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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
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
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...

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
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
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
Responsive Web Design 101 I'd love to do this with an experienced designer and/or WordPress person, perhaps as curriculum. Beginner
Responsive Design on a Budget This could be just a Drupal session, or a hybrid Drupal/WP session. Or more. Intermediate
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
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
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
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
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.
Headless Web Development

Headless website architecture is gaining traction and popularity.

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
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
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
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
Beginner Training for drupal How to get started with Drupal Beginner
Application Services Governance API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called Application Services Governance.
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WordPress and the Command Line

How to use WP-CLI to manage your WordPress site via the command line. From basic management like installing & updating plugins and themes, to scripting a installation workflow, this tool is a...

Intermediate
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?
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
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.
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
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
Terminal Basics for Everyone Learn about the basics of the terminal. This is a relatively short intro to terminal basics. This will include:
  • Learning to create folders
  • Creating files
  • Using Vim (basics...
Beginner
Structured Content in Drupal and WordPress

This talk examines how Drupal (7.x) and WordPress (3.9/4.0) handle custom content types, and use that to explore how the philosophies of the two platforms/communities differ.

Intermediate
SMACSS your theme up: Theming Drupal 7 with the Drupal 8 CSS architecture

Drupal 8 is still in alpha, but its CSS standards synthesize a range of best practices that can and should be applied today.

Intermediate
Simplifying Frontend Development with Gulp The process of building, testing, and deploying modern web applications is becoming increasingly complex. Task runners like Gulp and Grunt can automate these processes and greatly simplify your life... Intermediate
Shaping Your Free Software Project... and the World?

We'll talk about the fundamentals of participating in Free Software projects and communities, which is why this is in the Fundamentals track, but we'll also talk about how we as individuals and as...

Intermediate
Setup Rails and build Twitter! In this track, learners will learn about the basics of the Rails 4 environment and learn how to set it up for development and build an app that works just like twitter! We will deploy our apps to... Beginner
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
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...

Sass and Compass

Hey! I just started using SASS and Compass. Come see what I have figured out so far.

Beginner
Product development from within

Knectar recently launched its first product to some glowing reviews. This is a talk about the process of conceiving and developing a professional-grade SaaS product from within the context of a...

Beginner
Nodeschool Interested in learning some Node.js? Know some already & want to improve your skills? Come by this Nodeschool workshop & work thru a lesson that matches... Intermediate
New to PHP So, there are all these letters and numbers and punctuation when you're looking at your Wordpress theme (or Drupal Theme). You can get a few things done, but it all looks like magic to you.
...
Beginner
Modern Front End Development

Front end development is always changing, and it's very easy to fall behind. This session will be a whirlwind tour of the front end tools, libraries, and design patterns of the future.

Intermediate
Maintaining Websites with Security and Privacy In the post-Snowden threat environment, we understand that our clients' data is under threat from many different adversaries. Governments, cyber-criminals and foreign hackers are all trying to root... Intermediate

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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
Want to Lose 300 Thousand Dollars? Proposal
New England Regional Developers
NERD Summit 2014

From: Wayne A. English
President, Web Content Rx
Advanced
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:
  • Make the site responsive;
  • Create a new blog...
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
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
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
Modern WordPress Development Workflow WordPress is well known for its user friendliness, but it's often not seen as very developer friendly. Intermediate
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:
  1. Open...
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
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
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
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

This event's Organizers / Educators:

Lissie
donmateo
Johanna Bates
Andrew Pasquale
Rick Hood
kelly