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| Application Services Governance | API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called Application Services Governance. | ||
| How to be a Six Figure Developer | Software and website developers are in extremely high demand and rates continue to climb, but many developers have not yet realized their potential. | ||
| What's different about open source? A project manager's guide |
This training session will look at key considerations faced by project managers as they go through the web development process. We'll cover the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and... |
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| Responsive Web Design 101 | I'd love to do this with an experienced designer and/or WordPress person, perhaps as curriculum. | Beginner | |
| Programming for Absolute Beginners |
Never programmed before, but want to give it a shot? Want to release the programming ninja inside you, but don't know where to start? Want to get the basics of programming down, so you can talk... |
Beginner | |
| WordPress 101 | This is a beginner's WordPress overview that teaches students how to setup and manage a basic, self-hosted WordPress website. The course covers the following: -What is WordPress? Choosing a host... | Beginner | |
| Choosing a CMS, Installing and Configuring, Themes, Modules and Hosting | A Content Management System (CMS) makes it possible for you and others to add and edit content on your web site any time from a variety of devices. | Beginner | |
| Terminal Basics : Learn to live in the terminal by building a small website. | Students will: a) learn to master the basic terminal commands like ls, mv, pwd, touch, mkdir b) learn to navigate with cd c) write a couple of lines of html and css with vim | Beginner | |
| MySQL Basics and Beyond |
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and is used by large companies like Facebook, Google, and Adobe. CMS platforms like Drupal or WordPress are most often configured for use... |
Beginner | |
| Beginner Training for drupal | How to get started with Drupal | Beginner | |
| You have no idea, no problem. Let us see how can we help | You have an Idea. Not really but you have "a" vague idea. Or "vague ideas"? about many things and don't know where to start, where to go. Come with your ideas and we can help to make those concrete... | Beginner | |
| Responsive Design on a Budget | This could be just a Drupal session, or a hybrid Drupal/WP session. Or more. | Intermediate | |
| Hadouken! HTML5 Game Programming |
HTML5 presents a great opportunity to create browser based games that work across the array of tablet and smartphone based devices. |
Intermediate | |
| Managing Asynchronous Control Flow With Promises | As web applications increasingly move to thick-client JavaScript apps (or node.js backends), web developers are faced with increasing control flow complexity, especially around asynchronous... | Intermediate | |
| Hadouken! HTML5 Game Development |
HTML5 presents a great opportunity to create browser based games that work across the array of tablet and smartphone based devices. |
Intermediate | |
| Headless Web Development |
Headless website architecture is gaining traction and popularity. |
Intermediate | |
| VoipDrupal - Your Site and a Regular Phone... installed in 20 minutes! | This is an introduction to VoIP Drupal and how you can use it on your site to allow visitors to call and receive information, or your Website can call or text members (Call Blast). | Intermediate | |
| Drupal Module Development |
This course will get you started in Drupal Module Development. Whether you want to learn module development for your own projects or to advance your career as a developer, this course is for you... |
Intermediate | |
| Intro to Node.js | Node.js has been getting a lot of attention of late. Its asynchronous, highly concurrent architecture is perfect for massively parallel network applications. | Intermediate | |
| Web Scraping with Node.js | Web scraping is a valuable tool for utilizing the vast amount of data available on the web. It can be employed for research, in the enterprise, or for personal use. The only limit is your... | Intermediate |
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| Saturday Keynote: Ashe Dryden |
Ashe Dryden is an indie ruby developer living in Madison, WI. She's been involved with the web in some form or another over the course of the past 13 years... |
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| Cooperatives and Collectives - Think Outside the Boss | As members of the USFWC (US Federation of Worker Cooperatives), Agaric is a group of worker/owners from around the globe, that work collectively on projects. | ||
| User Research When You Can't Reach Your Users | You’ve finally convinced your stakeholders that user research is a vital part of the design and development process. | ||
| Where do we go from here? | You've been programming for a while. You can make things happen, get things done, but you know there is more out there. What next? | ||
| Design Matters |
Art is subjective. You like it or you don’t like it. But design is the science of art. It’s art with purpose. Design is about intent. What do you want people to know, feel, and do? |
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| 21 Best Practices for Higher Ed Web Development |
Are you dreading your upcoming web redesign, or so excited that you can't wait to start? Have you discussed it in a dozen committee meetings, or is it the red-headed stepchild, never mentioned? |
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| Get Involved with Core sprint for new Drupal core contributors |
The "Get Involved with Core" sprint is an opportunity for first-time contributors to Drupal to get involved by spending the day working on Drupal 8. |
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| Architecting distributed, high-performance systems |
Running a simple web application on a single server is easy. But what if you really need to scale? What if you need fault tolerance? How can you eliminate single points of failure? And how can you... |
