Drupal Superstars vs Players

So you have just won a big contract and don't have the resource or skill inhouse? What are your next steps to deliver and succeed?
This session will run into what you need to do in order to succeed, what skills you need for the project, planning, development, testing and deployment. When working on a big Drupal project you need the right people in order to succeed, have they been working on Drupal before or are they claiming to have, what proof do they have to show this?
This is a very popular question that recruiters and agencies constantly ask, and will help you find out the superstars from the players and not waste any time you don't need to waste in finding them.

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1. Drupal Superstars vs Players Alex Burrows | #aburrows alex@onlineperspectives.co.uk
2. Who am I? • Drupal developer, consultant and themer • Working with Drupal since 2009 • Joint Director and Technical Director or CTO of Online Perspectives Ltd. • Enjoy a nice beer or two • Active in Drupal community • Drupalcamp London Organisor
3. Drupal is PHP though..
4. So is Wordpress..
5. and Joomla..
6. So why can’t I treat it like PHP? “Hacking core & contrib”
7. So what is a player?
9. How a Player “works” Drupal • PHP in blocks, nodes, views, anywhere PHP shouldn’t go • Hardcoding tpl files with text that CANNOT be edited via Drupal • Never heard of panels or display suite • views_embed_view() in node tpl files • adding jQuery library to page.tpl.php or another tpl • SQL queries in tpl files, blocks, nodes, views
10. Player code example http://www.flickr.com/photos/groomsy/8468129362/sizes/o/in/photolist-dUinQo-c3p4s7-djM9NL-djLC2i-djLB7R-djLxWp-djLv8v-djLMSj-djMdUK-djLVsd-djMawB-djLwMb-djM1EY-djM95B-fmquXr-8beBiC-fXEn6T-7YPQ7R- axi1rC-9LAPz1-eqty7F-8gFrwc-87wFy7-8HwZUG-buRE2t-cuGr85-epb4nh-9pG2TP-f4Xyix-apaNm3-7P9Zcw-7P5YJD-7P5Zpc-7P5YYc-7P5Zae-7P5ZHg-97a5KP-7yucKk-8hJjB2-djLPRJ-djLZto-djLwbX-djLEw4-djLXso-djLQCh- djLubf-djLT2P-djMaUR-djLyS8-djLWaH-djLzaQ/
11. SQL in template.php
12. So what is a superstar? http://prinsesamusang.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cats_animals_glasses_sunglasses_hippie_schrodingers_cat_monochrome_schrodinger_steam_punk- wide.jpg
13. What do you need from your superstars?
14. Superstar Themer template files javascript (jQuery) sass/less/css template.php
15. Superstar Developer hooks .info .inc .module preprocess db_query() drupal_add_js drupal_add_css dbtng
16. Superstar Architect which modules will do what i want making clients dreams become reality how to integrate contrib with custom
17. Superstar Site Builder views panels organic groups rules display suite features.. context
18. Where to find a Drupal Superstar? This room Word of mouth Drupal irc Pub / Social events Issue queues Twitter
19. http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzA0L2I0L29ubGluZW9yaWdpLmRibC5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw/d91f7abd/bc9/online- original-video-amazon-studios-searching-for-hit-series-c02e81af59.jpg Go get them!
20. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w-8JKaTohe4/S8Ru4AwubWI/AAAAAAAAWmw/FVKrmmRjoGo/s1600/and_now_its_time_for_something_completely_different.jpg
21. Rescue Projects http://www.flickr.com/photos/46289172@N04/4417091318/sizes/o/in/photolist-7JjKmS-bysnev-7JqKuc-83FaNS-91jtZb-9V43sM-9EJuEi-d6QTPq-bYApJQ-e6UiKE aeLxs4-duTWj7-atFxM5-czv2GE-7zo7oT-8SLW9D-91y1U9-8xCu4p-e4WG86-gT8rJa-gUhRvK-dKh9qb-a8VJuw-ctY1UE-7DgLAR-gGUWES-9dK4C1-7M6czz- fpKe9B-7Mabxw-7Ma8h5-7Ma8jE-7TNKRP-dbiCXH-asUn7E-7M6cPa-7M6cQB-7M69ui-7M6c5k-7M6cdt-aAu2j8-8Mjdc6/
22. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wSEFqQmgsm4/T_8Laa4xy7I/AAAAAAAAAg8/-LUulvtvOkM/s1600/Choice.jpg
23. Red choice Starting from scratch WTF is going on here?
24. Blue choice Continue on…. ££££££££££££££££’s