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Taxonomy Everywhere: D7 Core Overhaul and the Expanding Contrib Universe

Your session in a few words: 
Drupal 7 brings a complete rebuild of taxonomy that could mean tagging taxonomy terms with other taxonomy terms, and the contrib modules are equally crazy and far more numerous.
Date: 
September 2, 2009 - 16:10 - 17:00
Room: 
Adenauer
Track: 
From zero to hero
Session Type: 
Panel
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
taxonomy
Tags: 
core
Tags: 
architecture
Language: 
English

Long a selling point for Drupal, robust categorization and tagging of content is receiving a long overdue overhaul in Drupal 7. Meanwhile, contributed modules continue to be added and improved that leverage taxonomy for displaying, searching, filtering, sorting, and recommending content– and for connecting your site to other sites and classification methods.

Ironically, the plethora of contributed taxonomy modules are as poorly organized and hard to keep track of as any set of Drupal projects. We'll help you make sense of it all.

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Image module in core it's <strike>almost</strike> real!

Your session in a few words: 
A status update and demonstration on core's built-in image handling.
Date: 
September 3, 2009 - 11:20 - 12:10
Room: 
David Weill
Track: 
From zero to hero
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Tags: 
image
Tags: 
media
Tags: 
core
Language: 
English

The simplest things can be so hard. Drupal core has never had a way to upload an image and then output a thumbnail it. Of course there are dozens of solutions for making thumbnails in the contributed modules repository, but it will be a huge benifit to new users to have this handling out of the box. The time is at hand for making Drupal's core, default installation come with kick-ass image manipulation abilities. Come see what we've got and we're headed in Drupal 7.

Intro to the Field API for Module Developers

Your session in a few words: 
Learn to use the Field API to add custom content to anything
Date: 
September 2, 2009 - 17:15 - 18:00
Room: 
Adenauer
Track: 
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
core
Tags: 
module development
Language: 
English

Drupal 7 includes the new Field API which provides "CCK functionality" in core. The Field API supports attaching custom data fields to nodes, users, remote data objects, and any other type of entity. This session introduces the Field API for module developers and shows how it differs from Drupal 6's "hook_nodeapi" approach.

Explore the glory of Drupal 7's improved render and theming systems

Your session in a few words: 
Explore the glory of Drupal 7's improved render and theming systems
Date: 
September 2, 2009 - 13:40 - 14:30
Room: 
Adenauer
Track: 
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Advanced
Tags: 
theme
Tags: 
module development
Tags: 
core
Language: 
English

One focus of Drupal 7 has been to empower module developers and theme developers to more easily achieve the look the want for their final output. We added hook_page_alter() where a themer or module developer can alter any part of the page just before it is rendered. At this point, the page is still a raw array that can be easily manipulated.

Does Drupal Suck? A Contrarian View On The Best CMS

Your session in a few words: 
Despite being the best CMS, Drupal still sucks. Here's why.
Track: 
User experience and design
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
usability
Tags: 
core
Tags: 
candidate-for-bof
Tags: 
sarcasm
Language: 
English

Drupal is the best Open Source CMS, and probably more. It is also a great source of frustration for many of its supporters.

This presentation will walk you trough a selection of EPIC FAILS from the point of view of a long time Drupal integrator, user and fan. It also tries to offer solutions to those problems, including prototypes, code contributions and sponsoring.

Also, you will laugh. Half-heartedly.

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