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Welcome to the Jungle! Basic Drupal Recipes and Best Practices for Beginners

Your session in a few words: 
Drupal Recipes and Best Practices for Beginners
Date: 
September 4, 2009 - 14:50 - 15:40
Room: 
David Weill
Track: 
From zero to hero
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Tags: 
beginner
Tags: 
best practices
Tags: 
awesomeness
Language: 
English

Congratulations! You've installed Drupal! Pretty cool, huh?

There's just one problem -- you've got a website to build, and you don't know where to begin.

Should you start putting in content? Maybe start with some modules -- hmm, which ones? Or, should you start tweaking the theme? How are you going to get the news page to work, anyway? Or events? Or downloads? Do you need taxonomy for that? Yikes!

Caring for Code: Building Responsible Modules

Your session in a few words: 
Caring for Code
Track: 
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
coding standards
Tags: 
best practices
Language: 
English

This presentation will focus on how you can write responsible modules for yourself, business, and the Drupal community.

Writing good codes start with one important thing: Caring. This means having the attitude that following coding standards and Drupal best practices will be valuable to yourself and others.

We will go through these things and more:

  • First, Why? Someone else is going to look at your code.
  • Documented Drupal Coding Standards.
  • Drupal API.
  • Write tests!!
  • Take a moment for security.
  • Documentation! Documentation! Documentation!
  • And finally, releasing your code to Drupal.org.

It is important to realize that this session will not present any actual code.

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