Drupal's Payment API -- http://drupal.org/project/pay -- is a simple, flexible and pluggable payment transaction handler for Drupal. Advantage Labs has recently extended the functionality of the Payment API and built a crowdsource pledge-funding feature using contributed Drupal modules.
Media is a module which has been in development for several years. The goal is to provide a light Digital Asset Management solution for Drupal. This means fields on files, interfaces for browsing and embedding files and the ability to reference media all over the internet. I'll be demoing some of the functionality, showing you how to set it up on your D7 site and discussing the roadmap.
Pantheon (currently in provate beta) is a wonderful hosted development environment and hosting platform designed and optimized from the ground up for Drupal, and embodies best-practices scalability and optimization practices, combined with an elegant, easy-to-use development interface. I will walk through the system from a developer's perspective, addressing some current challenges with scripts and step-by-step techniques for streamlining your local development workflow with DAMP and Mac OS X.
The Drupal project uses "issue queues" to discuss problems and proposed new features for Drupal core, documentation, and contributed projects. In this presentation, I'll show you the basics of how to report an issue or propose a new feature, how to participate in discussions, the etiquette of reports and responses, and some tips on how to get your proposals accepted.
Presented by Jennifer Hodgdon (jhodgdon), a leader of the D.O. documentation team.
This session will provide an intro Drush, from download and use to rapidly increasing your Drupal site building. We will also talk about Drush Make and maybe how features works with it all.
Drupal7 Site building - Is it all that different in Drupal7? Not really, but it's different enough that you might get lost along the way as you navigate the changes. Join us and take the short path to getting up to speed on the Drupal7 way of doing things!
Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. If you know how to extend it, well, you're golden. But how do all of Views' moving parts fit together?
This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins, handlers, and supporting new tables. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. There will be much reading of code.
