DrupalCon SF 2010 Summary

Summary of Sessions/BoFs attended by Hector Iribarne

Session: Drupal for Architects

• Presenter: Jeff Eaton• Menu API – handles key tasks (e.g. routing)• Database Abstraction Layer (easier in D7)• Session Handling (tracking user session)• Output filtering (e.g. XSS, file storage,

localization, form processing, Batch API, etc.)• Team: Architect, Builder, Developer, Designer,

Themer and Migration Mule

BoF: Semantic Web

• Presenter: David Seth• Slides:

http://davidseth.net/bof-drupalcon-rdfa-semantic-web-and-distributed-social-networks

• FOAF (Friend of a Friend) + SSL : (authentication like Open ID) Create certificate (e.g. FOAF.me) to use across websites

• RDFa – embed rich metadata, enhance SEO• Semantic Web Libraries – http://freebase.com,

http://dbpedia.org

Session: Services Module (Pg.1)

• Presenter: Greg Dunlap (started:Scott Nelson)• Services make Drupal mashable • Services is made up of three Components:

Servers, Authentication, Services• Servers (receive/render requests): XMLRPC,

JSON, JSON-RPC, REST, AMFPHP• Authentication: API Keys, Drupal Sessions,

oAuth (future of Services)

Session: Services Module (Pg.2)

• Services: Nodes, Users, Files, System, Search, (your stuff here), etc.

• Extending Services: Implement hook_service()• Version 3 (D6 + D7)– More flexible endpoints– CORE only– CRUD-based resources– More REST centric– Lots of API cleanup and DX improvements

BoF: VoIP

• Presenters: Leo Burd and Chad Phillips• Slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/leoburd/20100420-vddrupal-consf2010-3803885

• Currently use the Asterisk module (record a message and post it to a Drupal node)

• Future: VoIP module (support Asterisk, Freeswitch.org, etc.)

• Use XMLRPC

BoF: High Performace (UI)

• Slides:http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhtnd39r_22fp6tcnfm

• Use the hash mark (i.e. #) to cache parts of a page (browser ignores everything after #)

• Jquery BBQ (now in D7) http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/

• DOM is getting bigger• Use Views and AJAX VIEWS. JS

Session: Mobile App Dev

• Presenters: Aaron Pavia and Sumit Kataria from Civic Actions

• Drupal as a base for mobile• Looked at Phone Gap (web-kit based, no

native functionality) and Titanium mobile (better choice with native functionality)

• Use JS and WebViews

Additional Links

• Aegir– http://github.com/bwood/puppet-aegir– http://drupal.org/project/provision_boost– http://www.mig5.net/content/drupal-

deployments-workflows-version-control-drushmake-and-aegir

• DrupalCon sessions:– http://www.archive.org/search.php?

query=drupalcon%20sf%202010