umBristol - Dancing for Drupal

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1. umBristol
   CMS Dance-Off - August 2015
   

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2. opdavies
   ● Oliver Davies
   ● Senior Developer at Microserve
   ● Drupal core contributor and mentor
   ● Bristol DUG organiser
   ● DrupalCamp Bristol committee
   member
   

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3. What is Drupal?
   ● FOSS
   ● Content management framework
   ● https://www.drupal.org
   ● Started in 1999 as a message board
   ● PHP
   ● “Not invented here”, but changing
   ● GPL2 license
   ● 6 and 7 are our current stable
   releases
   ● 8 is in development
   

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4. Who uses Drupal?
   ● ~3% of the web is powered by Drupal
   ● Over 1,000,000 active sites (that we
   know about)
   ● Particularly popular in higher
   education and government
   ● whitehouse.gov
   ● beta.london.gov.uk
   

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5. Source Control / Versioning /
   Deployment (core)
   ● Git (repos hosted on drupal.org)
   ● 2 supported major versions
   ● No backwards compatibility between
   major versions
   ● Supported update / migration path
   ● SemVer coming in Drupal 8
   

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6. Source Control / Versioning /
   Deployment (project)
   ● Use what VCS, versioning system and
   deployment tools that you want.
   ● One big repo with core, contrib
   projects, custom code
   ● Drush Make or Composer for
   declaring versions and dependencies
   

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7. Configuration
   ● Currently, mostly database with
   exportable features
   ● Override or define variables in
   settings.php using $conf[varName].
   ● Drupal 8 introduces full or partial
   configuration synchronisation in core -
   import/export via the UI, or version
   control
   

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8. Configuration Management
   Demo
   

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9. Multiple Editors/Developers
   ● Online via forms.
   ● Multiple user accounts with different
   roles and permissions.
   ● Content Lock module provides anti-
   concurrent editing
   ● Revisions, published and unpublished
   by default.
   ● Workbench Moderation provides
   moderation states and review
   workflow.
   

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10. Multiple Editors/Developers
    I suggest:
    ● Export everything into code, and
    disable UI modules.
    ● Disable installing and updating
    modules through the admin UI.
    ● Use an appropriate version control
    workflow.
    

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11. Upgrades
    ● Update path between minor releases,
    and major releases prior to Drupal 8.
    ● Migration into Drupal 8 from earlier
    versions or different (non-Drupal) data
    sources.
    

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12. 3 Best Things
    1. Free and open source
    2. Community
    3. It gives users the chance to build
    something without writing a line of
    code (more-so in Drupal 8)
    

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13. 3 Worst Things
    1. Slow release cycle (fixed in Drupal 8).
    2. Legacy code architecture and
    “Drupalisms” (fixed in Drupal 8).
    3. Out-dated Git workflow (fixed soon).
    

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14. Other Cool Stuff
    1. Integrated eCommerce
    2. Integrates with third-party applications
    and services such as CRMs
    3. Migrate framework - migrating data
    into Drupal
    4. REST in D8 core - exposing data from
    within Drupal
    5. “Headless/Decoupled” Drupal - JS
    front-end/Drupal back-end
    

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15. The Future of Drupal
    Drupal 8!
    ● More useful things in core
    ● Modern PHP/front-end architecture
    and techniques
    ● Transferrable skills across frameworks
    for Developers, and lower barrier to
    entry for new contributors
    

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16. Want More?
    Come along to our meetup.
    3rd Wednesday monthly.
    http://drupalbristol.org.uk
    Contact me.
    http://www.oliverdavies.uk
    https://microserve.io
    

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17. Questions?
    

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