At the DrupalDevDays I gave a presentation that teaches themers and configurators how to developer sites in less time, make them with less modules and be in control of menu items and forms generated by Drupal and contrib modules.

Varnish is being used a lot on large sites to optimize performance. It is a very fast HTTP cache server, which is to your Drupal what a big rotation press is to a newspapers DTP system. Want to deliver thousands of pages per second with very low responsetime ? Varnish is your tool for that. And Facebooks, and BBCs, and SlashDots, and...

After two days of hacking core (aka code sprinting) DrupalCon is finally starting today. I planned a lot of sessions to attend (one every hour) and I'll try to live-blog every presentation. My first presentation of DrupalCon is the one given by Jeff Miccolis of Development Seed and Irakli Nadareishvili of Phase2 Technology about Drupal Distributions.

This evening I gave a presentation at the Software Development Network about Drupal. Because the seminar is mainly focused on application development and closed source, I was the odd one out talking about PHP. All other topics were DotNetNuke, Delphi, Umbraco, Silverlight, SharePoint, etc. That said, I was rather surprised to find an enthusiast audience who were impressed when I told them that large sites as The White House, The World Bank, Ahold and even Java are running on Drupal!