50 min

Have you played around with your first Drupal site, been to an "Introduction to Drupal" training, or scored your first Drupal job and not sure what to do next?

Tobie Langel is a world-leading expert and international speaker on open source and standardization. He advises some of the biggest names in tech (Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel, Cisco), promising startups (GitLab, Airtable, Coil), industry organizations (OpenJS Foundation, OASIS, W3C) and nonprofits (Organization for Ethical Source, Ushahidi, Omidyar Network), either pro bono or through his consultancy, UnlockOpen.

Open Source technologies build the foundation of the free and open internet, but many are developed by only a single maintainer or a very small community.

Despite the critical role these tools play in the internet ecosystem, they are perpetually under-funded and under-supported.

The similarity to other “system relevant” professions is striking: The more we need them to keep the system running, the less we are willing to appreciate and sufficiently fund them.

An introduction to utility class and component-based styling, and how to soar with Tailwind CSS.

Things we'll cover:

Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. It converts Markdown files, Twig templates and standard HTML into a static HTML site that can be easily deployed.

This talk will cover a little of the background to Sculpin and what it is, and then will move into some demonstrations of how to build a Sculpin site and what it can do!

Testing is important.

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.

Get your cards out, let's play buzzword bingo!

Introduction to Drush

Are you tired of navigating through Drupal's admin interface to get things done? Want to speed up development or just look incredibly cool while typing away at the terminal? Time to stop clicking and start typing: learn how to leverage Drush to build and maintain your Drupal sites.

In this session, we'll cover the basics of Drush:

Modern Drupal is amazing and awesome, your site can continue to grow and evolve indefinitely. But it also poses challenges. Technical debt is impossible to avoid when working on software and the longer it lives and the bigger it grows, the larger that challenge becomes. At Dropsolid we have several cases with these challenges:

Title: "AI-Powered development using Copilot & ChatGPT"