Dose of Drupal: What’s New in Drupal 8
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If you're considering a platform for your next web development project, startup, or enterprise-scale company, this 2-hour meetup is a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal 8 has to offer and engage with other Drupal experts in Jordan.
During this meetup you will:
• Get to know how to build enterprise-level websites in no time.
• Know the secrets of building top-notch solutions, from the experts.
• Ask the experts, get help in your projects/work.
This event is for: Web Developers (front end and backend), Webmasters.
Where? The Tank, Umniah, King Hussein Business Park
What to Bring? You can bring your laptop to follow along.
Cost? FREE.
Pre-requisites? Basic web-development knowledge, or expert. It works for both.
Do I need to sign up? Yes, please register so we know you're coming on this event
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Event Agenda:
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Introduction and Welcome
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Sessions:
Session 1: 45 mins
PHP developers, behold for the power of Drupal 8 - By: Rajab Natshah, Senior Software Engineer
Are you a PHP developer, and want to use Drupal 8 for your project? Or are you a Drupal 7 developer and looking to start your first Drupal 8 project?
Drupal 8.2.2 is out with lots of things to learn before we start.
We will have a look at how we can use Drupal 8 to speed up development with all tools and techniques such as, composer, vendors, auto loading, and more.
• Drupal 8 in action
• How Drupal 8 does it
• Nodes/Entities: The secret to Drupal 8's flexibility
• Collaborative at the core of Drupal 8
• Get started quickly with Drupal 8, then customize extensively
• The Drupal 8 flow
• Get up close and personal with Drupal 8 projects.
Session 2: 30 mins
Drupal 8 Performance Enhancements - By: Yousef Bajawi, Lead Developer
Learn about the new performance enhancements in Drupal 8 that turns Drupal into a more reliable CMS for high-traffic and resource-demanding websites.
To the extent of making Drupal behave as a client-side web application (using Facebook's BigPipe technique), you will be introduced to a number of features that would help you better performing websites with Drupal 8.
We will talk about:
• Cache tags
• A "Facebook BigPipe" render pipeline technique
• Dynamic content substitution
• "Better" CSS & JS preprocessing
- Open discussion and coffee
This is a free event sponsored by Vardot http://www.vardot.com
Questions? Contact Hani Dabit at h.dabit@vardot.com or call 0792866708