News From DrupalCon DC

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

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

What’s new in D7
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

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

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)

News From DrupalCon DC

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