All talks from DrupalCon Los Angeles - May 2015

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015:

This talk focuses on best practices for maximizing sponsorship impact at DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015....

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Enough with the Pretty Brochures

This talk features Gus Murray, Chief Strategy & Insights Officer at Propeople, as he explores how di...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Symfony Framework: Your Free New Toolkit

This talk introduces the Symfony Framework to developers who are familiar with Drupal 8, emphasizing...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Driesnote Keynote

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Prenote: Snow Beauty and the 101 Mermaids of Notre DOM

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Content + eCommerce in Japan

This talk discusses how Lush Japan addressed the challenges of its expanding eCommerce business by i...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Battle for the Body Field

This talk focuses on the challenges of managing semi-structured content in the body field of Drupal...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Scaling Your Business Starts with the Right Spreadsheets

This talk focuses on the challenges and strategies of starting and growing a Drupal shop, emphasizin...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal.org changes to support first time contributors and mentors

This talk explores recent changes to Drupal.org aimed at improving the experience for first-time con...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8 Theming with Love

This talk focuses on the significant changes to the theme system in Drupal 8, highlighting the trans...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: You Are A Golden God

This session focuses on the importance of automation in agile development to enhance business value...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8 Media Status Update

This talk addresses the progress of the Drupal 8 Contrib Media Team regarding the enhancements in me...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: 0 to MVP in 40 minutes

This talk showcases the collaboration between Coder and Themer as they create a fully functional Dru...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Building secure sites with Drupal

This talk addresses the critical issue of security for Drupal sites in the face of increasing cyber...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Agile Design and Planning Techniques

This talk focuses on the agile planning process tailored for award-winning Drupal websites. The spea...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The path to Symfony 3.0

This talk covers the transition from Symfony 2.x to Symfony 3.0, which is scheduled for release in N...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Wonderful World of (Web) Typography

This talk covers the fundamentals of typography and its critical role in web design. The speaker dis...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Making the Leap from a Drupal Shop to a Product Company

This talk explores the challenges and strategies involved in transitioning from consulting to more s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8 CMI on Managed Workflow

This talk explores the transformative Drupal 8 Configuration Management Initiative (CMI), which revo...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Content strategy for Drupal.org

This talk focuses on the Drupal Association's effort to reinvent Drupal.org in collaboration with Fo...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Why and How of Front End Architecture

This talk covers the evolution of front-end web development and the critical factors in selecting th...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Site Building like a Software Engineer

This talk emphasizes the critical importance of site building in Drupal, arguing that it should be v...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Fighting Core FUD: We Need a Contrib Champion

This talk addresses the challenges posed by the introduction of Drupal 8 and the implications it has...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: 4 Webmasters and the Drupal Shining Star

This talk explores the challenges faced by the University of the West Indies in making its campuses...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8: The Crash Course

This talk explores the evolution of Drupal 8, highlighting its significant architectural changes and...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Kalabox 2: Your Workflow Companion

This talk introduces the latest version of Kalabox, a development tool designed to streamline the on...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Composer Tools and Frameworks for Drupal

This talk explores the critical role of Composer as the primary PHP dependency management tool, high...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Rendering HTML with Drupal

This talk explores the complexities of Drupal theming, addressing whether the goal is to create a de...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Personalization and Drupal: An Inside View to the World's Biggest Brands

This talk explores the evolution of digital customer engagement through the use of personalization s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Selling Agile

This talk addresses the practical implementation of agile methodologies within Drupal companies, par...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Learnings from our launched Drupal 8 Core customer projects

This talk covers the early adoption of Drupal 8 Core for building customer websites, emphasizing the...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: State of The Panels Union

This talk provides an update on the Panels module ecosystem in Drupal 7, featuring insights from key...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Inside Los Angeles' Move to Drupal

This talk covers the City of Los Angeles project aimed at transforming existing government service s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Translating Success In Drupal 8: The Manhattan Associates Story

This session explores the strategic collaboration between Mediacurrent, Lingotek, and Manhattan Asso...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Designing End-to-End Experiences: Why we need Service Experience Design

This talk explores the concept of Service Experience Design (SXD), emphasizing that designing a webs...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: PHP Containers at Scale: 5K Containers per Server

