Need help planning your visit to DrupalSouth Wellington next week? Here’s the complete rundown of sessions our PreviousNext colleagues will be presenting! Will we see you there?
With not long to go, we hope you’re looking forward to DrupalSouth 2023 as much as we are!
Several of our PreviousNext colleagues will be presenting over the two days in Wellington, so here’s a summary of what you can expect to hear.
Creating the optimal editorial experience with Layout Builder
Speaker: Daniel Veza
Time: Wednesday 17th May 12:00-12:30
Room: Main Theatre
Track: Drupal Development
Layout Builder can be intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be! Discover modules that enhance and control the Layour Builder experience, keeping the front end consistent.
See Daniel’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Getting the most from your CI/CD experience
Speaker: Karl Hepworth
Time: Wednesday 17th May 12:00-12:30
Room: Track 1
Track: Web Tools & Technologies
How do you get the most from your CI/CD experience?
Karl will dive into a maturity model that evaluates how far you are into the DevOps experience and look at the opportunities to be had and where your journey will take you.
See Karl’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Drupal Hosting Security Panel
Speaker: Kim Pepper; plus panellists Mike Richardson, Nick Schuch, Nick Santamaria, Scott Leggett
Time: Wednesday 17th May 13:30-14:00
Room: Main Theatre
Track: Web Tools & Technologies
Get your tough questions ready!
The Drupal Hosting Security Panel brings together some of Drupal’s hosting experts, including PNXers Kim Pepper and Nick Schuch.
See the hosting security panel in the DrupalSouth schedule
How much does a polar bear weigh?
Speaker: Fonda Duffy
Time: Wednesday 17th May 13:30-13:45
Room: Track 2
Track: Showcases & Project Management
If you don’t know how that joke ends, Fonda may be able to help in her talk about the role of icebreakers in building and maintaining team connections.
See Fonda’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Vue JS for React JS developers and vice versa
Speaker: Lee Rowlands
Time: Wednesday 17th May 14:15-14:45
Room: Track 1
Track: Web Tools & Technologies
In React, you call useState to store state, in Vue, you use a ref.
In React, you use a ref to keep track of something between renders, in Vue, you also use a ref for that.
Confused? Come along to hear Lee compare React and Vue, and learn they're not that different.
See Lee’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Building an API with GraphQL 4
Speaker: Adam Bramley
Time: Wednesday 17th May 15:00-15:30
Room: Track 1
Track: Drupal Development
The GraphQL Drupal module’s out-of-the-box toolkit for writing GraphQL APIs is powerful, but it can also be hard to get your head around the concepts.
In his session, Adam will cover how to get started and how all those puzzle pieces fit together.
See Adam’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
The road to zero friction testing - getting the most out of Drupal Testing Traits
Speaker: Michael Strelan
Time: Thursday 18th May 10:00-10:30
Room: Main Theatre
Track: Drupal Development
Join Michael for a journey along the road to zero friction testing, aka getting the most out of Drupal Testing Traits.
In his session, he'll show you real-world approaches from large client projects that make writing new tests a breeze. With some basic foundations in place, adding new tests can become smooth like butter.
See Michael’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Next-level Search API
Speaker: Saul Willers
Time: Thursday 18th May 13:00-13:30
Room: Main Theatre
Track: Drupal Development
How can you achieve next-level Search API?
In his session, Saul will explore some of the lesser-known or "enterprise" features that can extend Search API and help solve the problems you face.
See Saul’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
A Case Study On Building A Cloud Native Platform
Speaker: Nick Schuch
Time: Thursday 18th May 13:00-13:30
Room: Track 1
Track: Web Tools & Technologies
Nick will present a case study for building a cloud-native platform.
Join him for a walk-through of how the Skpr hosting platform came to be and the lessons we learned along the way.
See Nick’s session in the DrupalSouth schedule
Code Contribution Sprint
Time: Friday 19th May 09:00 - 15:00
Location: 93 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
Find out how to get involved in the Code Sprint
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