Drupal Development

My First Drupal 8 Plugin OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Drupal 8

This will be a live version of my blog series (1, 2) on the Drupal 8 plugin API, specifically as it concerns blocks.

27 Questions (and Answers) from My First Site Build with Drupal 8

This talk will be a hands-on, example heavy version of my popular blog post of the same name.  I recently rebuilt my personal site in Drupal 8. It was a great experience. I kept notes as I worked, and in this talk I share all my experiences.

Build the Internet of Things today with Drupal REST web services!

REST web services are the next great frontier in Drupal development. As more and more devices come online, Drupal's role is changing fast.  Drupal is ready for this task—are you?

Intro to Drupal 7 Module Development

Even though D8 is on the horizon, the demand for Drupal 7 developers will stretch into and past 2015.
This is your chance to gain a valuable skill that you can build on.

Drupal Security Made Simple

Drupal & Security

Security of websites and the data that is hosted and transmitted is one of the most important and most overlooked parts of website development. This Drupal and Security presentation is intended to provide practical information, discuss what the risks are, how to assess risk and protect your Drupal web site. We will introduce the principals of security, threat modeling, discuss the OWASP top 10 and how to ensure your Drupal site meets all the requirements to protect from the most common attacks. Don’t become a victim.

About Krista

Case Study - Migrating the Optimizely Module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8

Since mid-2014 I've been converting the Optimizely module from its Drupal 7 incarnation into a version for Drupal 8, tracking its releases as they have been made. As I've progressed, I have been blogging regularly at:   http://optimizely-to-drupal-8.blogspot.com/

Using those posts for material, this session is for Drupal 7 module developers to introduce them to a few aspects of Drupal 8 modules.

Varnish Demystified!

You know that caching is generally a Good Thing in DrupalLand, and you're familiar with all of the performance options that are available within the Drupal UI and the contrib ecosystem.  Varnish is a tool that you want to add to your toolkit, but you find the high level info available on the Varnish website is more "market-y" than "developer-y".  This session is for you.

 

Better description coming soon!

Modernizing FillPDF: Porting a Module to Drupal 8

Many of us have been following the main Drupal 8 initiatives to some degree, and we know that things have changed. At the same time, the scope of the changes may be unclear. So we may ask: