PNX selected to speak at DrupalCon Sydney 2013
Congratulations to the PreviousNext team members who had their DrupalCon Sydney 2013 sessions selected! With the complete list of sessions now officially announced, it's shaping up to be the biggest Drupal event to hit our shores.
This year the PreviousNext team submitted a number of session proposals across Coding & Development, Sitebuilding, Frontend, Content Authoring, Business & Strategy, Community and Case Studies with three sessions selected for February's conference.
Make sure you don't miss:
NovaFM Case Study
Three PreviousNext developers, Jack Taranto, Christian Biggins & Nick Schuch, will deliver a detailed insight into the huge development effort that went into NovaFM's new website. We will be providing a high level overview of the project, focusing on key elements such as its responsive implementation of advertising & media, the enormous data migration task of some 100,000 nodes, extensive integration with third party websites & solr search. The website itself has been an amazing success, receiving 4 million page views per month, and the time on site having doubled since our relaunch. Drupal has helped empower Nova's content creators into having unrivaled control of what they are able to produce.
Show me the tests! Writing Automated Tests for Drupal
- Want to keep ahead of bugs and regressions in your code?
- Want to stop other members on the team accidentally breaking your code?
- Want to make deployments nice and smooth?
- Perhaps you want to ramp up your core commits but are overwhelmed by testing?
In this session Lee Rowlands will cover technologies and approaches for automated testing with Drupal and show you practices you can introduce into your workflow now to identify bugs before they derail your project.
Re-think your requirements
Requirements often come with technical implications, without regard for the platform that will be used. Meeting strictly written requirements can lead to an over-engineered and over-priced solution. Don't let requirements undermine Drupal's strengths by being too prescriptive about the approach. You can re-frame the requirements to leverage what Drupal does well, instead of trying to work around its weaknesses to build a custom, complex product. Beyond improving the technical outcome, writing Drupal-y requirements can help avoid misunderstandings. The intent of a requirement is to establish business value - not to tell you how to build something. In this session Pamela Barone will look at how to strip back those requirements, often written by a committee and far-removed from actual use cases, to establish the goal. Then you can build it - the Drupal way!
The PreviousNext team is heavily invested in growing the Drupal community downunder and nurturing the awareness of Drupal in the local region. As Gold sponsors and local organising team members of DrupalCon Sydney 2013, we’re gearing up for what’s going to be the global Drupal event of 2013 and wish all the selected speakers and those attending a successful conference.
Don't miss out! If you haven’t yet purchased your tickets, register here.