Coding and Development

The Coding and Development track is focused on educating developers on the latest techniques and tools for increasing the quality and efficacy of their projects. Topics will include best practices for coding and debugging in Drupal 8, making decisions and plans for migrating sites from earlier versions of Drupal or other systems, upgrading contrib to Drupal 8, engagement with other frameworks and technologies, high performance and large scale development experiences, and exploring the advantages of participating in open-source culture. Come share the vast wealth of knowledge and lessons learned and collaborate with other engineers from around the world!

Get off the island! But build bridges back

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Conference Year

2016

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

Speaker(s): adrian

Come learn how we built a completely independent PHP library with the express intent of then using it with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 modules at the same time. We're excited to share...

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Agile D8 Builds: Doing the Most Without PHP

mabfire

Conference Year

2016

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Beginner

Speaker(s): Matt Cheney, mbyrnes

One of the design philosophies behind Drupal 8 is the ability to make simple things easy and complex things possible. While there is a lot of neat stuff “under the...

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One Drupal to Rule Them All

ergonlogic

Conference Year

2016

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Advanced

The Aegir Hosting System is a Drupal-centric hosting framework, used by thousands of people and organizations, including NASA, NDI and SLAC. They use Aegir to automate all aspects of development and...

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git, for users of git

alison

Conference Year

2020

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

Now we're gonna have some INTERMEDIATE FUN!

That's right, I'm offering up useful tips, extra tricks, all sorts of practical advice you might not have even known you needed -- and FUN!

I'll share...

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How and when to migrate to DKAN 2.x

dharizza

Conference Year

2020

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

With the latest iteration of DKAN, lots of questions have emerged about the differences between DKAN 1.x and DKAN 2.x. As with any upgrade, people are understandably concerned about how to do the...

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Separating concerns in the backend with decoupled PHP classes and libraries

dafeder

Conference Year

2020

Co-Presenter(s)

fmizzell

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

We talk a lot about separation of concerns between front and back end, but getting more granular, separation of business logic into self-contained parts can be a big win for your Drupal project. Now...

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mock-chain: a library for easier unit testing in Drupal (and beyond!)

dafeder

Conference Year

2020

Co-Presenter(s)

fmizzell

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Advanced

Unit tests are a critical tool for development, ensuring that classes and functions aren't inadvertently broken by new code. While Drupal has moved toward modern PHP conventions and made unit testing...

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Before decoupling, understand JS. JavaScript for Drupalers: Let’s learn this

ashrafabed

Conference Year

2020

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

When it comes to building app-like websites, JavaScript frameworks have taken the web by storm. Where does this leave seasoned Drupal developers? Should we abandon our favored languages in favor of JS...

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Salesforce + Drupal = Powerful 360 Degree Connections

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Conference Year

2020

Session Track

Coding and Development

Experience Level

Intermediate

Background: Salesforce is a database of contacts as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, and Drupal is a database of content as a Content Management System (CMS). A surging number of...