Calendar http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user_calendar/209/calendar/2009-09-01--P5D en Views 2 for developers http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/views-2-developers <p>Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. Views is also perhaps the most extensible system in all of Drupal, able to be extended in ways that make it the swiss army knife of data querying, marshalling, and formatting. But how do you extend it cleanly to bend it to your will?</p> <p>This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins and handlers. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. Production code samples will be included.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> After four years working with Drupal, Larry Garfield is the Senior Lead of Programming at Palantir.net. He also serves as the Director of Legal Affairs for the Drupal Association, and since 2008 has been the Drupal database system maintainer. He also maintains a number of modules, including several Views plugins. As Views plays a major role in nearly every site Palantir builds, Larry has become so versed in the Views API that it keeps him up at night with the fear that he&#039;s starting to think like merlinofchaos. His friends have advised that by helping other people think like merlin he will feel less weird about it. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/views-2-developers#comments views Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:30 +0000 Crell 580 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Sustainable theming: How to take a vacation. http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sustainable-theming-how-take-vacation <p>We all want to take vacations, and we all want our sites to grow beyond without us holding its hand, or at least some of us do.</p> <p>JohnAlbin and I will be co-presenting a session on how to think strategically about your theming so that it can stand on its own legs. At Palantir.net we strive to reduce the amount of bugs related to theming after a site has launched. It can be difficult to do, but with a little patience and planning you can build a theme that works on its own from a toolkit of design elements.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Colleen Carroll is Lead of Theming team at Palantir.net She is also the maintainer of the Austin theme. John Wilkins is a Senior Themer at Palantir.net and the maintainer of the Zen theme (among other things). </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/johnalbin" title="View user profile.">JohnAlbin</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sustainable-theming-how-take-vacation#comments sustainability theming Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:22:45 +0000 caroltron 565 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Drupal Software Design Patterns http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-software-design-patterns <p>Design patterns: They sound like something scary academics come up with to make life harder for programming students doing complicated object-oriented stuff no one understands. But really, design patterns are simply a way of discussing common solutions to common problems, and they don't have to have anything to do with objects. By learning about and leveraging common solutions, you can make better APIs that are more consistent, easier to understand, and more flexible than would have been possible with a one-off solution.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> After four years working with Drupal, Larry Garfield is the Senior Lead of Programming at Palantir.net. He also serves as the Director of Legal Affairs for the Drupal Association, and since 2008 has been the Drupal database system maintainer. He also maintains a number of modules, including several Views plugins. A firm believer in the &quot;anything worth doing is worth doing right&quot; doctrine, Larry is well-known as a pedant and standards evangelist. He also appreciates a well-turned API, and not having to remember too many ways of doing things. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-software-design-patterns#comments design patterns Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:46:10 +0000 Crell 642 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Web Typography Fundamentals: From Em Dash to Hanging Punctuation http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-typography-fundamentals-em-dash-hanging-punctuation <p>Typography is at the very heart of the web. Unfortunately, web typography generally sucks. This presentation will help anyone – developer or designer – not suck at typography. From Em-dashes to hanging punctuation, we'll cover simple fundamentals of good typography for the web.</p> <p>What will be covered in this presentation:</p> <ul> <li>Typographic Structure</li> <li>Hierarchy and language</li> <li>Whitespace and typographic colour</li> <li>Typesetting on the web</li> <li>Tables, lists and forms</li> <li>@font-face and font embedding</li> </ul> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mark Boulton is a designer from the UK and runs the design studio behind the recent redesign of Drupal.org and Drupal 7 UX (working alongside UX designer, Leisa Reichelt). His life outside of Drupal consists of working for other clients (yes, we do that!) such as ESPN, Warner Brothers and the BBC. He also writes the odd book, runs workshops and speaks at conferences. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-typography-fundamentals-em-dash-hanging-punctuation#comments design designers themers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:23 +0000 markboulton 1194 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Make a Module: A Hands-on Intro to Module Development http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/make-module-hands-intro-module-development <p>Interested in learning how to develop a custom Drupal module? This is a practical session designed to introduce you to module development.</p> <p>Get hands-on. <em>Bring your laptop and build your own module as we go.</em> (Of course, you're welcome to just listen.)</p> <p>We will cover:</p> <ul> <li>Basic module architecture</li> <li>.info files and .module files</li> <li>Using hooks</li> <li>Using existing Drupal APIs</li> <li>Finding documentation</li> <li>Debugging</li> <li>Installing and uninstalling</li> </ul> <p>By the end of this session, we will have created a functional module.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Matt Butcher is the author of &quot;Learning Drupal 6 Module Development&quot; and &quot;Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery&quot;. He is a professional Drupal developer at Palantir.net. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/make-module-hands-intro-module-development#comments module development Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:21:08 +0000 mbutcher 626 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Beautiful, Core-worthy Designs http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/making-drupal-dance-techniques-beautiful-core-worthy-designs <p>For too long the Drupal community has lamented the lack of high-quality themes that are freely available. But the solution to this problem is much simpler than we’ve ever thought. <strong>We need learn how to communicate with the Design community and make Drupal dance!