Advanced | |
| Seriously Scalable Architecture With AWS |
Amazon Web Services provides one of the most awesomely complicated suites of tools you can use to power a web application, which is why most of its users use less than 1% of its... |
Advanced | |
| Terminal Basics for Everyone |
Learn about the basics of the terminal. This is a relatively short intro to terminal basics. This will include:
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Beginner | |
| Enhancing your Design & Development Process with Content Questions | Many of the challenges that come from building a responsive site are based not in the technical implementation, but in the content. All your copy is now readable on a small screen, but is it useful... | Beginner | |
| 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. |
Beginner | |
| Finding PHP problems with tools like Xdebug |
Have you ever run into PHP Fatal errors such as "Unsupported Operand Type" or "Cannot use object of type stdClass as array", or maybe one page is just horrendously slow and you just can't figure... |
Beginner | |
| 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. |
Beginner | |
| Friday Keynote: Susan Buck, "So you want to be a developer..." |
As an instructor with the Women's Coding Collective, at the Harvard Extension School, and Wellesley College, I spend a lot of time teaching... |
Beginner | |
| DNS: The Internet's White Pages | This is an introductory session on all things DNS. We will talk about the underlying architecture as well as the various types of records and what they're used for. We will talk about domains,... | Beginner | |
| IPython Notebooks: Not Just for Data NERDs |
IPython Notebooks are web-based interactive documents that combine executable code, text, graphs, and media into a single,... |
Beginner | |
| Homespun UX: Going Beyond Web Analytics |
Does the field of user-centered design mystify you? Does user research seem like the last thing you have time to think about?
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Beginner | |
| The Top Ten Development Lessons They Didn't Teach You in School |
You’ve graduated, accepted a job and have a shiny new business card that reads Software Developer. What’s next? |
Beginner | |
| Intro to HTML/CSS | HTML and CSS are sibling markup languages that every web site is built with. HTML serves as the structure, with CSS adding style. | Beginner |
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| Want to Lose 300 Thousand Dollars? |
Proposal New England Regional Developers NERD Summit 2014 From: Wayne A. English President, Web Content Rx |
Advanced | |
| Performance and scalability in the PHP ecosystem | A step-by-step guide to improving the performance and scalability of your PHP based applications, not just on code level, but more importantly in the larger PHP ecosystem. We'll discuss caching (why... | Beginner | |
| Practical Git for developers | A practical step-by-step guide to Git, guiding you through each phase of a project and explaining the use of Git at each step of the development process. Expect lots of how-to, but also some how-not-... | Beginner | |
| Beyond PHP/Python/Ruby/... : it's not (just) about the code ! | Most web developers focus on writing code. But creating web applications is about much more than just writing code. | Beginner | |
| Contribute to Drupal without knowing how to code |
The Drupal project is a GPL-licensed open source content management system that thrives on people helping out. |
Beginner | |
| Contribute to Drupal with code |
The Drupal project is a GPL-licensed open source content management system that thrives on people helping out. I'll show how to contribute to the project by... |
Beginner | |
| Creating Nice Web APIs with Flask | Learn to build web APIs using Flask. This session introduces developers to the art of design robust APIs using an easy to use platform. Many might then be able to transfer the principles they learn... | Beginner | |
| Introduction to Ruby on Rails |
Since its release in 2004, Ruby on Rails has grown to be the leading framework for developing web applications in Ruby.
Rails is many things:
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Beginner | |
| Intro to Ruby | Ruby is one of those fast growing programming languages. And there is a pretty large demand for Ruby coders. During this session we'll cover through an introduction that will involve the following... | Beginner | |
| Going Beyond The Loop |
One of the most common tasks in WordPress theme development is to manipulate and/or display a certain set of posts outside of the main post listing. WP_Query is how you accomplish that, but it can... |
Beginner | |
| When dynamic becomes static : the next step in web caching techniques | Although tools like Varnish can improve performance and scalability for static sites, when user-specific content is needed, a hit to the PHP/Ruby/Python/.Net backend is still required, causing... | Intermediate | |
| Successful Code Collaboration with Git |
Imagine the following scenario. Your biggest client has an existing site and they’ve engaged your team for the following initiatives:
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Intermediate | |
| Modern WordPress Development Workflow | WordPress is well known for its user friendliness, but it's often not seen as very developer friendly. | Intermediate | |
| Sass Primer: CSS Pixie Dust | If you've made a website lately, you've used CSS. If you've used CSS there's probably a head-sized dent in the wall near your desk! | Intermediate |
This event's Organizers / Educators:
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Lissie
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donmateo
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Johanna Bates
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Andrew Pasquale
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Rick Hood
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kelly
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