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

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

What unit testing is, and why it'll save your sanity later

Goals/Outcomes

The work to hook Drupal into simpletest has been done already, so all you need do is write the tests. This session will go over both why this is a good idea, and how to write some simple unit tests, and run against both drupal core and any contrib modules.

Presenter Info

Brenda has taught unit testing php at university level from time to time, and firmly believes unit test driven development ensures a higher quality code.