This document provides an overview of Drupal basics for beginners. It introduces Drupal as an open-source content management framework with many features useful for library websites. Key aspects covered include Drupal core functionality, thousands of contributed modules that extend its capabilities, themes for presentation, and how with some modules and themes, complex functionality can be achieved with little or no coding. Installation, content types, views, users/permissions, and resources for additional help are also summarized.
Reflections on a Year with Plone: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied S...Jazkarta, Inc.
Eliza Grinnell and Lesley Lam from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences discussion their experiences with Plone at a university, including the planning, implementation and launch of a public site, intranet and faculty websites.
Opening What's Closed: Using Open Source Tools to Tear Down [Vendor] SilosKen Varnum
The University of Michigan Library's web site is a consistent, integrated front end on what was a collection of 19 distinctly different library sites and multiple library silos. The library's site now combines a variety of tools (including Drupal, VuFind, Springshare's LibGuides, Ex Libris's Metalib, DSpace, and Solr) within a single interface. In this talk, you will learn about the design process that informed the system architecture and the way we are using data from both open source and proprietary software to break down information silos. Presented at WiLSWOrld 2010 in Madison, Wisonsin
Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 7, 8, and BeyondAngela Byron
Spark is an initiative led by Acquia's Office of the CTO under Dries Buytaert, the Drupal project lead. We take a holistic look at Drupal's competition and design and implement features to help close the gaps.
One big gap that has consistently held Drupal adoption back is that of the out-of-the-box content authoring experience. Hand-typing HTML like it's 1994, previews that aren't actually previews, and interfaces that are unusable on a mobile device all present big challenges for those coming to Drupal. While all of these problems have numerous workarounds in contrib, Spark's goal is to improve the Drupal product itself to eliminate this friction innately, so site builders can spend less time smoothing out rough edges and more easily focus on what they came to Drupal to do: build their actual sites. :)
Spark is both a Drupal distribution and a set of discrete modules for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 (in many cases, Drupal 8 core) which can enhance the user experience for your site's content authors, including:
Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar
In-Place Editing
Responsive Preview
WYSIWYG editing
Improved Accessibility
Redesigned Administration Theme
...and more!
This talk will focus on demonstrating these new features and explain how site builders can take advantage of them, as well as talk about what the next areas of focus for the Spark team will be for Drupal 9 and beyond.
Reflections on a Year with Plone: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied S...Jazkarta, Inc.
Eliza Grinnell and Lesley Lam from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences discussion their experiences with Plone at a university, including the planning, implementation and launch of a public site, intranet and faculty websites.
Opening What's Closed: Using Open Source Tools to Tear Down [Vendor] SilosKen Varnum
The University of Michigan Library's web site is a consistent, integrated front end on what was a collection of 19 distinctly different library sites and multiple library silos. The library's site now combines a variety of tools (including Drupal, VuFind, Springshare's LibGuides, Ex Libris's Metalib, DSpace, and Solr) within a single interface. In this talk, you will learn about the design process that informed the system architecture and the way we are using data from both open source and proprietary software to break down information silos. Presented at WiLSWOrld 2010 in Madison, Wisonsin
Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 7, 8, and BeyondAngela Byron
Spark is an initiative led by Acquia's Office of the CTO under Dries Buytaert, the Drupal project lead. We take a holistic look at Drupal's competition and design and implement features to help close the gaps.
One big gap that has consistently held Drupal adoption back is that of the out-of-the-box content authoring experience. Hand-typing HTML like it's 1994, previews that aren't actually previews, and interfaces that are unusable on a mobile device all present big challenges for those coming to Drupal. While all of these problems have numerous workarounds in contrib, Spark's goal is to improve the Drupal product itself to eliminate this friction innately, so site builders can spend less time smoothing out rough edges and more easily focus on what they came to Drupal to do: build their actual sites. :)
Spark is both a Drupal distribution and a set of discrete modules for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 (in many cases, Drupal 8 core) which can enhance the user experience for your site's content authors, including:
Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar
In-Place Editing
Responsive Preview
WYSIWYG editing
Improved Accessibility
Redesigned Administration Theme
...and more!
This talk will focus on demonstrating these new features and explain how site builders can take advantage of them, as well as talk about what the next areas of focus for the Spark team will be for Drupal 9 and beyond.
An overview of Drupal as a Content Management System presented at the Web Content Mavens in Washington, DC by Phase2 Technology Project Manager Joel Sackett.
Decoupling Drupal - Drupal Camp Toronto 2014Alex De Winne
What if you could say to a front-end developer:
“Build it the best way you know how and with the best tools available. Don’t worry that we’re using Drupal”
You can see the presentation video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1rc5CEro6U or go to the last slide.
Lazy Coder Camp (Edition 1)
The first edition of the camp is a daylong event that is totally free for IT enthusiasts and students to attend. We will be discussing about bootstrapping Drupal. The discussion will cover all aspects of Drupal installation, setting up a basic website and integrating all your social media streams to your basic site. The event will serve as a great learning opportunity for young professionals from other domains to come experience Drupal first hand with the PHP experts. The speakers will bring their unique experiences and insights to share with the audience and will be addressing all apprehensions related to taking up Drupal development.
An overview of Drupal as a Content Management System presented at the Web Content Mavens in Washington, DC by Phase2 Technology Project Manager Joel Sackett.
