Session Archive

The security of our web applications plays a huge role in the success of our federal enterprise websites and their continuous improvements and updates.

Did you know you can take your entire Drupal site and convert it into a static site? running the same Drupal theme? Yep. You can run your entire Drupal site as a static site now! 

Drupal’s template system is great, but for content editors with little to no PHP experience, it can be tough to create custom page layouts. If you need to spin up a dynamic page quickly or create a new page layout, Panels is the module for you!…

Accessibility is a big deal for government websites. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act covers sight, hearing, Parkinson’s -- all sorts of challenges.

Ten-plus years since its last platform update, EEOC.gov recently underwent a complete redesign and re-platform to better serve its constituents by moving to Drupal 8 on Microsoft Azure. In this session, you’ll hear from the EEOC.gov build team.…

When’s the last time you had a production release go off bug-free with zero downtime? Now when’s the last time you did it twenty times in a day?

Speaker(s): jjones, cneigh, epravlis

Session Recording: https://youtu.be/YKhfGg7Or9M

One of Drupal's biggest strengths is its ability to create semantic relationships between pieces of data. But what happens when site builders take these relationships too far?

We have a One EPA Web philosophy at EPA.gov along with 39 web standards. We built the WebCMS to support those requirements.

What do entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) and database design have to do with content strategy? More than you’d think. Web content lives in databases, and how you structure your content determines the shape of those databases.

Switching to Symfony for Drupal 8 means changing how you add new functionality to your site. Many of these are implemented as Plugins, for instance:

Retrospectives are the time within a sprint that a team has the opportunity to reflect on their way of working. They try to understand how they can become better at what they do and how they do it.

Speaker(s): mlow

So you’ve just found out that your Government Agency is moving their portfolio to FedRAMP – Now What?

Session Recording: https://youtu.be/uwICatHRTkg

Speaker(s): Damien McKenna

During this session, we will talk about who our digital projects are actually serving, compared to who we often find ourselves designing for.

Development workflows, continuous integration and automated testing are a hot topics, and should be.  As teams rush to implement and improve their DevOps strategies, one thing hasn’t changed, testing is a afterthought.

If you’ve been around web development for a few years, you’ve probably experienced the pitfalls of “waterfall” discovery sprints, in which a perfected vision of a website is designed and documented in a set of static mockups and functional…

Content! It’s everywhere! It’s displayed on websites and in apps. It’s streamed to smartphones, televisions, and watches. It’s heard on podcasts, radios, and Amazon Alexa.

SLIDES: https://www.slideshare.net/btopro/future-proofing-design-work-with-web-components

Speaker(s): adrian

This session will cover the basics of getting started with Layout Builder for Drupal 9.

Now we're gonna have some INTERMEDIATE FUN!