Intermediate

Display Builder: Drupal's Unified Visual Builder

Session Category Site Building User Interface & Design Site-Building Theming, Design, & Usability Room Beaucatcher Mountain (225) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Dan Hansen
Come learn about Display Builder, a powerful tool designed to streamline and modernize the site building experience across a whole host of legacy Drupal layout systems.

AI + Accessibility: Benefits, Limitations, and Practical Workflows

Session Category User Experience & Accessibility Room Mt. Mitchell (226) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Carie Fisher
This session explores how AI can support digital accessibility and where it falls short. Learn to evaluate AI-generated fixes, compare tools, and understand key risks like overreliance and overlays. Emphasizing human review, participants will develop practical strategies and a 90-day action plan to responsibly integrate AI into accessibility work.

Ctrl+F5 Won't Save You: Strategies for Static Asset Caching

Session Category Back End Development & Performance Room Mt. Mitchell (226) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Chris Burge
By default, Drupal instructs external caches (Varnish, CDN, browser, etc) to cache static assets, such as CSS, PDF, and JPG, for 1 year. Without a caching strategy for static assets, you're likely to experience some headaches with these files. In this session, we'll cover the Purge, Purge File, and Media Entity File Replace contrib modules, along with several others. We'll also dive into the Cache-Control header and how it can be leveraged to manage external caches.

Local like a yokel - how to pick & fiddle your sandbox to new heights

Session Category Emerging Technology Room Mt. Mitchell (226) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Dan Gurin
Master your development sandbox! "Local like a yokel" shows you how to push your environment to its limits for $0. We’ll dive into Cloudflare SSH tunnels to share your work with the world and explore hosting OSS tools like Twenty CRM and ListMonk on your own hardware. Crucially, we’ll tackle the new frontier: sandbox AI. Learn to set up Ollama and integrate it with Dalia to revolutionize your Drupal development. This session is for developers who want to transform their workstation from a simple server into a powerhouse of automation and intelligence.