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True Life: I’m an introvert in an extroverts world

Do you shy away from speaking up in a room when it’s completely silent? Do you prefer to maintain a mythical bubble around your entire body? Does the prospect of addressing a room on your own make you perspire and/or shake? Well do I have a session for you!

A Smarter Approach to Recurring Events in Drupal

Modern websites often need to manage recurring events. Drupal has a number of options available to help, but the setup can be complex, especially if your site needs to manage both recurring and one-off dates, and present them together, for example in a calendar display. The Smart Date module can help you manage recurring events, and was specifically designed to make it as simple as possible. Through discussion of the module's approach (including how it differs from other available options), and first-hand demonstrations you'll experience:

Simplifying the Drupal frontend with Single File Components

Doing front-end in Drupal can be confusing, for experienced developers and newcomers alike. A task like "Add the 'blue' class to all Articles and style it" might take modifying a preprocess function, adding a Twig template, compiling SASS, and more.

TDD - Test Driven Drupal

Automated testing is important. Why? It allows developers to add new features and edit and refactor existing code without the worry of adding regressions, reduces the reliance on manual testing to discover bugs, and by taking a test driven approach, your implementation code is leaner as you only write what is needed for your tests to pass.

Developing Custom Views Plugins: Falling back in love with Views

Many developers have a complicated relationship with Views. The module offers a wide-range of out-of-the box functionality, including: query building, routing, cache controls, permissions, menu integration, and display rendering logic, among others.

Back-end developer essential guide to front-end browser testing and debugging tools

Flexbox, CSS grid, accessibility, device testing, JavaScript performance metrics - those are just part of day-to-day front-end developer life. Front-end development is definitely more complex today than it has been a few years ago. This means that it's harder for back-end developers to jump in and assist without knowing tools of the trade.

Accessible Marketing Practices

Adopting an accessible marketing strategy can save time and money but what does that look like? In this session, we’ll talk through practical ways to incorporate accessibility into the marketing practices you’re already doing. Come away from this session with an understanding of how to:

Documentation is like a plant - you need to tend to it!

Documentation is often the part of a project or organization that gets ignored or left behind. At best, it’s created as a deliverable and then set aside to collect dust, never updated, amended, or edited. But documentation is a living thing! It’s like a plant, you need to water it and tend to it and keep it alive! 

The Webform module's greatest hits, combined by an AMA

For the past four years, dozens of new and cool features have been added to the Webform module for Drupal 8. This presentation will walk-thru the Webform module's greatest hits with some rare gems from the feature vault. You are guaranteed to learn something new about the Webform module, especially because you can "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) during this online presentation. Participants are invited to help answer people's questions via chat by posting recommendations and links.

Best practices for building multilingual sites in Drupal 8

Drupal is well known for building multilingual sites due to its native support for building multilingual sites and versatile multilingual API.  Due to globalization, it is essential to have a multilingual site to sever the visitors in their own language and attract a very diverse audience. In this session, we will be sharing lessons we learned while building a multilingual site that serves millions of requests a month. We will discuss: