Conference Presentations

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Chris Skene to present, and Kim Pepper to mentor at the Drupal 8 code sprints in Portland, Oregon.

Hear how and why PreviousNext's client, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), deployed Drupal with a centralised, decoupled Content Repository to power the digital network into the future

Drupal gives us a range of powerful tools for structuring and presenting content, but relying on these can produce bland, list-driven websites. How do you structure a site to get the benefits of Drupal's content-first tools, while still producing a first-class user experience?

3 PreviousNext developers, Jack Taranto, Christian Biggins & Nick Schuch, deliver a detailed technical insight into the huge development effort that went into NovaFM's new website.

Continuous integration (CI) is a practice in software development that builds, tests and deploys changes automatically, usually multiple times a day, on each change to a code base. Find out how this practice can apply specifically to Drupal projects and see a working continuous integration setup in action and in a Drupal context.

Requirements often come with technical implications, without regard for the platform that will be used - or even for the system's users and what they might want. Meeting strictly written requirements can lead to an over-engineered and over-priced solution.

Owen introduces and runs the Q&A with Dries Buytaert for his keynote address at DrupalCon Sydney

Owen runs the Q&A with Senator Kate Lundy for her keynote address at DrupalCon Sydney

As Gold sponsors and local organising team members, PreviousNext is excited about this global Drupal event coming to Australia.

The media module is described as 'a file browser for the web' and promises a much more unified and usable experience when dealing with files on your site. But it isn't without its problems. 

Aegir is a hosting system for managing rapid, automated provisioning and ongoing maintenance (upgrades, cloning, destroying) of Drupal sites. Aegir itself is made of Drupal - it consists of a Drupal frontend 'control panel' and a ‘backend’, which makes extensive use of Drush.