</strong></p> <p>[ Edit: Given the state of the miscommunication between Designers and Developers just before Drupalcon Paris, I’ve re-written the first half of my presentation to talk about the improperly-named “Designer vs. Developer” problem. ]</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In the Drupal community, John is best known as JohnAlbin, the maintainer of the Zen theme, which is a highly-documented, feature-rich “starter” theme with a powerfully flexible CSS framework. John currently works with a bunch of really cool Drupal developers and themers at Palantir.net. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/making-drupal-dance-techniques-beautiful-core-worthy-designs#comments design Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:29:18 +0000 JohnAlbin 566 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Foreign Affairs case study http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/foreign-affairs-case-study <p><em>Foreign Affairs</em> is the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan member organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. Since its inception in 1922, articles and essays published in Foreign Affairs have helped shape political debate and policy on some of the most important issues of the day. Authors who have written for the journal have included influential intellectuals and political leaders ranging from W.E.B. DuBois to Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton.</p> <p>This session will explore how the new <em><a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com">Foreign Affairs</a></em> Web site, which was developed by Palantir.net and launched in March 2009, showcases Drupal’s wide variety of capabilities. In addition to leveraging existing modules, the site features a significant amount of new functionality developed for the site and contributed back to the Drupal community.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> George DeMet is the founder and co-owner of Chicago-based Web development firm &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.palantir.net/&quot;&gt;Palantir.net&lt;/a&gt;, Inc. Working in collaboration with a variety of creative partners, he has managed the development of visually and functionally sophisticated Drupal sites for a variety of high-profile corporate, educational, and institutional clients. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/mbutcher" title="View user profile.">mbutcher</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/drupal-users/agentrickard" title="View user profile.">agentrickard</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/foreign-affairs-case-study#comments casestudy Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:41 +0000 gdemet 572 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Web services, mashups, and QueryPath http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-services-mashups-and-querypath <p>Write a web service interface in ten lines. Import legacy HTML from a couple dozen lines of code. Get the content outline from an ODT document in 130 characters of code. Mash up five web services in a single module. This is what QueryPath makes possible.</p> <p>There are hundreds of XML-based APIs, ranging from simple RESTful tools (like Twitter's XML API) to complex SPARQL-based semantic web endpoints (like DBPedia). The new QueryPath library makes it easy to write code that takes advantage of such web services.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Matt Butcher is a programmer and author. He has written five books, including &quot;Learning Drupal 6 Module Development&quot; and &quot;Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery&quot;. He is a professional Drupal developer at Palantir.net. He maintains numerous Drupal modules, including Quiz, QueryPath, and Amplify. He lives in Chicago in the USA. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-services-mashups-and-querypath#comments module development Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:49:54 +0000 mbutcher 570 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Designing Grid Systems Does Not Begin And End With 960 http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/designing-grid-systems-does-not-begin-and-end-960 <p>Grid Systems should underpin any well-considered web layout. Applying a cookie-cutter approach to this – but using a CSS framework such as Blueprint or 960 (and the Drupal 960 theme) – means you're cutting out a vital process in the design of your site: the design of the grid system itself.</p> <p>This presentation will detail my grid design process. Throughout the presentation, I'll cover:</p> <ul> <li>The typographic grid: its history, usage and application on the web</li> <li>Different types of grid: modular, columnar, hierarchical, rational, irrational, </li> </ul><div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mark Boulton is a designer from the UK and runs the design studio behind the recent redesign of Drupal.org and Drupal 7 UX (working alongside UX designer, Leisa Reichelt). His life outside of Drupal consists of working for other clients (yes, we do that!) such as ESPN, Warner Brothers and the BBC. He also writes the odd book, runs workshops and speaks at conferences. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/designing-grid-systems-does-not-begin-and-end-960#comments design favorite-of-the-king grids themers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:28:08 +0000 markboulton 1197 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Sharing content across multiple sites with Domain Access http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sharing-content-across-multiple-sites-domain-access <p>We will take an in-depth look at the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/domain">Domain Access</a> module and how it can be used to support complex content sharing scenarios.</p> <p>We will explore the features of the module and examine how they can be used to build sites such as:</p> <p>- <a href="http://www.interlochen.org" title="www.interlochen.org">www.interlochen.org</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.skirt.com" title="www.skirt.com">www.skirt.com</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.rowelevenwines.com" title="www.rowelevenwines.com">www.rowelevenwines.com</a></p> <p>We will concentrate on what makes Domain Access different from other Drupal Node Access modules, such as Organic Groups and Taxonomy Access Control.</p> <p>Attendees should learn the following during the session:</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> I am a senior Drupal programmer at Palantir.net and a longtime Drupal contributor. I am the maintainer and author of the Menu Node API, MySite, Domain Access and Skeleton modules. I also co-chair the Newspapers on Drupal group and the Knight Drupal Initiative. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sharing-content-across-multiple-sites-domain-access#comments multisite Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:16:05 +0000 agentrickard 564 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org