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The folks at pingVision have posted their case study for the Popular Science Magazine website on drupal.org.

I attended this session and left it feeling very inspired. It was amazing to see what this small crew did with such a behemoth of a site. Just the thought of having to migrate a 1.66GB Oracle DB into a Drupal site makes me sweat. All things considered, I felt like this was probably the best session I attended at DrupalCon 2008. It wasn’t the nerdiest, or the geekiest, and it didn’t have lots of slides of code…but for our line of work, it was incredibly valuable. Not only did they go into the “nuts-n-bolts” of how they built the site, they also touched on the project management side, and also managing client expectations with such a large project.

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Jeff Miccollis and Young Hahn with DevelopmentSeed gave an excellent presentation at DrupalCon 2008 titled: Creating Custom Workflows for Drupal Apps: taking advantage of core hooks and context. The primary focus of this session was explaining the various methods of maintaining “context” throughout a Drupal site. In layman’s terms, this simply means a method of determining what content to display, or what actions to take based on where the user is currently located on the site. A simple example given was multi-lingual sites. A site may be in English by default, but if the user switches the site’s language to Spanish, then the there has to be some method in place to remember that this is the language this user has chosen, and we can assume that the user wishes to view the rest of the site in whatever language they have chosen. The language the user selected has become the “context” for the site. Now, any page that the user navigates to will be in Spanish, because the site has been implemented in a such a way as to remember the user’s chosen language.

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Addison Berry from Lullabot has posted the slides from his DrupalCon 2008 presentation: Contributing to Drupal: A guide for everyone.
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John VanDyk, author of Pro Drupal Development, and longtime Drupal developer/guru, has posted the slides and video of the presentation he gave at DrupalCon on triggers and actions. It was great presentation from one of Drupal’s founding fathers. Though centered around Drupal 6, many of the basic principals can be applied to Drupal 5’s Actions module. There is also word of backporting Triggers to Drupal 5!

If you missed the Boston DrupalCon 2008, don’t miss out on this wonderful session.
Files can be downloaded here…

Session: From Drupal Newbie to Drupal Ninja
Time: 9:00am (EST) 03/03/2008 Presenter: Chad Williams (hunmonk)

This presentation was targeted primarily at the Drupal newbie, and was mostly a “tips & tricks” session. Here are my notes from the session:

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Bob, Jared, and I just got to Boston for Drupalcon 2008! All week, we’ll be checking in and giving updates about what we’ve learned. If you’re in town for the convention, send me an email chayner {at} centresource.com and we’ll try to hook up for lunch!

For more information on the conference, check out http://boston2008.drupalcon.org