This talk covers advanced techniques for managing production containers, drawing from experiences at...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Decoupling Drupal modules into PHP libraries: a Commerce 2.x primer

This talk explores the reciprocal relationship between the Drupal and Symfony ecosystems, focusing o...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8's render pipeline

This talk provides a comprehensive overview of the improved render pipeline in Drupal 8, highlightin...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: A "plain Drupal English" guide to the remaining Drupal 8 criticals

This talk focuses on the critical Drupal 8 issues that are likely to remain as DrupalCon LA approach...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How to Run a Drupal Agency

This talk features Steve Parks, a seasoned entrepreneur and a key member of the management team at W...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Better tools for content creators

This talk explores the Paragraphs module in Drupal, highlighting how it empowers content creators to...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal at Sea with Princess Cruises

This talk explores the development of Princess@Sea, an innovative digital experience platform for Pr...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Better performance with Apache/Nginx

This talk explores how an Apache/Nginx hybrid server setup surpasses pure Apache in performance and...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How Jenkins can work for the Whole Team

This talk introduces Jenkins as a transformative tool for development workflows, highlighting its ab...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: De-mystifying client discovery

This talk focuses on the discovery phase of projects, highlighting its significance as the foundatio...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Local and remote testing with DrupalCI

This talk delves into the 'Modernizing Testbot' initiative and introduces the DrupalCI project, whic...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Building a Sustainable Recruiting Strategy for Drupal and Beyond

This talk focuses on developing a reliable and sustainable hiring process that leverages proactive r...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Avoiding the Git of Despair

This talk explores the intersection of Git and deployment strategies in a Drupal context, particular...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Constructive Conflict Resolution

This talk addresses the constructive nature of conflict within the Drupal community and highlights t...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How Pac-12 Networks Delivers Live TV with Drupal

This talk explores how Pac-12 Networks integrates Drupal with their internal broadcast systems to au...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Designing Together, Apart

This talk explores the shift from traditional collocated design teams to distributed models in the d...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Data Serialization with Symfony & Drupal

This talk introduces the built-in RESTful API of Drupal 8, designed to expose content in standardize...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Silex: I shall call it mini-Symfony!

This talk introduces Silex, described as a lightweight microframework built on Symfony components, i...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8 Theme System: hook_theme() to Twig template

This talk focuses on the Twig templating engine in Drupal 8, which has transformed the theme system...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Memorial Sloan Kettering: Adventures in Enterprise Drupal 8

This talk covers Memorial Sloan Kettering's innovative transition from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, focusin...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Style Guide Driven Development: All hail the robot overlords!

This talk explores the challenges of keeping pace with front-end development and emphasizes the need...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Defense in Depth: Lessons learned securing 100,000 Drupal Sites

This talk addresses the essential strategies for securing websites in light of various vulnerabiliti...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Lean, Collaborative Usability Testing

This talk covers the challenges teams face regarding time and budget constraints for user testing, a...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: What’s Next for Drupal.org: Updates on Strategic Initiatives

This talk features Josh Mitchell, the CTO of the Drupal Association, who provides an update on the S...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Making Drupal fly - The fastest Drupal ever is near!

This talk explores the depths of Render Caching and its impact on enhancing Drupal's performance. Th...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Views for Beginners (in Drupal 8)

This talk introduces the powerful Views module in Drupal, which enables the creation of dynamic cont...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Planning and executing a Sprint

This talk explores the effectiveness of sprints in advancing open source projects, using the release...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Calls in the middle of the night!

This talk features a panel of industry leaders discussing the global expansion of Drupal and its imp...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: SecondScreen for a national TV show

This talk explores the development of SecondScreen websites designed for television shows, highlight...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Decoupled Drupal: When, Why, and How

This talk explores the growing trend of decoupled architecture in web development, focusing on the s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Keynote by Whitney Hess

This talk features Whitney Hess, a coach, writer, and speaker dedicated to infusing humanity back in...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Creating a Culture of Performance

This talk focuses on the importance of performance considerations throughout the entire project life...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Routes, controllers and responses: The Basic Lifecycle of a D8 Request

This talk explores the basic lifecycle of a Drupal 8 (D8) request, focusing on the process that incl...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Multilingual module madness! Which i18n modules do you really need?

