Session Archive

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Drupal Security Testing using OWASP ZAP

Conference Year:
2021
Presenter(s): paola.garciacardenas

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

Session Track: Devops, Performance, Security, and Privacy
Technical Level: Beginner

Drupal Static Sites (plus future of VA.gov)

Conference Year:
2021
Presenter(s): ElijahLynn

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! 

Session Track: Devops, Performance, Security, and Privacy
Technical Level: Intermediate

Dynamic Content Display and Organization with Panels

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): jasonglisson

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!…

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Beginner

Dyslexia tools - A good idea for 508+?

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): gillick, ptsao

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

Session Track: Design, UX, and Accessibility
Technical Level: Beginner

EEOC.gov – Modernized Experience & Performance on Drupal 8

Conference Year:
2020
Presenter(s): bencoit

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.…

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Beginner

Embracing Continuous Delivery and Blue/Green Deployments with Drupal 7 and 8

Conference Year:
2017
Presenter(s): emilyscala

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?

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Advanced

Empowering Site Managers With Atomic Design and Drupal Paragraphs

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): cneigh

Speaker(s): jjones, cneigh, epravlis

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Intermediate

Enhance Content Discovery

Conference Year:
2017
Presenter(s): wwhurley

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

Session Track: Coding and Development
Technical Level: Intermediate

Entity References gone wild: How relationships can sink your project.

Conference Year:
2018
Presenter(s): japerry

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?

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Intermediate

EPA Drupal WebCMS Training Program

Conference Year:
2018
Presenter(s): Jdew01, susanfagan

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

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Beginner

ERD is the Word: Simplifying Content Structure

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): cleake

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.

Session Track: Content Strategy and Analytics
Technical Level: Intermediate

Extending Drupal 8 with Plugins

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): wwhurley

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:

Session Track: Coding and Development
Technical Level: Intermediate

Facilitating goal-driven retrospectives to build your team's growth mindset

Conference Year:
2021
Presenter(s): session-archive-bot

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.

Session Track: Project and Team Management
Technical Level: Intermediate

FedRAMP from a Project Manager's Perspective

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): session-archive-bot

Speaker(s): mlow

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

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Beginner

Finding Your Perfect Vendor Match

Conference Year:
2017
Presenter(s): eschaffe

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

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Intermediate

Free, Libre and Open Source Software and You

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): session-archive-bot

Speaker(s): Damien McKenna

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Beginner

Friends Close, Users Closer: Designing for Real Audiences in Government Projects

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): carlislesargent, Matt Burge

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

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Beginner

From User Acceptance Testing to Automated Testing

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): stephencross

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.

Session Track: Coding and Development
Technical Level: Beginner

From User Story Mapping to component-driven development: techniques for building agile Drupal teams via a Discovery Sprint

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): kevinjosephwalsh, fmizzell

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…

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Intermediate

Future of the CMS: Centrally managed content across all devices

Conference Year:
2018
Presenter(s): Todd Nienkerk

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.

Session Track: Content Strategy and Analytics
Technical Level: Intermediate

Future proofing design work with Web components

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): btopro
Session Track: Design, UX, and Accessibility
Technical Level: Intermediate

Get off the island! But build bridges back

Conference Year:
2016
Presenter(s): session-archive-bot

Speaker(s): adrian

Session Track: Coding and Development
Technical Level: Intermediate

Getting Started With Layout Builder for Drupal 9

Conference Year:
2021
Presenter(s): danny englander

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

Session Track: Site Building and Using Drupal
Technical Level: Intermediate

git, for users of git

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): alison

Now we're gonna have some INTERMEDIATE FUN!

Session Track: Coding and Development
Technical Level: Intermediate

Google Analytics 201

Conference Year:
2019
Presenter(s): Andrew_Mallis

I was a self-taught Google Analytics user. I thought I was getting by OK.

Session Track: Community and Being Human
Technical Level: Beginner