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.

Building Accessible AI: Embedding Inclusion Across the Software Development Lifecycle

Session Category User Experience & Accessibility Room Mt. Mitchell (226) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Carie Fisher
AI doesn’t fix broken processes—it accelerates them. As teams increasingly rely on AI to design, build, and ship software, accessibility must be integrated throughout the development lifecycle. This session explores practical ways to embed accessibility into planning, design, coding, testing, and review processes, helping teams reduce accessibility debt and ensure AI-driven innovation scales inclusion rather than exclusion.

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.