This talk focuses on configuring a multilingual site using Drupal 7, exploring the extensive range o...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: If I Only Had a Frame(work)

This talk examines the challenges developers and UX designers face in creating cohesive user experie...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal is not your website

This talk serves as a primer on enterprise concepts applicable to Drupal development, particularly f...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Pain points of learning and contributing in the Drupal community

This talk focuses on enhancing opportunities for new contributors in the Drupal community. The speak...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Great Consolidation: Entertainment Weekly Migration Case Study

This talk covers the migration of EW.com from Vignette 6 CMS and multiple WordPress blogs to a unifi...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Creating a Culture of Empowerment

This talk, presented by Todd Nienkerk, explores the critical role of empowerment in building success...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Making Syfy.com Out of this World

This talk focuses on the transformation of Syfy.com into a visually stunning and responsive digital...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Birds, bees and monster fish: how Drupal serves global biosecurity

This talk discusses the International Biosecurity Intelligence System (IBIS), a Drupal-based web cra...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Meet Commerce 2.x

This talk focuses on the evolution of Drupal Commerce from its foundation on Drupal 7 to its advance...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Designing for Brains: the Psychology of User Experience

This talk explores the significance of user research in understanding not just user tasks but also t...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Using Grunt to Manage Drupal Build and Testing Tools

This talk explores the advancements in Drupal development, highlighting the use of Drush make files...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Front-End Efficiency with BEM Syntax and Atomic Design

This talk addresses the challenges of architecting large-scale front-end projects, focusing on the i...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How do we encourage repeat contributions to Drupal Core?

This talk focuses on strategies to enhance the success rate of first-time contributors in the tech c...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Building Your (Drupal-based) Business

This talk focuses on the challenges of building a successful business within the Drupal ecosystem, a...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: API Design: The Musical

This talk explores the fundamentals of designing an API with a focus on utilizing Drupal as a headle...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Estimation - A science not an art

In this session, the speaker explores the complexities of software estimation and the various pitfal...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: CI for CSS: Creating a Visual Regression Testing Workflow

This talk focuses on automated perceptual diffing, a method for capturing, tracking, and analyzing s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Using Subtree Splits to spread Drupal into everything

This talk discusses the potential for Drupal to adopt a similar approach to popular PHP frameworks l...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Creating a crowdsourced contraband reporting web app

This talk focuses on the development of mercadoilegal.com, a web application designed to combat ille...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Multidimensional testing workflow before merge to master

This talk addresses the challenges developers face when code integrates into the master branch, part...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: 5 Years in: Drupal Distributions Panel

This panel discussion features members from teams behind some of the most popular Drupal distributio...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: We need revisions and CRAP everywhere in core

This talk addresses the concept of content staging in Drupal, emphasizing the need for revisions and...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How, When and Why to Patch a Module

This talk covers the essential aspects of patching a module in Drupal, addressing when a patch is ne...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The New Design Workflow

This talk explores Phase2's innovative approach to design, which integrates multidisciplinary teams...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: ImageX & Building Dynamic Sites

This session from ImageX delves into the complexities of meeting the diverse needs of the higher-edu...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Secret Life of Organic Groups

This talk provides an in-depth look at the Organic Groups module in Drupal, showcasing its capabilit...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: I Survived Drupalgeddon: How Hackers Took Over My Site

This talk offers a detailed post-mortem analysis of the Drupalgeddon SQL injection bug, focusing on...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: An Overview of the Drupal 8 Plugin System

This talk focuses on the Drupal 8 plugin system, which offers developers guidelines and reusable cod...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Revamping the project applications process on Drupal.org

This talk covers recent changes to the project applications process as developed by the Technical Wo...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Rethink Drupal Support. Stop the Bleeding!

