The document summarizes sessions and BoFs (birds of a feather discussions) attended at DrupalCon SF 2010. It covers topics including using Drupal for architects, the semantic web, the services module, voice over IP (VoIP), high performance user interfaces, and mobile app development using Drupal. Key areas discussed include RDFa for metadata, OAuth authentication, RESTful APIs, caching with hash fragments, and tools like PhoneGap and Titanium for building mobile apps.

1. DrupalCon SF 2010 Summary Summary of Sessions/BoFs attended by Hector Iribarne

2. Session: Drupal for Architects Presenter: Jeff Eaton Menu API – handles key tasks (e.g. routing) Database Abstraction Layer (easier in D7) Session Handling (tracking user session) Output filtering (e.g. XSS, file storage, localization, form processing, Batch API, etc.) Team: Architect, Builder, Developer, Designer, Themer and Migration Mule

3. BoF: Semantic Web Presenter: David Seth Slides: http://davidseth.net/bof-drupalcon-rdfa-semantic-web-and-distributed-social-networks FOAF (Friend of a Friend) + SSL : (authentication like Open ID) Create certificate (e.g. FOAF.me) to use across websites RDFa – embed rich metadata, enhance SEO Semantic Web Libraries – http://freebase.com , http://dbpedia.org

4. Session: Services Module (Pg.1) Presenter: Greg Dunlap (started:Scott Nelson) Services make Drupal mashable Services is made up of three Components: Servers, Authentication, Services Servers (receive/render requests): XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, REST, AMFPHP Authentication: API Keys, Drupal Sessions, oAuth (future of Services)

5. Session: Services Module (Pg.2) Services: Nodes, Users, Files, System, Search, (your stuff here), etc. Extending Services: Implement hook_service() Version 3 (D6 + D7) More flexible endpoints CORE only CRUD-based resources More REST centric Lots of API cleanup and DX improvements

6. BoF: VoIP Presenters: Leo Burd and Chad Phillips Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/leoburd/20100420-vddrupal-consf2010-3803885 Currently use the Asterisk module (record a message and post it to a Drupal node) Future: VoIP module (support Asterisk, Freeswitch.org , etc.) Use XMLRPC

7. BoF: High Performace (UI) Slides: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhtnd39r_22fp6tcnfm Use the hash mark (i.e. #) to cache parts of a page (browser ignores everything after #) Jquery BBQ (now in D7) http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/ DOM is getting bigger Use Views and AJAX VIEWS. JS

8. Session: Mobile App Dev Presenters: Aaron Pavia and Sumit Kataria from Civic Actions Drupal as a base for mobile Looked at Phone Gap (web-kit based, no native functionality) and Titanium mobile (better choice with native functionality) Use JS and WebViews

9. Additional Links Aegir http://github.com/bwood/puppet-aegir http://drupal.org/project/provision_boost http://www.mig5.net/content/drupal-deployments-workflows-version-control-drushmake-and-aegir DrupalCon sessions: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=drupalcon%20sf%202010