news from drupalcon dc
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Presentation to the Sydney Drupal Users' Group, reporting back on the events of DrupalCon DC 2009.TRANSCRIPT
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News from DrupalCon DC
Jeremy Epstein19 March 2009
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Cool t-shirts!
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Biggest DrupalCon ever (again) 1,400 people Like the Drupal community at large, continues to
double in size each year DrupalCon getting a bit too big, too corporate
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D7 timeline announced
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drupal.org Redesign complete Mark & Leisa talked
about redesign, usability testing, “open source design”, community process – great pres
d.o upgraded to d6 ApacheSolr on d.o Now working on
implementing redesign Mark & Leisa now
helping with d7 usability
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What’s new in D7
Fields in core RDFa in core 78% test coverage Database: next gen
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Why I Hate Drupal (walkah) NIH (Not Invented Here) “Do-ocracy”, drupal devs
never sleep, many contribute but get no recog
drupal_alter arrays instead of objects “Simple” image uploading High learning curve Usability and admin
screen still crap compared to Joomla / WP
Module admin page baad
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Deployment and migration Development Seed: Context, Spaces, Exportables Panel discussion on deployment: Sacha Chua (.install
scripts), Heyrocker (Deploy module), Shawn (Warner Bros Records)
Chris Bryant: Patterns module Moshe and MikeRyan: migration, table wizard module More: http://www.greenash.net.au/posts/thoughts/
deployment-and-migration-hot-at-drupalcon-dc
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Totally rocking your dev env (sacha)
Use VCS – git, svn, whatever Maintain a clean vendor branch Use firebug! Use Xdebug (or some PHP debugger) Use SimpleTest Use build tools (e.g. make, ant)
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