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Sleep Better at Night with a Secure Drupal Site

Are you losing sleep, worrying about your Drupal site’s security? That isn’t healthy! With Drupal being used for building websites and applications in government, non-profits, higher education, and corporate enterprises, it is important to make sure that projects follow regulatory and organizational security controls. Are you ready to learn how to take immediate steps to improve the security of your Drupal installation? Great, let’s get get started.

After 5 years, my dream Drupal component workflow is finally here

Over the life of Drupal 8 the options to integrate design system components into your project has improved, but have always felt somewhat incomplete. While Twig brought the ability to import or embed templates, the data mapping process could be challenging to newcomers and often falls out of sync with display options in Drupal’s admin UI. The UI Patterns Module greatly improved component management using Drupal’s admin UI, but integration modules varied and using UI Patterns with Layout Builder had some limitations. 

Managing People: The Art & The Science

As a project manager, I’m often tasked with managing client schedules, timelines, meetings, tasks and recaps. However, the most complex and difficult deliverable I’m responsible for every day: managing people. Fortunately, I've found a way to manage people combining the art of the individual and meeting them where they're most comfortable utilizing the science behind why they're comfortable there.

Building Websites That Protect User Privacy

This session will provide an overview on how to protect user privacy, including avoiding sharing website visitor traffic outside of your organization.

Advanced Google Analytics (and other) integrations with GTM and dataLayer

While any site builder can quickly integrate Drupal with Google Analytics (GA) using the Google Analytics module, organizations are increasingly choosing to leverage Google Tag Manager (GTM) to integrate a variety of services (including GA) without requiring developer time and a deployment whenever new services or other changes are needed. In this talk, we'll cover:

New CSS Tech: Tell Your Designers!

CSS has been moving at a rapid pace within the past few years, and with the advent of evergreen browsers, your end users can make use of these features right away! In this session, I'm going to walk designers and front-end developers through new features that unlock new design paradigms and interactions. We'll delve into cool new technologies such as

Beyond Static: The JAMstack is much more than just static sites

Content editors love the content management workflows that a CMS provides out-of-the-box. Developers love the experience of using modern front end tools like Gatsby. Can we have the best of both worlds? Yes, we can. However, opting for a decoupled architecture requires a mindset shift. How you implement this, it will introduce different challenges to overcome and factors to consider.

Maximizing Composer

As a (aspiring or otherwise) professional Drupal developer, taking full advantage of what Composer has to offer can pay dividends. This session will provide some tips and tricks for using Composer with Drupal 8 and 9 projects, as well as provide a sneak peak at the improvements in the next major version of Composer.

Understanding React.js

React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal has recently adopted the library to create admin interfaces. This session aims to explain the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. Many examples will be presented to help you understand it and why it is so powerful. During the talk you will learn how to convert a static site into a dynamic React application.

Layout Builder Components Can Break Your Site—Part 2

This is Part 2 of the topic I delivered at DrupalCon 2020: Layout Builder components can break your site. Here's how. Watch Part 1 first to understand the problem that site builders, back-end developers and site architects face to ensure that several critical features of Drupal, including page revisioning, Workflow and Workspaces, don't break. Here is some feedback from the first session: