News from DrupalCon DC Jeremy Epstein 19 March 2009

Cool t-shirts!

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

1,400 people

Like the Drupal community at large, continues to double in size each year

DrupalCon getting a bit too big, too corporate

D7 timeline announced

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

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

What’s new in D7 Fields in core RDFa in core 78% test coverage Database: next gen

Fields in core

RDFa in core

78% test coverage

Database: next gen

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

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

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

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

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)

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)