Everybody knows about Webforms so why would we want a another survey/form system in Drupal? Entityforms takes a very different approach by using an entity and standards fields approach to forms.

This has many advantages including being able to use virtually any field module in Drupal. Now you can easily gather geographic information, reference site content and include media references in your surveys and other forms. It also allows for simple integration with popular Entity-aware modules such as Views, to handle submission lists and Rules, to handle notifications and form access.

Come and learn more about Entityforms and when you might want to use it(and when you won't).

Site-builders love Panels because it unleashes content, and clients love Panels for the In Place Editor (IPE). There is just one problem: no content is the same (and generic layouts do not always make the grade). The Panels Layout Builder partially solves the issue. But, what if your site is responsive? Your 30% column width will be just that, from mobile to desktop.

This session will cover how to add custom Panels layouts to your theme, utilize Sass, and responsive methods.

To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with basic Panels functionality, responsive web design, and Sass.

Resources & Links

Creating a custom Panels layout
https://drupal.org/node/495654

Singularity documentation
https://github.com/Team-Sass/Singularity/wiki

Responsive Panels layout referenced in slides
https://github.com/mglaman/responsive_panels_layouts

Radix, responsive Panels layouts module
https://drupal.org/project/radix_layouts

Slideshare of slides
http://www.slideshare.net/MattGlaman/rockin-responsive-content-with-panels

We were approached by one of our clients a good while back to differentiate some minor content on the site based on their different geographical markets and the location of the users visiting the site. Originally, this included just a few graphics, but as you are probably well-aware, true believer, this didn't satisfy them for long and additional features were desired. The appropriate combination of contributed modules didn't present themselves so custom modules and methods were developed to handle this feature set. What we found on our journey was a plethora of interesting trivia about the Drupal system and how to correctly workaround the "gotchas". Practical examples will be shown from our Drupal 6 build with concepts that are easily transportable and applicable to Drupal 7 platforms.

Look at the slides on Slideshare

Many Drupal users are not logging in to public facing websites. Applications "inside the firewall" can be easily built and maintained by Intermediate Drupal administrators. These internal applications often have more complicated functionality and workflows than public-facing websites, with all the bells and whistles like responsive mobile design, Organic Groups, Workbench Moderation and more.

We will begin with a brief overview of why one would choose Drupal and an overview of distributions commonly used, like OpenAtrium and Drupal Commons, and then give a case study of three custom-built internal websites:

* Orange County Public Library "Orange Peel"
* Proctors Theatre "Calendar and Help Tickets"
* Chautauqua Institution "Intranet"

We will give tips on estimating internal websites, maintaining them, adding new features, and share some wisdom from managers about the value of "rolling your own" internal web applications with Drupal. Finally, we will give some notes on integrating your Intranet with non-Drupal back-end applications.

Ryan Price is an independent web developer, who upgraded two Drupal 5 Intranet sites to Drupal 7 for Proctors and Chautauqua. He is an 8-year Drupal veteran and co-hosts the DrupalEasy Podcast.

Kristin Retaleato is a web developer for the Orange County Public Library System, and the maintainer of the Orange Peel.

There are many Drupal web sites in the wild that contain geographic information as part of the day-to-day content added to the site. User profile information, events, and content locations are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to content that can have geographic information assocated with it. With just a little bit of planning, this treasure trove of data can be turned into big, beautiful, and useful maps using contributed modules (and not one bit of code!)

This session with start with a quick slideshow providing an overview of some of the most useful mapping-related modules, including Address field, Geofield, Geocoder, and Leaflet. Following this, we'll walk though a full demonstration of how these modules can be easily put to use from start to finish. 

Attendees should expect to leave this session with actionable information on exaclty how to add beautiful mapping capabilities to their Drupal 7 site.

Full blog post and screencast of this material can be found at http://drupaleasy.com/x

In the first part of this presentation, we will give a brief overview of Open Atrium 2's robust capabilities for managing communications, knowledge, and teams. The second part will be a discussion on the essential planning required to build a successful Open Atrium site.

The goal is to provide an understanding of the building blocks and how people, content, permissions, and structure work together in Open Atrium.

This presentation is for people & teams who are considering using Open Atrium to build an intranet, collaboration site, or communication platform for their business or organization. We will stay out of deep code conversations and focus on achieving your business goals with Open Atrium.

