Drupal Nights

Matt Westgate: How to Fall in Love With Drupal Again

November 2019

Drupal is a couple years away from being 20 years old. In this talk, Matt Westgate will earn his 2,275 user_id from drupal.org and share his high, low and funny moments with Drupal and offer practical advice for anyone feeling burnout or uncertain about Drupal and the future.

John Picozzi: Multi-Site Vs Domain: A Commerce Case Study

May 2019

For ages people have been building Drupal Multi-sites to handle similar but different websites. The allure of updating a single code base while maintaining separate databases was and still is very appealing. However, how do you overcome the need to share content, allow users and admins a single place to login, or something as basic as content translation? Here enters the Domain module and it’s ability to simplify our life and more importantly our websites.

We will use the new Leica Geosystems

Benji Fisher: The State of the Migrate API in Drupal 8

February 2019

The Migrate API started as a contrib module in Drupal 6 and 7. From the start, it was designed to handle large-scale projects, creating Drupal nodes, taxonomy terms, etc., from almost any source: another Drupal site, an XML or CSV file, or the database from another CMS. The base module kept track of what had already been brought into the site, so it supported incremental migrations as well as updates of previously migrated content.

In order to use these versions of the Migrate API, the site

Heather Staudt: Communicating with Non-Technical Stakeholders

October 2018

At some point as a developer, you’re going to need to talk to someone who is less technical than you about very technical things.  And ultimately, one of these people while likely be responsible for whether your project makes it to completion or changes in scope that can impact your bottom line.

Donna Bungard: The Accessibility Lifecycle: A Practical Approach to Accessibility & Compliance

August 2018

Walk away from this creatively practical, amusing, and down to earth look at Accessibility with a firm understanding of the Accessibility Lifecycle and the roles each of us plays in its success. Learn how to spot quick wins and touch on a few common questions/challenges as well as how to solve for them. Get a high-level understanding of the guidelines and what they mean to whom.

Dan Feidt: Practical tips for Drupal 8 site building, maintaining and supporting modules

June 2018

I got introduced to Drupal shortly after graduating college and used it in a lot of contexts. I'll share some hard-won lessons I learned along the way about developing projects, both the wins and the fails. In the last year or two so I've helped co-maintain several modules and a theme, and I've built several Drupal 8 sites which have some clever techniques applied to meet the needs of modern designs.

Jacob Rockowitz: Webform: There is this for that

April 2018

One of the key mantras in the Drupal is “there is a module for that,” and Webform is the module for building forms for Drupal 8.

This session is going to serve as a playful exploration of the features and functionality provided by the Webform module using the “There is a this for that” approach to address requirements and solve common problems people face when building forms.

The goal of the session is to introduce people new to Drupal to the Webform module for Drupal 8, while simultaneously

Dani Nordin: Politics of design systems

February 2018

As organizations continue to take on more complex digital entities, often spanning multiple products, design systems are becoming more prevalent. Distinct from a pattern library or style guide, a well-crafted design system contains both patterns and guidelines for design practitioners, and front-end code that powers the different products.

Justin Ludwig: Falling in love with software development... Again!

December 2017

Technology has always fascinated me. When my parents brought home their first PC and showed me Netscape Navigator, I wanted to create my own websites. GeoCities kind of quenched my thirst until my parents bought a new computer and gave me their old one. I was hooked. I still mostly used their computer because mine rarely worked after discovering Linux. I loved it. If school wasn't in the picture, I would be happy.

So, I tested out of high school and had to get a job at a warehouse.

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