11/11/2023 0 Comments Drupal con baltimoreUnfortunately the firemarshall decided it was a safety violation and those without seats, like me, were asked to leave. This was proving to be a very useful and well structured talk as did all the other people standing along the walls and sitting in the isles of the session room. The Right Tool for the Job: Content Layout in Drupal 8 It was also an honest view of showing how they leveraged Drupal as a content management system doing what it does best while off-loading storage, caching, and integration of different content at the client using appropriate technologies and well worth the time. They walked through each layer of the technology stack from the back-end design choices, to content editor interactions with the site, to front end rendering. Use cases can sometimes be very generic and shallow but jmullikin and tobby did a great job at explaining the architectural and technology of a large scale Drupal site. The consistent message was reassuring that you could be active in the community on a day to day basis in the trenches or farther away looking at the big picture and still be facing the same direction. It's what you would expect from a keynote speech and while it contained a lot of information I found a lot familiar from following the community podcasts: Talking Drupal, DrupalEasy, Lullabot Podcast, and Mediacurrent Dropcast. It opened with a speaker from the Drupal Association in a very professional but relaxed tone emphasizing the project organization and community which lead into Dries' speech covering the state of the project and goals. I shows the lighter side of the community and is a jolt to start the conference. It was well put together and 'seriously' goofy. The pre-note was a zany 45 minutes of popular culture songs mixed with as many Drupal community references as possible with some comical costumes. If you come to the convention early to register and you stumble into the prenote at 8:00 AM because it's the first event of the day you might be surprised. Experiences and thoughts from my first Drupalcon.
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