Decoupling Drupal - Drupal Camp Toronto 2014Alex De Winne
What if you could say to a front-end developer:
“Build it the best way you know how and with the best tools available. Don’t worry that we’re using Drupal”
You can see the presentation video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1rc5CEro6U or go to the last slide.
Lazy Coder Camp (Edition 1)
The first edition of the camp is a daylong event that is totally free for IT enthusiasts and students to attend. We will be discussing about bootstrapping Drupal. The discussion will cover all aspects of Drupal installation, setting up a basic website and integrating all your social media streams to your basic site. The event will serve as a great learning opportunity for young professionals from other domains to come experience Drupal first hand with the PHP experts. The speakers will bring their unique experiences and insights to share with the audience and will be addressing all apprehensions related to taking up Drupal development.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Welcome
We're going to talk about Drupal
We're going to keep it pretty basic
You should leave with enough curiosity to experiment
on your own
This is not a Drupal vs. Wordpress smackdown, but
we will be making some comparisons
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
3. Introductions
Who am I?
What is LISHost?
What do we do?
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
4. Scope of the workshop
We're going to try to cover the basics
I am assuming most of you are beginners
If you are a total beginner, I apologize for going
fast and using technical terms
If you are not a total beginner, I apologize for
going slow and using basic terms
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
5. What is Drupal?
And why is it awesome for library sites?
Open source content management framework
“Allows you to create and maintain many different
types of websites without needing to know any coding
languages” – http://drupal.org/node/258
No prescribed configurations, but many features
common to library sites are easily available in Drupal
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
6. Why Drupal?
Lots of stuff available for typical library sites:
News Feeds
Calendar
Taxonomies
Image handling (such as galleries)
Search
Comments and other social functionality
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
7. Drupal 6 or Drupal 7?
It's a shame I even put this slide in here. Just use
Drupal 7.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
8. Core, Contrib, and Theme
These three components are the basis of an open
framework for building beautiful bespoke
websites.
Drupal is like a Lego kit. Skilled developers have already
made the building blocks - in the form of contributed
modules - that you need to create a site that suits your
needs, whether that is a news site, an online store, a social
network, blog, wiki, or something else altogether.
From http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
9. Drupal core
Talks to the database (so you don't have to)
Provides some basic functionality for organizing
content
Builds content into web pages
Gives some basic options for a front end (theme)
(i.e, Drupal core gives you a basic, dynamic website)
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
10. Contributed modules
Thousands of modules extend Drupal's core
This makes anything possible. (“There's a module for
that...”)
Modules have already done all the “heavy lifting”
And all this comes with benefits and challenges
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
11. Theme
Theme layer presents content and markup to the browser
Rendered with PHP
And HTML, JS, CSS, etc
Drupal offers lots of template files and overrides
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
12. Good and Bad
Ultimate flexibility
Future extendability
Scalability
vs
Learning Curve
Staff time
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
13. Learning curve?
I believe the “learning curve” inexperienced
people associate with Drupal pertains to site
building and back-end development. This is
irrelevant for day-to-day content managers.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
14. Technology stack
Web Server: Apache or Microsoft IIS
PHP: 5.2 or higher
Database Server: MySQL - 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL
- 8.3 or higher, or SQLite (Microsoft SQL Server and
Oracle are supported by an additional module)
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
15. Personnel and skill sets
Project manager
Information designer
Copywriters (don't tell me you're going to migrate...)
Web designer
Developer – could be two – front- and back-end
IT/Systems guy
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
16. Let's stop for some questions
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
17. Installation
From scratch...
provision server
Install apache, mysql, php, some other packages
Installing Drush is a good idea for command line people
Download Drupal
Set directory permissions
Create a database
Run the installation script
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
18. Post install: Dream big, code little
Installing Drupal is pretty trivial. Then the real work
starts.
By selecting great contributed modules and learning
how to implement them, you can achieve amazing
functionality without any programming.
Similarly, some themes offer a lot of robust
configuration options for creating beautiful sites
without writing any code.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
19. Content types and Views
Content types are extended with custom fields.
Fields store data in the database. Lots of data types
are available, such as dates, files, location
coordinates, and so forth.
The Views module (contrib) is a tool set for building
complex queries with a graphical UI (no coding).
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
20. API and theme libraries
You can go a long way without programming, but big,
complex sites need custom development.
Drupal offers a rich API for extending functionality.
Similarly, base themes and theme functions allow for
implementing any kind of front-end design.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
21. Buzzword compliance
HTML5, CSS3
Mobile-first
Responsive design
SASS/Compass
Etc.
(I pretty much only follow buzzwords from the front-end dev world)
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
22. Third-party content
Drupal has some amazing tools for integrating third-
party content (try the Feeds module)
RSS, XML, CSV, SQL
Evanced
ILS
???
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
23. Users and Workflows
Custom user roles/permissions by module (no pre-
defined roles to limit flexibility)
Simple publishing and editing for small institutions.
Ability to create complex workflows to scale up for
large institutions. (Check out the Rules module.)
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
24. Security
Yes, sites get hacked.
Keep modules up-to-date (especially security
updates).
Keep other stuff up-to-date.
Be careful about permissions.
Keep track of users, logs, spam, etc.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org
25. Scalability
Oh yeah, some big library sites too.
Sean Fitzpatrick | sean@lishost.org