DrupalCampMA

This year's DrupalCampMA will be taking place during the NERDSummit, scheduled for the 12th-14th September 2014 at the UMass Hotel and Conference Center, Amherst, MA 01003 with lodging available at the UMASS Hotel.

Attendance is free. Once registered you may submit session proposals or apply to give a Paid Training.

Sponsor options are available. You may contact us for more info or apply to sponsor once registered.

 

Proposed DrupalCampMA Sessions:

Using Drupal "Features" to Build and Deploy Sites

The Features module enables the capture and management of features in Drupal. A feature is a collection of Drupal entities which when taken together satisfy a certain use-case. This module provides an easy-to-use mechanism for converting site configurations such as views and taxonomies into code – which ultimately can be version controlled and deployed.

During this presentation, we will walk you through everything you need to know about working with the Features module through the Drupal user interface, including best practices with:

To Patch or Custom: How to decide when to patch a contrib module or go custom

To use a contrib (community) module, patch a contrib module or write a custom module, that is the question.

With over 25,000 community contributed modules available for download it is rare to find one that does not offer the functionality you are looking for. However, when you cannot find a module that fits your needs you are then faced with a choice. Do you patch an existing contrib module? Or write a custom one?

To figure out the answer to the answer you just need to remember to R.E.A.D.

Thinking in Drupal - Taking an Idea from Concept to Completion

A camp favorite! Now with new examples!

Let's look at some thought patterns in solving problems with Drupal by bringing an idea from concept to completion.

This is a session that experiments in exploring using Drupal from the most basic standpoint possible. Looking at the Node as "the thing itself," this sessions gets down to the business of understanding the essence of the building blocks needed for completing concepts in Drupal.

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