but the vast par of loading time is spent on retrieving CSS, JavaScript and image files. To get a truly zippy website, it is therefore vital to drastically reduce the time spent here.read more »

Roel de Meester of Krimson presented zbyemn24k5 ihacesz3yr some business cases of Aegir. What do you need it for? And what are its advantages? The keynote of the session is "How to lose your clients - and the 5 ingredients to make them feel good about it". The idea of this keynote is that you make clients happier if they can do some (mostly difficult) tasks themselves, like creating sites. Making clients happy is always a good thing, so I'm interested!read more »

webchick, one of Drupal's core developers and co-maintainers of Drupal7, presented all the new stuff in Drupal7. What's new, why is it done, and how was it before? This is a list of the biggest improvements so far:read more »

Today is the first real DrupalCon day. With 25 sessions spread over five tracks there is enough to see for everyone. Yesterday was a great day to start the DrupalCon. I met lots of people, wrote two core patches during the sprint (#562284: Decreasing the spacing on <li> in listing items and #563550: Change "create new revision" check box), and attended the Acquia Partner Day session. read more »

My employer, Sogeti, is the largest Acquia service provider in the Netherlands. Because I wanted to know what value we could bring each other, I attended the Drupal Partner Day at the DrupalCon. Bryan House, Marketing Director of Acquia, started his presentation with an Update on Acquia Channel Business (current customers, leads and revenues).

As a reminder, this is Acquia's Value Proposition:

Acquia offers expertise, technical support and cloud-based hosting and Network services to help Drupal site owners cost effectively operate social publishing websites. read more »

Viva la France! Tomorrow I will pack my backs and leave for Paris, to attend the DrupalCon 2009. Last Friday Bryan House of Acquia contacted me if I still needed a DrupalCon ticket (which I was looking for in the last few weeks). He connected me with some others, and via robertDouglass I eventually got derhasi's ticket for the early bird price! I cancelled all my meetings this week, overhauled my blog (to allow Drupal posts) and found a place to stay (thanks to the guys of Merge).

My program for this week will be:read more »