Drupalcon LA - Mediacurrent’s Gameplan

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:02:15 +0000

We’re gearing up for Drupalcon 2015 in sunny Los Angeles and we are looking forward to the exciting plans we have in store. We are Platinum sponsors once again and there are a ton of ways to connect with our team. In fact, here are the highlights:

14 people from Mediacurrent attending
25+ open slots for one-on-one conversations with our Drupal experts
4 Drupalcon sessions from our team
2 custom Drupalcon themed cornhole sets & 1 photo booth
1 epic after-party with us and our friends at Lingotek

Mediacurrent’s Sessions

I’m new to the Mediacurrent team and Drupal, so this will be my first Drupalcon. I’m looking forward to attending as many sessions as I can, including those led by my teammates. Our sessions this year include:

Translating Success In Drupal 8: The Manhattan Associates Story
Mediacurrent is working with with Manhattan Associates on one of the world’s first fully translated Enterprise Drupal 8 projects. Join Director of Client Services, James Rutherford for a deep dive into the project, including how Drupal 8 supports the client’s multilingual needs, how to prove ROI, and how to evaluate if Drupal 8 is the right choice for your project.

Weather.com: A Novel Presentation Framework
The Weather Channel (TWC) officially launched their new Drupal site in November 2014. Hear from Mediacurrent Senior Drupal Developer Matt Davis and TWC Senior Software Architect Jason Smith about the decision to implement a “headless” model, allowing for maximum flexibility and scalability, a necessity for one of the highest traffic Drupal sites in the world.

Advanced layouts with Flexbox
The CSS3 Flexible Box, or flexbox, is one of the latest and hottest techniques for achieving fluid and flexible website layouts. It lends itself perfectly to building responsive websites. Join Senior Front End Developer, Mario Hernandez, for a discussion on what flexbox is, how it works, and some real-life examples of what is promising to be the future of website layouts. He will also discuss some of flexbox’s shortcomings and how to get around them to ensure your website works well in all browsers.

State of The Panels Union - the Panels ecosystem on D7 and forwards to D8
Lead Drupal Architect Damien McKenna joins other leaders from the community to discuss the Panels ecosystem, covering a variety of modules, distributions, and community initiatives. Included will be an update on ongoing projects and the vision for Drupal 8 and beyond.

Don’t miss our Booth

The best way to connect with the Mediacurrent team is to visit us at our booth, #219. We have a great spot on the exhibition floor and plenty of room, so we are amping up the fun this year. Pick our brains, snap a group picture in our photo booth, pick up a t-shirt, or play cornhole. Speaking of cornhole, make sure you enter to win a set of Drupalcon themed boards!

Meet the Team

We are bringing a great cross-section of our team this year, and we are all looking forward to sharing ideas, trading stories, and learning something new. We’ll be taking turns at the booth, but if you want to speak with someone specific or talk shop someplace quieter than the exhibition floor, just schedule a one-on-one conversation.

Join the Mediacurrent and Lingotek After-Party

Finally, you can’t head to LA for a week without taking a little time to enjoy yourself. Mediacurrent and Lingotek are teaming up for the second year in a row to host an After-Party on Tuesday, 8pm-11pm at City Tavern. Stop by either booth for an invitation and remember to bring your Drupalcon badge for entry.

Anonymous Mon, 04/13/2015 - 15:02

2012 Drupalcamp Atlanta Presentations

Adam Waid — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:54:09 +0000

2012 Drupalcamp Atlanta Presentations

Did you miss a presentation at Drupalcamp Atlanta that you really wanted to see? Were there too many presentations that you wanted to attend at the same time? No worries, you can view all of the presentations at DrupalcampAtlanta.com

Below, you’ll find all of the presentations that the Mediacurrent team presented at Drupalcamp Atlanta. The presentations are available here, on our Resources page, and at DrupalcampAtlanta.com

Site Building With Display Suite

Jay Callicott - Product Manager, Lead Architect

From the Display Suite project page: "Display Suite allows you to take full control over how your content is displayed using a drag and drop interface. Arrange your nodes, views, comments, user data etc. the way you want without having to work your way through dozens of template files. A predefined list of layouts (D7 only) is available for even more drag and drop fun!"

