beyond drupal

Stamping Your Open Source Passport

Visiting a foreign open source community is kind of like traveling to a foreign country! It may be difficult if you don’t speak the language or share the same culture, but you’re guaranteed to return home with a new perspective and interesting experiences. It’s easy to get comfortable and stay in your own community bubble. Breaking outside of that allows you to see how others solve problems and tackle new opportunities. And, it turns out that other open source communities are generally welcoming and interested in your perspective as well!

Advancing Developer Communities with Kubernetes and Drupal

Kubernetes is a powerful tool that drastically changes the deployment and hosting options for our web projects. Kubernetes is also the most active open source project on GitHub and introduces an entirely new way of thinking about systems and hosting. In this session, I will share some of the challenges faced by organizations trying to move from traditional systems development as they approach a cloud-native mindset. I will outline why the movement to Kubernetes is essential and why you might want to participate.

QA At Scale: Improving DevOps pipelines for Pega

This summer, Last Call Media completed an engagement with Pega Systems (Pega.com) to overhaul the Pega team's development workflow and quality assurance process.   In the process, we implemented: On demand QA environments for every PR, implemented with Kubenetes and AWS Cloud Automated Visual Regression tests using BackstopJS Automated testing using PHPUnit  

Euthanizing Drupal: Archiving, Migrations, Transformations

The "end of the line" is getting closer for Drupal 7 sites, particularly those created by individual researchers with digital scholarly projects. Drupal 8(+) development of key modules for these sites has stalled-- or never begun. What should these researchers do with these sites, some already in various states of disrepair after years of inconsistent maintenance? This talk reflects on work done at Stanford University, and within the broad digital humanities community, to steer researchers towards an honest reckoning about their Drupal sites.

QA + U = Quality

Unit tests, QA plans, behat, visual regression testing. Do any of these sound familiar to you? If you have experience with Quality Assurance, or QA, you might already recognize them. But even if they’re not, or you are completely unfamiliar with QA, you might have encountered them elsewhere and wondered what they mean. Or perhaps you’re hearing them now for the first time?

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? Using Machine Learning to Meet Accessibility Requirements

Tired of having to caption all the images on your website? Manually inputting alt tags for images gets tedious, and missing some decreases your site's search weight. Look no further than machine learning. A powerful tool in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning can be leveraged to solve this tedious task.

Acronym Anxiety! What do all those letters mean!?

Acronyms are everywhere, and if you work in or with a digital agency, you’re likely bombarded by them day in and day out. Emails sent from strategists asking about your KPIs for the year, letters appended to your project manager’s name, requests from marketing for your CRM details ... the acronym soup goes on and on. The goal of this session is to equip attendees with knowledge of basic terms used in the industry and the correct ways to use them!

Personal Internet Security Basics

No matter if you're a developer, designer, manager or a business owner, you're a person. And these days, being a person on the Internet can be a minefield. Phishing attacks are trying to steal your information and some of your passwords have been published on the internet. But you have to work on the Internet--living off the grid is not an option.

Blazing fast sites using Blaze Hybrid CMS

Traditional content management systems (CMS) are based on architecture and technology that was introduced 20 years ago. JAMStack is here to stay and also is the new content management system. What if you can use your repository to store not only code but also all of your content, for dynamic digital experience applications? Now is possible using a GUI on top of your preferred SSG.

Backdrop is Drupal 7. You know where it came from. Come see where it's headed.

Backdrop CMS is now nearly 5 years old. Since its first release on Jan 15th, 2015, what has changed? Is Backdrop substantially easier to use than the Drupal it was forked from? Is it more affordable to support? Are the APIs you know and love, still stable and functioning as they were? Is the community growing and healthy?