Learn Laravel: Intro for Drupal Developers
Lee Walker
Code Journeymen
Laravel development is very complementary to Drupal development. This will be a quick intro to Laravel, learning the basics that will allow you to build apps from scratch.
PHP / Symfony
Drupal Camp Asheville 2024 - July 12th-14th
Professional Drupal Module Development Tools (Visual Studio Code + DDEV/Lando)
Michael Anello
DrupalEasy
Looking to set up your local development environment with tools necessary to build top-notch Drupal custom modules? In this half-day workshop, Mike Anello, lead instructor of DrupalEasy's 90-hour Professional Module Development course, will help you set up Visual Studio Code alongside your existing DDEV or Lando installation with all the plugins, extensions, and code quality tools to put you in a position to succeed. Tools covered will include Drupal Coder (phpcs, phpcbf), PhpStan, PhpUnit, and Xdebug.
Overcoming Backdrop barriers: module ports and themes
Justin Keiser
Academy of Model Aeronautics
The upgrade process from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS is a refactoring rather than a rewrite but can still have challenges. It can, however be a cost-effective solution for an organization happy with their existing website and platform.
Event Management with Drupal and Commerce
Rich Gerdes
Unleashed Technologies
The event registration module is designed to handle not only individual attendees, but also speakers, sponsors, and supporting persons and organizations. Through the extensibility of Drupal Commerce and entities, these modules can provide a solution for almost any event situation.
Creating a Custom Packagist
Allan Chappell
Four Kitchens
The goal of this article is to give you some ideas on how to host a solid packagist for a team, organization, or client while describing how the Four Kitchens team came up with a fun and creative solution to provide this functionality using the tools our client had on hand
Everything You Wanted to Know about CKEditor 5 and Drupal, But Were Afraid to Ask
Kevin Pittman
Georgia Institute of Technology
This session will provide an overview of the changes on both the CKEditor side and the Drupal side, and a look at what you'll need to do to get your custom modules updated to work with CKEditor 5.
Creating a Custom Rasa Conversational AI Chatbot for Drupal Websites
Rick Torzynski
Esteemed
You will learn how to create a custom conversational AI chatbot knowledge base using Rasa, an open source chatbot framework and how to integrate this chatbot into a Drupal website using the Component module and JavaScript.
Intermediate OOP in Drupal: Patterns, Services, Events and Dependency Injection
Jonathan Daggerhart
Daggerhart Lab
This training will best serve developers who have some understanding of OOP, and want to learn more about the theory behind best practices seen in Drupal 8+ and Symfony. The approach of this training is a series of discussions paired with practical examples of how the topics apply to Drupal 8 module development. If things get really wild, we'll live-code some modules.
Elevating your skills: Clear intro of tools & tech to learn next!
Ashraf Abed
Debug Academy
As a site builder or content editor looking for continued career growth, what should you learn next? In this talk, we'll explain tools and technologies simply and how learning them aligns with common career paths.
Practical CS: Memory and Garbage Collection in PHP
Jim Vomero
Four Kitchens
It’s easy to forget that our programs actually run on metal; where ones and zeros are stored as charges in physical components. Modern programming languages give us a false feeling of separation from these circuit boards. Interpreted languages like PHP offer such flexibility, we often don’t consider the low-level issues, such as how our code affects memory allocation.
