April Meetup
Details
Come along to another evening of Drupal Learning, an evening for all of you who sometimes feel that there are things you don't know about Drupal!
6:30pm - 7:00pm:
Gathering and mingling; collecting ideas for topic tables later in the evening; Pizza and drink!
7:00pm - 8:00pm:
For Drupal Newbies:
Robert Castelo - Introduction to Drupal - Hello, Drupal!
http://drupal.org/user/3555
For those of you who know the Drupal Basics already:
Tom Phethean - Please Hold, Your Call is in a Queue
http://drupal.org/user/881620
It's not just the Brits that love queues, Drupal loves them too.
Maybe your website is making requests to another internal or third party system. Maybe a third party is sending messages to you. Either way, as you begin to grow your services are increasingly likely to run into problems completing these requests in a predictable amount of time and with guaranteed success.
Queueing is one solution to this, balancing load, ensuring jobs are processed successfully - but the uses don't end there.
This talk will provide an overview of queueing patterns, discuss some scenarios where you may want to implement queues, and look at how Drupal implements queueing - as well as some of the gotchas in implementing queue processing at scale.
Sally Young and Ifung Lu - Sass, Compass and Zenhttp://drupal.org/user/161058 http://drupal.org/user/1015430
Learn about the latest hotness in front end development. We'll give you an overview of SASS and Compass as well as showing all the cool things about the Zen5 Drupal theme - like HTML5, SAS support, Smacss support, Zen Grids; everything and the kitchen sink...
8:00pm - close
Topic Tables (aka BarCamp, unconference)To make the most of these, bring along your laptop to join in and get playing!
- all the topic tables from your suggestions on the night, of course!
We look forward to seeing you!
Sally, Meike, Robert and Steve
And some other upcoming Drupal Events in London you might want to go to:
Beer and Chat 29th April
https://www.meetup.com/London-Drupal-Pub-Meet/events/113976742/
Sprint Weekend 27th - 28th April
http://drupalsprintapril2013.eventbrite.co.uk/