2016

Git is a powerful tool to help create, deploy, and maintain your Drupal website, but devs are sometimes intimidated by its scale - the adds! The commits! The merge conflicts! Too often, busy firms...

Speaker(s): eric.napier

In this session we will examine best practices from the Behavior-Driven Development community and apply these principles to automated testing in Drupal. This session will...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories with the largest number a physics Nobel prizes (4) of any U.S. government...

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...

Speaker(s): hrodrig

In government, client/vendor relationships are often fraught with many challenges from the onset: RFPs are written before site needs can truly be discovered and architected, web...

Approaching a platform transition requires proper planning and execution on top of a serious technical architecture. In this session, we’ll discuss the migration of NYSenate.gov from the perspective...

From our last slide, for easier reference

• The VM we used for this session: https://github.com/DSFederalInc/drupal7-behat-vagrant-setup
• Fantastic quick-start guide from Behat.org documentation: http...

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:

• Blocks
• Fields
• Widget
• REST resources
• Image...

It is considered best practice in website development to create a content model. The role of the architect is to define the perfect model, assessing the content, defining fields, and passing it to the...