News from DrupalCon DC

Jeremy Epstein19 March 2009

Cool t-shirts!

Biggest DrupalCon ever (again) 1,400 people Like the Drupal community at large, continues to

double in size each year DrupalCon getting a bit too big, too corporate

D7 timeline announced

drupal.org Redesign complete Mark & Leisa talked

about redesign, usability testing, “open source design”, community process – great pres

d.o upgraded to d6 ApacheSolr on d.o Now working on

implementing redesign Mark & Leisa now

helping with d7 usability

What’s new in D7

Fields in core RDFa in core 78% test coverage Database: next gen

Why I Hate Drupal (walkah) NIH (Not Invented Here) “Do-ocracy”, drupal devs

never sleep, many contribute but get no recog

drupal_alter arrays instead of objects “Simple” image uploading High learning curve Usability and admin

screen still crap compared to Joomla / WP

Module admin page baad

Deployment and migration Development Seed: Context, Spaces, Exportables Panel discussion on deployment: Sacha Chua (.install

scripts), Heyrocker (Deploy module), Shawn (Warner Bros Records)

Chris Bryant: Patterns module Moshe and MikeRyan: migration, table wizard module More: http://www.greenash.net.au/posts/thoughts/

deployment-and-migration-hot-at-drupalcon-dc

Totally rocking your dev env (sacha)

Use VCS – git, svn, whatever Maintain a clean vendor branch Use firebug! Use Xdebug (or some PHP debugger) Use SimpleTest Use build tools (e.g. make, ant)