Drupal Asia Pacific Conference

Summary

There is current trend in web interface design towards user customizable, or personalizable, websites.
Take, for example, the new BBC site at http://bbc.co.uk
This session will cover some newer interface techniques including:

• How to make your Drupal blocks drag and droppable in a few minutes
• How to implement basic AJAX callbacks in Drupal using jQuery

Goals/Outcomes

After attending this session, you should be able to go away and recreate and extend these techniques yourself.

Presenter Info

David Thomas is a Senior Developer at Catalyst IT, Wellington, New Zealand. He specializes in web applications development with a particular focus on content management systems.

Summary

Too often, Drupal sites look drab and plain and very much like the default Garland theme. This session discusses why that is and suggests technical and non-technical ways to go about creating truly outstanding looking Drupal websites.

Outline/Plan

The reasons that many Drupal sites look drab and plain.

How to tackle this with:

• project management workflow
• design talent
• theming capabilities of Drupal
• module knowledge and choice

If time, an open discussion of any other tips people have found useful.

Goals/Outcomes

Attendee should leave with a better understanding of how to build outstanding looking websites using any version of Drupal.

Presenter Info

Mark has designed and developed software for over 20 years in fields as diverse as exploration geophysics and health, education and government. He's Managing Director of Caign Group, an IT consulting and web system development company which has implemented over 35 Drupal websites in Australia and abroad.

Summary

The new way of laying out content within Drupal pages. We will cover what panels can do, and how to expand your any part of your site to display content as you wish.

Outline/Plan

-Install Panels, and other useful items
-Creating a new front page.
-Use of Context
-Displaying nodes with panels
-Other cools things to do with panels

Goals/Outcomes

People will know what panels is and an in site into what you can do.

Presenter Info

Drupal Developer and member of the Drupal community for 6 years.

Summary

This session will cover how to install and configure e-Commerce.

Outline/Plan

-Installation of e-Commerce
-Configuring a Payment gateway
-Configuring Products
-Configuring Commission
-Creating Products
-Selling Products

Goals/Outcomes

You will have an overview on how to set up and maintain an online store.

Presenter Info

I am the Lead developer of the e-Commerce project and a Drupal Developer for the last 6 years. I have also being in both the Utility and Sales industry.

Summary

The Session will cover the new features within v4

Outline/Plan

* Cover all new features
* why we did these changes to e-Commerce
* any questions on how to do e-Commerce.

Goals/Outcomes

Outline the new features that will be available in v4

Presenter Info

I am the Lead developer for the e-Commerce project and have implemented most of the changes to improve e-C

Summary

New Drupal administrators and users can find the 2500 contributed modules highly intimidating. This session is a simple overview of Em Space's preferred default installation. We will also look at a couple of examples of how a complex module can be made redundant with CCK or a small piece of code.

Outline/Plan (may need shortening)

-- What does Em Space choose to use?
-- Em Space install profile.
-- Example decision: Event module vs CCK with Date.
-- What is "glue" code, when do we use it.
-- SimpleMenu, the theme-reliever
-- Lullabot's top 40 modules - compare and discuss

Goals/Outcomes

Share knowledge and general strategy for building a module list.

Presenter Info

Simon Hobbs has worked with Install Profiles and developed them for other companies. Em Space has a default preferred installation, and older version being available on Drupal.org.

Summary

This session will present some general ideas/areas for best practices in Drupal development/deployment and then will open the floor for a discussion session for people to offer their own tips, tricks, best practices and more.

Outline/Plan

-Dev Environment (IDEs, RCS, etc)
-Coding Practices
-Deployment/Rollout
-Team Structures
-Management practices (SCRUM, waterfall, ?)

Goals/Outcomes

The goal of this session is to share best practices between everyone to enhance our effectiveness as a whole.

Presenter Info

I will present a some starting points and then aim to be a moderator for this discussion

Summary

This session will cover what is new in Drupal 6 from an developer's and themer's perspective. This will include things like the API changes, theme system improvements, Schema API and how to go about upgrading your module.

Presenter Info

I am just an enthusiastic drupaler and hope to show off the new version.

*NOTE* I am looking for someone else that can help me with this presentation