DrupalCamp New Jersey 2022

Being able to accurately estimate the time required to develop a given product or feature is a crucial skill for every Drupal developer. As an industry, we are constantly plagued with software overruns, and whether you are on the buying or selling side of a web development project, a mature estimation process can make the difference between project success and failure.

We will discuss the mysterious art of software estimation, drawing both from classic literature (McConnel's Software Estimation, Brooks' Mythical Man Month) and from our experience of over a decade in Drupal development at Evolving Web. We will also show our basic Drupal estimation spreadsheet model, which takes as inputs various factors such as the number of content types, number of expected pages, content migration, and other Drupal specific parameters.

Presenter(s)
Alex Dergachev
Rukmini Halliwell

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/drupal-project-estimation-fun-and-profit

From booking speakers to managing both virtual and physical locations to coordinating food and logistics, event planning is a challenge. But with the right Content Types and Layout Builder styles, showcasing all those details before and after the actual event should be the easy part.

Learn how WDS enhanced our existing our event content type to better meet the needs of our campus event planners.

Presenter(s)
Jessica Monaco
Brian Osborne

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/planning-conference-hard-enough-building-promotional-site-your-event-doesnt-have-be

In February 2022, Bryn Mawr College migrated its website of more than 10,000 nodes and more than 350 users from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. In Drupal 7, Bryn Mawr relied on the Organic Groups ecosystem to manage content access and menus. In Drupal 9, we switched to the Group module. In this session, we describe how we configure Group. We also describe the views, VBOs, form alters, event subscribers, and other customizations we implement to overcome some of Group's pain points to make it work for us.

Presenter
Michael Harris

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/how-bryn-mawr-uses-group-access-management

As part of the efforts to get Drupal “off the island”, the Community started adopting Composer. Now, with the Composer Support in Core Initiative, the adoption has become wider.

Although it's a great tool, starting with Composer can be intimidating and even problematic if you lack some basic knowledge. During this session, we will discuss the basics and not so basics of composer, including:

Creating a composer project
Adding dependencies to your project
Using composer repositories
Composer scripts
Composer.json vs composer.lock
Dealing with merge conflicts when using composer
Dealing with dependencies resolution problems
Working with some popular composer plugins:
cweagans/composer-patches
composer/installers
oomphinc/composer-installers-extender
drupal/core-composer-scaffold
Additional composer configuration items
You will leave this session with the confidence to use and solve issues when working with Composer in your day-to-day tasks.

Presenter
Kevin Porras

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/drupal-loves-composer-and-you-can-love-it-too

Drupal is not alone in the space of digital tools. Competitors like Wordpress, Joomla, Wix, SquareSpace, and more all offer similar content management features. Other products like Contentful and Webflow offer specific capabilities that also compete with Drupal.

This presentation tears down each of these products in an attempt to better understand its overlap with Drupal. How does Drupal differentiate? What opportunities exist for Drupal to become more competitive?

This talk takes a high level look at Drupal as a product by performing a SWOT analysis. Concepts like low/no-code, configurability, data modeling, APIs, and developer experience will be explored.

Presenter
Adam Bergstein

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/evaluating-landscape-drupal-competition

Let's "get off the island" and look at Drupal security from the point of view of an outsider.

The OWASP Top Ten is an industry standard list of the most common vulnerabilities that can affect web sites. This session will start with an overview of the Top Ten, and then take a more detailed look at a few of these vulnerabilities. We will review some actual Drupal security advisories:

What the vulnerability looks like
How the Drupal security team communicates the problem
The code that was updated to fix the ptoblem
The presenter is a provisional member of the Drupal security team.

Presenter
Benji Fisher

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/security-drupal-what-can-go-wrong

The Center for American Women and Politics recently launched 2 Drupal websites that fulfill a long held goal of providing greater access to their data on women officeholders. This presentation will talk about these 2 projects, including the challenges and successes of each. Along the way we'll discuss strategies for design, site architecture, migrations, and how to leverage core, contrib, and custom modules to build interconnected digital experiences.

Presenter(s)
Jessica Bladon
Sean T. Walsh

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/improving-data-access-and-editorial-experience-center-american-women-and-politics

Do you know that if your website runs in Drupal, it is like if it were guaranteed and maintained by 100,000+ developers, web architects and security specialists from all around the world? That is like 8-times the “Apple 1” building (yes, the huge circled one in Cupertino, California) full of people taking care that your website runs smoothly and securely. For sure the website owners at NASA, Tesla.com, Le Figaro, the Australian Government and more than a million other websites know it.

That's because they all use Drupal.

So, have you ever had doubts if your website could be ported or migrated to Drupal?

In this session, Jorge Diaz from Evolving Web, will present how 4 completely different websites were migrated (and even integrated) to/with Drupal. He will go into detail from the original legacy website to the final and end product.

