Spezzle, a planning tool for Drupal

Submitted by kvantomme on July 8, 2009 - 23:16

Your session in a few words:

Spezzle, a planning tool to help you build Drupal sites faster and cheaper, how we built it, how to use it

Track:

Business development and strategy

Session Type:

Lecture

Level of expertise:

Intermediate

Language:

English

In this session I'll be introducing Spezzle, a planning tool that helps you and your customers make Drupal site specifications that will require minimal custom coding.

The platform allows you to collaborate with the community in general or with a set of people on feature libraries, basically functionality recepies for Drupal sites. But besides the feature description there is the possibility to add information about:

the implementation of the feature (e.g. what modules, how you should configure them)
actual settings that will be exportable into patterns (Drupal module that configures sites)
tickets
documentation

If that didn't get your attention let me say that we are using:

an RDFa WYSIWYG editor
an extension to faceted search that enables asynchronous searching in a block region
some Javascript goodness that dynamically builds a table of content form h-tags
an RSS ticket exporter from the ticket RDFa properties

some extreme theming of the Drupal node edit form with JS tabs

and much more...

Watch a demo of our platform on Youtube

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Kristof Van Tomme

Kristof Van Tomme is a Belgian who together with his partner Laura Vass set up a Drupal shop in Hungary. Kristof was the initiator and co-lead for Drupalcon Szeged. He's got a degree in Life sciences and has worked to spread Drupal adoption in the European Biotech sector. He organized the first Drupal user group meeting in Hungary (in Szeged) and was involved in the initiation of the Budapest meetup. He also teaches an introductory Drupal course at the University of Szeged. Since May this year Kristof has been living again in Belgium where he is starting up a second office for Pronovix.