There always seems to be a divide between the styles applied to the site regions, and the styles applied to the content itself. Where the "theme" ends and the WYSIWYG editor begins. And what about layouts within the content area? What do content editors do now that responsive design is a major factor in all of this?

Fear not! The Classy Panel Styles module has arrived on the scene. It builds on the drag and drop content layout freedom that Panels provides and allows editors to apply ready-made styles the themer has whipped up for them —without having to remember class names!

Beyond that, we'll show you how you can use these easy applicable styles to allow further flexibility with panel panes without requiring 101 different panels layouts.

We'll also talk about how this was all put together and how you can use it to create your own set of Classy Panel Styles.

This session is great for developers, themers, content editors and more.

Slides: http://bit.ly/classy-panel-slides
Sandbox: http://bit.ly/classy-panel-styles
Recording: http://youtu.be/5BcD6fVJbYI

Presented at the 2013 FLDC, this session was so popular we were asked to do it again!

Wouldn't it be great if you could use variables, nesting, operators/functions and more in your CSS? With SASS you can!

SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) is an amazing way to save time, energy and frustration in your CSS theming. With this session, we will outline the features of SASS with demonstrations and explain how to put it to use with your Drupal theming, from the simple to the complex!

We will explain the basics of SASS, Compass and other awesome features to help make your Drupal theming workflow easier.

New for 2014: We will also touch on other great resources and libraries to use with SASS, as its usage continues to grow and grow!

Youtube and slideshare.net are available!

This session will talk about Developing a custom project as a Team. We'll cover a common workflow for developing projects. We'll go over how to use git and github for the management of branches and pull requests. We'll go over code reviews, and some of things to watch out for. We'll look at the test framework Behat. And we'll discuss how this all fits into an "agile" development process.

I am the creator of the Coder module. I was the Release Manager for Examiner.com, one of the highest profile, highest traffic sites built with Drupal using D7 in the early days. I work for Tag1 Consulting and specialize in performance, scalability, and development workflow where these practices have been put to the test for many clients. I also write a semi-regular column in Drupal Watchdog.

I live in Florida and was at the very first Florida Drupal meetup.

One of the barriers to beginning with Drupal is getting a local development server running.

Numerous tools exist to make this easy, but sometimes they make things even more complicated. New users often spend more time trying to install various $AMP tools than they do learning Drupal.

You can develop your site locally using the same environment that you would deploy your site to.

I've been using [Vagrant](http://vagrantup.com) for a few years and have found it invaluable for Drupal Development.

In this two-hour workshop session we'll set up vagrant, virtualbox, and get a webserver running with a Drupal 7 installation.

You'll learn about the server that actually powers your Drupal site and how the various pieces tie together to show users what they see in their browser's window.

When we're done, you'll have a base machine that you can easily tear down, and start new with everything already installed.

Here is the box we built during the presentation:
vmboxen.s3.amazonaws.com/drupal_saucy32.box

If you know anything about Drupal 8, you'll know that there's a Symfony going on in the basement. What you might not know, is that a Composer is orchestrating all of the parts in one harmonious piece of beautiful music.

In this season, we'll learn:

• What Composer is and where it came from
• How to install Composer
• How you can use Composer in any PHP project
• The best practices when using Composer with Git
• How Symfony uses Composer
• How Drupal will use it in Drupal 8
• How Drupal will (hopefully) use it in the future.

The only thing you'll need for this concert of sorts is enough wit to run commands on the command line, and a basic understanding of PHP.

Imagine you are an artist who wants to build a site for your studio. You don’t know anything about building a site and you are intimidated by the prospect of building your own local development environment or installing drupal remotely on some shared hosting service. Instead you download and install Kalabox. Get some coffee while it spins up. When you return you’ll have an awesome local development environment with some of most well known and powerful Drupal tools at your fingertips, all accessible through a sexy and intuitive user interface. Easily spin up a new site and get started! When you’re done click deploy and push the site up to Pantheon. You’ve now got a website on the internet!

