Drupal Asia Pacific Conference

Summary

Drupal and SugarCRM can dance well together, let us look at how.

Outline/Plan

-SOAP Dance (The clean one).
-Good Form Dance
-Mail Dance

Presenter Info

Ashley has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. Curently a Manager for Didymo Designs. Developing business solutions for more than 15 years, working with Drupal for 2 and half years.

Summary

Business/People do not want technology,

Business/People want solutions to problems.

Drupal is well suited to solving many needs.

Outline/Plan

-Substantiate the title of this presentation.
-Establish Drupals Busines case
-Consider some scenarios

Presenter Info

Ashley has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. Curently a Manager for Didymo Designs. Developing business solutions for more than 15 years, working with Drupal for 2 and half years.

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

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 looks at how to use your Drupal site to deliver Views as Services where the views are modified on the way through.

Outline/Plan

-- Modules that provide views arguments to render views differently.
-- Returning a view via a service, some server options.
-- Writing our custom service with extra parameters
-- Loading (and modifying) views dynamically. views_build_view() options.

Goals/Outcomes

Demonstrate the power and limitations of services and share ideas about leveraging the power of views.

Presenter Info

Simon Hobbs built a prototype for Lonely Planet, one of the requirements was to deliver content flexibly and to explore the potential of an API for external clients. This session is based on learning from that project.

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 end user's perspective. This will include things like the new installer, user interface improvements, and how to go about upgrading your site.

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

Summary

This session will cover creating a Drupal web site in 40 mins

Outline/Plan

-choosing your hosting
-the install
-menus and blocks
-changing the theme
-how to spend the income from working smarter

Goals/Outcomes

After this you will be a Drupal convert, able to setup web sites for friends and colleges.

Presenter Info

As a Drupal convert I have seen the light and want to share my disease

Summary

Caching is one strategy that can be used to increase the Performance and Scalability of a Drupal site. This session will cover the various types of caches in Drupal, how to use them, and what the alternatives are. Topics include:

- drupal core caching: what is cached, how it works

- pluggable cache system

- using caching in (your) custom modules

- alternate caching implementations (memcache, apc)

- advanced caching module

- block cache module

- filesystem caching (boost, fastpath_fscache)

- bytecode caches

- changes between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6

Presenter Info

Simon Roberts has been using Drupal for about 2.5 years, and enjoys the challenge of producing high-performing and scalable websites using Drupal. He is a (sometimes) co-maintainer of memcache module, and is currently working on another large-scale Drupal site.