Calendar http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user_calendar/374/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 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 Learn to use the CTools suite http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/learn-use-ctools-suite <p>The Chaos Tools Suite, known as CTools, is kind of a extra core API library. It includes a number of tools to greatly ease certain functionality. In this lecture, merlinofchaos will describe how to do the following tasks:</p> <ul> <li> Create a multi-step form using the form wizard tool</li> <li> Create advanced ajax forms using the ajax tool</li> <li> Create more advanced ajax forms using the modal tool </li> <li> Make your objects exportable like Views </li> <li> Use collapsible divs that look nicer than collapsible fieldsets</li> <li> Use CSS caching and sanitization </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"> Earl Miles is well known within the community for his contributions to the Drupal projected, particularly Views, Panels and improvements to the theming system in Drupal 6. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/learn-use-ctools-suite#comments ajax ctools export Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:03:44 +0000 merlinofchaos 1264 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 Paying for the plumbing http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/paying-plumbing <p>It's easy to make a living building Drupal solutions, and there's a good business case for contributing your work. But increasingly, we all depend on "tools to build tools", such as CCK, Views, Drupal core enhancements, and other frameworks or API's that make our work point-and-click.</p> <p>How do we fund these initiatives, or other work that provides a long-term return on investment, without any immediate gains in the short term?</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"> Allie Micka, and her company Advantage Labs, have been longtime Drupal developers and community advocates. Their primary focus is to provide a sustainable platform for managed drupal hosting, training and community participation, and to continue to support the development of Drupal modules for Mail, CRM, Geospatial and community engagement solutions. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/paying-plumbing#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:56:02 +0000 Allie Micka 1275 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org