Imagine you are running a team of 15 developers and building an enterprise application. You need everyone to be on the same local environment, you need solr, you need tika, you need … a great starting point. Imagine being able to use Kalabox as a great starting point for your puppet manifests or chef recipes. Imagine being able to use your own custom provisioner. Imagine being able to test your site locally on Ubuntu LEMP one minute and Fedora LAMP the next. Imagine being able to deploy to your own OpenStack or OpenShift cloud.

This session will showcase how easy it is to get up and running with Kalabox. It will appeal to hardcore developers who need an awesome and customizable native linux local development stack to supercharge their development workflow but also to new users who just want to get started working with Drupal without all the annoying setup.

One of the barriers to beginning with Drupal is getting a local development server running.

Numerous tools exist to make this easy, but sometimes they make things even more complicated. New users often spend more time trying to install various $AMP tools than they do learning Drupal.

You can develop your site locally using the same environment that you would deploy your site to.

I've been using [Vagrant](http://vagrantup.com) for a few years and have found it invaluable for Drupal Development.

In this two-hour workshop session we'll set up vagrant, virtualbox, and get a webserver running with a Drupal 7 installation.

You'll learn about the server that actually powers your Drupal site and how the various pieces tie together to show users what they see in their browser's window.

When we're done, you'll have a base machine that you can easily tear down, and start new with everything already installed.

Here is the box we built during the presentation:
vmboxen.s3.amazonaws.com/drupal_saucy32.box

Every modern framework nowadays provides a scaffolding tool code generator for speeding up the process of starting a new project and avoid the repetitive tasks.

The purpose of this session is to build a module through a live demo and show how to take advantage of the Symfony Console Component to provide a CLI tool to automate the creation of Drupal 8 modules by generating the directory structure for a module, controllers, forms, services, plugins and required configuration files.

Topics included on the session:

- Composer
- YAML
- Namespaces
- Dependency Injection
- Annotations
- Routing
- Controller

By the end of this session you will learn how:
- Setting up a local environment for Drupal 8 using a Virtual Machine.
-- https://github.com/hechoendrupal/drupal8.dev

- Building modules for Drupal 8.
-- https://github.com/hechoendrupal/DrupalAppConsole

Session slides
http://jmolivas.com/slides/fldc14/introducing-drupal-8-console-scaffoldi...

Like an AMC Gremlin, a good site-builder can get you where you want to go, but you’ll look like a dope pulling up to the Oscars in one. Sometimes you need a convertible Aston Martin with a supercharger. Drupal gives you all the tools you need to build a beast like that, but you’re sure as heck not going to drive one off the third-party module lot.

Sometimes you need to write your own modules.

Don’t worry: You don’t need to be Dries to do this! There’s a tremendous amount of utility to be had at even a fairly basic level, and I can show you how to unlock it.

I’ll walk you step by step through the development of a bike mileage log, into which you can create, edit, and delete daily entries, and view the results in a themed table. This is the sort of thing you could pull off with a content-type and a view, but our version will be much leaner and much more user-friendly. Moreover, I’ll show you how to include some slick Ajax functionality without writing a lick of Javascript.

You’ll learn:

- The basic structure of a custom module
- How the hook system works
- How to debug Drupal modules, custom or otherwise
- How to use Drupal APIs, including the Form API, the Schema API, and the Database abstraction layer.

Even if you wind up never writing a full-blown custom module, knowing this material will make you a better Drupal developer, better equipped to solve problems with the modules you do use. Which, in turn, will drive a better reputation for our chosen platform. We all win!

This session will showcase how new developers, and savvy veterans can kickstart their Drupal projects with a well styled and responsive mobile-first theme in under 5 minutes with some Pantheon, Panopoly and Kalatheme magic.

Kalatheme is designed for people who want to get to work quickly so they can make things happen.

Rapidly build responsive, mobile first Bootstrap 3 driven subthemes with our easy to use and one of a kind subtheme generator. Kalatheme does the heavy lifting for you so don't worry about HTML5, CSS3, media queries or what your theme looks like on Internet Explorer 8. Plus, leverage the entire spectrum of Bootstrap themes, from Default Bootstrap, to Bootswatch to Custom-built Bootstrap themes. We even have support for Third Party bootstrap libraries so you can choose a start state from a myriad of styling options.

With Kalatheme you can also easily add custom CSS to any pane using the amazing Panels In Place Editor or toggle what panes show up on what devices. All views content pane grid displays are also automatically responsive.You never have to turn block.module on ever again.