This talk focuses on making data-driven decisions to enhance conversion optimization in web design a...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: No

This talk explores the crucial concept of focus within the tech industry, emphasizing the need to pr...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: The Flavors of SVG

This talk explores the versatile applications of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) beyond just resoluti...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Test driven Drupal upgrades

This talk focuses on the importance of regularly updating Drupal core and modules for enhanced secur...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Double Header: RedHat.Com, Free Cloud Backups

In this case study presented by Phase2, the speaker discusses the architectural design and implement...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Ballin' on a Budget

This talk focuses on how to achieve effective design within budget constraints, drawing insights fro...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Angular.js with Drupal 8

This talk explores the dramatic evolution of the web alongside the rise of Internet of Things (IoT)...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Discovery Projects: Strategies for Defining the Opportunity

This talk focuses on the importance of conducting a discovery project to help define the goals and r...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Let's Talk About Documentation

This talk focuses on the critical role of documentation in the success of Drupal as both a product a...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Making your logs work for you: Drupal escalation and disaster recovery

This hands-on session demonstrates how to build a robust, enterprise-grade emergency response framew...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Writing a Custom Migration Plugin for Drupal 8

This talk covers the advancements in the Migrate module introduced with Drupal 8, which facilitates...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: What Panels can teach us about Web Components

This talk explores the challenges of Drupal's theme system, which often merges data management and f...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Features for Drupal 8

This talk explores the evolving role of the Features module in Drupal 8, highlighting its return to...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: How Drupal secured the defense sector

This talk covers the development of a large-scale intranet for a leading defense contractor, created...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Lightning Talks

This talk, titled "O.C.D. Deployment: Obsessive about Success," focuses on enhancing deployment proc...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal in 3D: Leveraging WebGL and X3DOM

This talk explores the capabilities of WebGL-based applications across various devices, focusing on...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: What's the fuss with all this JS?

This talk explores the integration of Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and AngularJS in Drupal 8, while a...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Speeding up Drupal 8 development using Drupal Console

This talk provides an in-depth look at the Drupal Console, a command line interface tool designed fo...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: All your search are belong to us: How I learned to love ElasticSearch

This talk introduces Elasticsearch as a superior alternative to Apache Solr, emphasizing its speed,...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 9 Components Library: The next theme system

This talk explores the evolution of content display in Drupal, emphasizing the need for a core compo...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Drupal 8, Don’t Be Late (Enterprise Orgs, We’re Looking at You)

This talk discusses the transition to Drupal 8 for enterprise organizations, addressing common appre...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Location, Location, Location - Mapping with Drupal

This talk explores essential mapping solutions for Drupal 7, including the Location module, Open Lay...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: To the Pattern Lab! Collaboration Using Modular Design Principles

This talk explores the use of styleguide and prototyping tools like Pattern Lab to enhance collabora...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Style Guide Driven Development: All hail the robot overlords!

This talk addresses the challenges of keeping up with the rapidly evolving landscape of front-end de...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: 4x High Performance for Drupal - Step by Step

This talk focuses on improving Drupal performance by addressing four key categories: server, client,...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Weather.com: A Novel Presentation Framework

This talk explores the launch of Weather.com, which became one of the highest traffic Drupal sites s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: (Re)Launch strategies: Drupal 8 and the modern web

This talk focuses on the strategic planning necessary for successfully implementing Drupal 8 in orde...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Advanced layouts with Flexbox

This talk explores the evolution of web layouts from table-based designs to more sophisticated CSS s...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Making Content Strategic before “Content Strategy” Happens

This talk focuses on the importance of establishing strategic messaging before developing a content...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Harmony - Forums & communities with Drupal

This talk introduces Harmony, an entity-based forum designed to improve the limitations of the Core...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Q&A with Dries

This talk focuses on the upcoming releases of Drupal 8, including insights into version 8.1.x and fu...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Capture the (D8) Flag

This talk explores the complexities of updating modules for Drupal 8, focusing on key tasks, challen...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Keynote by Matt Asay

In this talk, Matt Asay, VP of Mobile at Adobe, shares insights on the importance of open source con...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Closing Session

This talk highlights the transition from DrupalCon Los Angeles to DrupalCon 2015 in Barcelona, marki...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Issue Workspaces: A better way to collaborate in Drupal.org issue queues

This talk explores the concept of issue workspaces as a modern solution to enhance the issue queues...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Maximizing Site Speed with Mercy Corps | CASCADE

This session by Forum One focuses on maximizing site speed through performance enhancements for Drup...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: It Was a Blast

This video provides a comprehensive wrap-up of DrupalCon Los Angeles, highlighting key moments and i...

DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Styles of Storytelling: Cultivating Compelling Long-form Content

This talk, presented at DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015, explores the art of storytelling in the context...