DrupalConParis2009 - deployment

Brico dépôt - how to create websites for 105 department stores

killes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:59:37 +0000

Brico dépôt is a well known chain of DIY stores in France.

Among their requirements were:

Handle all of the over 100 depots.
Import of the product data from SAP every 24 hours
Content update every 24 hours
about 1200 catalog pages + other categories to handle
about 20.000 products and articles in each store. Possibility of variation in prices and availability.
DIY layout for website managers.

Topics will be

Import data from 3rd party application.

Speaker bio:

See http://drupal.org/user/227

Co presenters:

juergen.p

Automate your site maintenance troubles away with the Aegir hosting system.

adrian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:10:50 +0000

This session will illustrate the use of the Aegir hosting system to simplify the life of developers and administrators, by automating a lot of the common tasks involved in deploying sites.

Day:

Day 3

Speaker bio:

For more than six years now (really, he’s user 1337 on Drupal.org), Adrian has been working with Drupal and is one of the few people who can say that they were at the very first DrupalCon (Antwerp, 2005). During this time, he’s contributed major code enhancements to the project, including the PHPTemplate template engine and Drupal Forms API. And he’s the man for managing massive Drupal deployments. Adrian is the father of Aegir, a set of contributed modules that solves this very problem by providing a simple Drupal based hosting frontend for networks of sites.

Enterprise Drupal Site And Team Management Panel

nnewton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:44:12 +0000

In this panel, we will be discussing the challenges of team and site management in an enterprise Drupal environment; as well as the solutions we have each found to overcome these issues. The topics covered will be:

* Subversion management of a large Drupal installation, with multiple branches and tags for development and deployment.
* Testing newly developed modules and patches for deployment
* Managing a large distributed team of developers
* Managing Drupal upgrades and specifically an upgrade to Drupal 6.X

Speaker bio:

Narayan Newton is the Server Coordinate for Drupal.org and Partner at Tag1 Consulting. He is an former System Administrator at the Open Source Lab, with a large amount of experience in team management, technical management and the challenges associated with the development and deployment of new web sites in a distributed work environment.

Co presenters:

wm_greenopolis

Migrate a dynamic 5.x site to 6.x with Drush

franskuipers — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:42:14 +0000

We know all the "drill" of migrating a site:

Put your site on maintenance.
Backup your database and code
Disable all your modules (do this with 50+ modules)
Update your core and modules code
run update.php
check for errors in update screen
activate a module
run update.php
check for errors in update screen
repeat last 3 actions until you have migrated all modules

And then we are not talking about migrating buddylist to friendlist or views 1.x to views 2.x.

Speaker bio:

Frans Kuipers, in IT since 1985. Using drupal since 2007. Currently web manager of nabuur.com, a collaboration website for International Development 2.0.

Performance and High Availability best practices

bjaspan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:21:20 +0000

Note: the description of this session needs to be updated.

How reliable is your web site? If one server at your hosting provider goes down, will it take your site with it? How quickly and confidently can you restore from backups? You DO have backups, right?

Speaker bio:

Barry Jaspan has been a Drupal contributor and core developer for over three years. He developed the Schema API and is the team leader for Field API. He is a Principal Engineer at Acquia, Inc. and is an entrepreneurially-minded computer programmer with a strong focus on computer security and privacy. Prior to Acquia, Barry created interMute, the first commercial web annoyance blocker, and Spamnix, a spam-blocking product. Barry is a maniacal whitewater kayaker and rock climber and generally spends his time wherever rocks, water, and gravity meet.

Co presenters:

nnewton

davidstrauss

Amazon

killes

Damien Tournoud