Kalatheme is also for advanced developers too with solid SASS Tools and respect for grids of any size.

Drupal is a powerful content management and like most powerful things it needs good security! Come to this talk to learn best practices for securing your Drupal site and understand how to prevent common attacks.

* Learn practical security practices in the following areas:
* Setting up permissions, roles and users
* Accepting user content with input formats
* Keeping up to date with Update Status
* How Drupal Security Team works
* Securing your hosting environment

Learn about and how to avoid the following kinds of attacks

* Cross-site scripting attacks
* Cross-site request forgery
* SQL injection
* Menu access checks
* Node access checks

The goal of this session is to introduce developers and designers to what Owners, Executives, Hiring Managers and HR Personnel look for when adding members to their team. It doesn't matter if you're brand new to the industry or a 'grizzled vet'...this session is designed to give you some insights into what, where, when, why and how decision-makers in our industry actually want to hire YOU!

Intro - Why do I care what THIS guy thinks?
What do I really need to do to impress someone enough to get an interview?
What skills do I really need (other than being a code junkie?!?)
What makes someone 'ferocious'?
Designers vs. Developers vs. Everyone Else
The power of diversity!
Culture. It's all about the Culture :-)
Why Drupal matters (but why it isn't EVERYTHING)

Being a genius developer is one thing, being a great designer is another but without the proper process of managing a client, you may never get any work. What happens once the contract is signed? What expectations does your client have during the process? Too many times, development houses are too quick to get a contract (maybe) and get the start fee, but keep the client in the dark until you are finish, or so you think.

This session will show you what documentation is needed to make the developer/client relationship strong from the moment they tell you they have an idea until they are ready to redevelop their whole website three years later. We will focus on the proper documentation, client communication, and case studies to help with future projects.

Drupal 7 is a powerful, robust tool, that allows your site to grow in almost any way imaginable. But with this flexibility comes a learning curve. Drupal 7 has a reputation for being hard to use, harder to learn, slow, and only easy to develop if you know exactly what you're doing.

Don't get me wrong, those of us who do know Drupal, usually love Drupal, and we can become very efficient at using it to do a great number of wonderful things. We often love Drupal so much that we pour hours of our time, our hearts and often our souls into maintaining contributed modules, creating and posting patches, and helping others in the community.

But let's look into the future for a minute. Drupal 8 will probably be easier to use, but harder to learn. It will be slower to run (unless you have a beefy hosting environment), and completely different to develop code for. Developers for Drupal 8 are going to be more expensive, harder to find, and development time is going to be longer (at least initially) as everyone learns the new systems.

Small to medium-sized businesses are already feeling the increasing development (and hosting) costs that are associated with running Drupal websites. How much of the Drupal ecosystem is made up of these sites, people, and developers? How will they fare in a Drupal 8 world? How does that affect the entire Drupal ecosystem?

I'd like to offer an alternative to Drupal 8: BackDrop CMS.

Backdrop CMS is a fork of Drupal. It splits from Drupal 8 very early in the development cycle, before the introduction of the Symfony framework. It's code is similar to that of Drupal 7 (meaning any Drupal 7 developer should be able to get Backdrop) but also includes features comparable to those in Drupal 8 including CMI and views in core.

The primary goal of the Backdrop project is to decrease the barrier to entry. This includes lowering the system requirements (meaning more affordable hosting) as well as making the interface easier to use, and the code easier to learn. With each significant change that's made, the benefits are carefully weighed against the cost of change.

Come hear more about Backdrop CMS.

Is it your dream to work for a Drupal shop? Don't want to relocate? What if I told you that some Drupal shops hire remote employees? Have I got your attention yet?

I've got personal experience and lots of cool stuffs to share about this subject.

If you're in the market for a new job doing what you love and think working remotely is for you, come check out what it's like being a remote employee and how to find these opportunities.

I'll share the good, the bad and the ugly. Want to know what the average day is like? How about the challenges I face and how I deal with them?

If that doesn't scare you away, I'll conclude with tips and hints on where to find these elusive remote opportunities and what to do to prepare for the treacherous interview process.

Here's what you can look forward to:
What it's like to be a remote employee
What the challenges are
How to find remote employment opportunities