Dinner with Drupal

On Tuesday, February 28, we'll meet for another Dinner with Drupal. Between 17:30 and 19:30 a number of presentations will be given, after which we will have dinner and drinks in town. There are open spots for those who will want to demonstrate interesting new technologies or services, or who will want to pitch ideas. Please contact us, so we can put you in the schedule.

We'll meet at Druid's office in downtown Amsterdam, which can easily be reached by bike, car, bus, or train. Refreshments and snacks will be available.

We welcome everybody who uses Drupal, or everybody who wants to start using it. You don't have to be a guru to attend. There will be developers, designers, businesspeople, novices and hardcore users. All content will be in English, but our attendees speak many other languages as well.

Speaker(s)

Daniel Beeke: Drupal Javascript Behaviors

Drupal is a complex system because it is highly modulair. If you use javascript in Drupal you should plug it in the right way or be prepared for monsters! With using javascript in Drupal the right way, you can modify existing Drupal javascript output, functions, and behavioir. Drupal has a very advanced javascript API. With this you can easiliy create ajax forms, ajax in general and a lot more. So in this talk we will talk about: Drupal Javascript Behaviors, AJAX form API, es6 and a some neat tricks.

Paul Krischer: Rookie Guide to Pole Position at the Race for Performance

Everybody likes speed. We've all heard about studies showing website visitors moving on if a page take over 1 second to load. We've heard about Google sending your site to the next results page if your competitors load faster. We've all been irritated when having to wait on any random computational process taking longer than we would like. Still... I witnessed many times how site performance is an afterthought. Too often slow page load times is something the end client complains about days or even hours before launch. Or worse: the first visitors mock the sites slowness on social media right after it's launched.
In this session I will go over some of the strategies to prevent all this pain. The main recommendation is obvious: start caring about performance earlier in your build process. I'll go over some of the tools you can use for continuous monitoring of page load times from the start of your project. Some of the configuration tuning you can do to make any Drupal site perform better. Some of the additional techniques you can add to take it to the next level. And some to keep things running smooth after launch and through you next releases.
This is a session for Site Builders at a Beginner level but even more advanced Drupalists may learn a thing or two. Don't expect me to show you how interact with Drupal 8s advanced caching API, share the ultimate Varnish 5.1 VCL for Drupal 8.4 or disclose that an .htaccess oneliner that discovers your clients perception a cache header. These are topics for a Coding and Development track, both things I hardly ever do.

Want to speak at the April edition?

Contact us if you want to present yourself at the next edition in February, or demo a cool new technology. Dinner with Drupal is the perfect place to try out a new presentation!