Code & Development

Drupal core is a secure product, but how secure are contrib modules? And custom ones? This session is about proper use of the drupal api's and some best practices for secure drupal development.   Slides are now online. Another good security whitepaper:

A lot has changed in Drupal 8 for developers. To make you familiar with some of the biggest changes, a small module will be built during this session. Some of the topics that will be covered:

This session gives you an introduction to the Symfony Standard Edition. Not only does this help you understand parts of components used in Drupal 8, but there are also ways to integrate the Symfony full stack framework into Drupal. The talk will be limited to the Symfony Standard Edition.

Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box: it is now smart enough to no longer load unnecessary JavaScript.

Drupal 8 will ship with Backbone.js, so a lot of Drupal developers will be exposed to it. Backbone offers a framework to structure and organize javascript code. It simplifies maintainability but at the same time adds a layer of complexity by adding new abstractions and rules about organising JavaScript code. Backbone.js is easy to work with as long as we have an understanding of these rules and concepts. To prevent it being "a pain in the #!$", let's get to know Backbone!

You can download the slides from speakerdeck.com and view the recording on youtube.com  

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At Dropsolid we have a lot of experience managing offshore development teams. We would like to share the knowledge we gained about this topic.

After an introduction to Dependency Injection as a pattern and Symfony's Dependency Injection Container, we will look into how we can use the container to configure, use and extend services and how to write and register our own services.

Drupal 8 has a new configuration management system. This session will cover how to use from an coding perspective and will be heavy on code samples! What will be covered: