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

c4rl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:18:37 +0000

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!

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Day 2

Speaker bio:

Carl Wiedemann is a Drupal developer in Denver, CO. He focuses on web strategy and SEO. He presented Best Practices at DrupalCamp Colorado in June 2009. He also ran the after party.

Caring for Code: Building Responsible Modules

zzolo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:17:08 +0000

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.

Speaker bio:

Alan Palazzolo is a Lead Developer at Trellon and has been doing Drupal Development for a few years. Alan is a strong believer in open source, open data, coding standards, and responsible development.

DrupalConParis2009 - best practices

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

Caring for Code: Building Responsible Modules