Jay covers the following topics: Working with DS layouts; Adding DS fields to content types; Pros and cons of DS for display over Panels; DS tips and tricks - there are a lot of features in this module; Exporting DS to features.

Talking to Web Services

David Bassendine - Sr. Drupal Developer

Web services are a treasure trove of tools, content and data. David explores how you can use Drupal's frameworks to tap into these services. From strategy and selecting the right approach, to triggering, encoding and sending HTTP messages, David walks through how you might go about writing a custom integration that puts your Drupal build into a conversation with the outside world. Finally, David follows-up with real world examples he's built to interact with NASA's ECHO service and Twitter.

Drupal Wish List From a Newsroom

Jeff Diecks - VP, Professional Services & Duane Cross NCAA.com Managing Editor

In his career of managing newsrooms, publishing content and covering breaking news, Duane has experience with many different content management systems. As managing editor at NCAA.com, Duane and his staff use Drupal to cover the regular season and postseason for Divisions I, II and III of the 89 NCAA championships as well as the BCS title game.

Jeff Diecks from Mediacurrent, a former colleague of Duane's at NASCAR.COM, helps moderate a presentation and Q&A session with Duane to explore areas where Drupal can do better to help editors in a high-volume publishing environment.

What to Do When Things Go Wrong in Drupal

Damien McKenna - Lead Drupal Architect

Drupal's wide range of modules represent a tremendous amount of functionality that can be easily added to your site. Occasionally bugs and small glitches can be found in these modules, especially with newer modules that may not have been tested very thoroughly. Damien's session will help you work through the problem and hopefully be able to fix it without going crazy. He will also show how to report these problems to the module's maintainer so others can benefit from your solution, along with tips for issue queue etiquette and writing & applying patches.

Let's Dig into the Omega Theme

Kendall Totten - Drupal Designer + Theming Specialist

The Omega Drupal 7 Base Theme is a highly configurable HTML5/960 grid base theme that uses built-in media queries to make the site responsive. Each zone (group of regions) can be configured for content first layouts, that resize and rearrange themselves depending on the screen size of the user's device.

The presentation will walk-through the theory behind Omega's mobile-first approach, how to use the many configuration options on the theme settings page, pitfalls to avoid, and what's on the forecast for Omega 4.x!

Contrib First

Andrew Riley - Director of Drupal Development

Most of us create modules or themes as part of our daily jobs but only a fraction of them get released. This talk discusses an adjustment to how we think about creating modules/themes that make it so almost every module is released for just a small investment in time. Think of the benefits for you, your company and the community if you could increase your contributions by even one percent.

Speeding up Drupal development with Drush

Kevin Basarab - Sr. Drupal Developer & Chris Hales-DevOps Manager, Lead Architect

Drush is the swiss army knife of Drupal Development. It can do almost anything you need but many new users of Drupal don't understand why or how it can help speed the development process. In this session we skip the installation of Drush but go into the basic commands of Drush to help you download Drupal, install, download and install contrib modules plus use aliases to sync between a local and development environment.

Adam Waid Thu, 11/29/2012 - 12:54

Drupal Presentations

Drupalcon LA - Mediacurrent’s Gameplan

Mediacurrent’s Sessions

Don’t miss our Booth

Meet the Team

Join the Mediacurrent and Lingotek After-Party

2012 Drupalcamp Atlanta Presentations

Site Building With Display Suite

Talking to Web Services

Drupal Wish List From a Newsroom

What to Do When Things Go Wrong in Drupal

Let's Dig into the Omega Theme

Contrib First

Speeding up Drupal development with Drush