What will you learn from this session
While you will have a specific section for Q&A at the end of the presentation, you will certainly learn:

The process to migrate any content website into Drupal 9.
How real life projects, indeed, were executed to complete the migrations.
The most popular modules involved.
How most complex website structures are migrated.
How to estimate a Drupal 9 migration project.
If you have questions about your site and want to bring it up to the public during the presentation, we would love to show everyone how it could be migrated, too.

About the Presenter
Jorge Diaz is a 2016 Acquia Certified Grand Master Developer currently working as Drupal Front-end Developer & Themer at Evolving Web, a Montreal-based company that specializes on Drupal, WordPress and Website creation/migration.

He has more than 15 years of experience delivering Drupal based General Purpose solutions for different sectors such as Job Boards, Product Portfolios, Geo Coding, Real Estate solutions, E-Commerce, Classifieds, Corporate and online Magazines/Newspapers.

Jorge is also the author of "Car Leasing Done Right" & Founder of LeaseCosts Canada, a popular tool used by millions of Canadians every year to explore car leasing options all across the country (also built with Drupal 9)

He has presented at many DrupalCamps and DrupalCons, especially in North America:

Speaker at DrupalCamp Ottawa 2018
Speaker at DrupalCamp Ottawa 2017
Speaker at Design4Drupal Boston 2017
Speaker at DrupalCamp Montreal 2017
Assistant Trainer & Attendee at DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
Trainer at MidCamp Chicago 2017
Speaker at DrupalCamp New Jersey 2017
Speaker at NYC Camp 2016 in New York
Speaker at DrupalCamp Ottawa 2016.
Trainer & Speaker at DrupalNorth 2016
Speaker at MidCamp Chicago 2016
Speaker at DrupalCamp NYC 2016
Speaker at DrupalCamp Montreal 2015
Speaker at DrupalCamp Ottawa 2015
Speaker at DrupalCamp Toronto 2014
Attendee at DrupalCamp Montreal 2014
Attendee at DrupalCon Prague 2013.

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/any-content-site-can-be-migrated-drupal-ill-show-you-how

Traditionally, Drupal developers have relied on the Views module to display content listings on their sites. While Views offers enormous flexibility for many use cases, it can sometimes be challenging to bend it to do exactly what you want, especially with regards to rich, interactive interfaces for filtering and sorting the content.

This session introduces an alternative solution using Vue.js, a Javascript framework that has exploded in popularity in recent years. I will provide a brief introduction to Vue.js and walk through some ways it can be used to create advanced content filtering interfaces using Drupal and other data sources.

While this session will not provide a deep look into Vue.js (this is not possible in 45 minutes), I will explain the high level concepts, show code snippets, and demonstrate how we (Web Development Services at Princeton) have used it on several projects.

Presenter
Brian Osborne

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/using-vuejs-create-rich-interactive-content-listings

This presentation is for anyone who has created a website using Drupal and is interested in discovering a standardized, simpler, and faster way to model and build a website's content and information architecture.

The Drupal community's current approach is to create a site using varying practices and then define the Schema.org types on top of the 'custom' content architecture. The Schema.org Blueprints module turns this current Schema.org-last approach around and explores what a site creation experience would look like if we take a Schema.org-first approach to building a site's content architecture leveraging Schema.org's schemas for structuring data.

Learn more about the future of our Drupal CMS and Schema.org: APIs, UI, and UX.

This presentation will explore and answer…

Schema.org

What is Schema.org?
What are some examples of Schema.org?
What are some key things to know about Schema.org?
Schema.org and Drupal

How is Schema.org being implemented in the Drupal community?
Why is Schema.org an afterthought?
What if Schema.org was aforethought?
Schema.org-first

What is Schema.org-first approach?
What are the challenges of a Schema.org-first approach?
What are the benefits of a Schema.org-first approach?
Schema.org Blueprints module

What is the Schema.org Blueprints module?
Why use the Schema.org Blueprints module?
Who should be using the Schema.org Blueprints module?
When to use the Schema.org Blueprints module?
How to use the Schema.org Blueprints module?
What is next for the Schema.org Blueprints module?

Presenter
Jacob Rockowitz

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/schemaorg-blueprints-drupal-0

Scaling Enterprise Design Systems for Outstanding Experiences

It’s never been more important to have a thoughtfully designed, highly functional digital presence that scales. Enterprise organizations that invest in Design Systems are achieving meaningful impact by responding to emergent needs with innovative solutions that eliminate technical debt and break endless cycles of fire-fighting.

Learn how FFW works with its clients to evolve Design Systems from guidelines and component libraries into tools and applications fueled by cross functional teams to deliver consistent on-brand experiences rapidly at scale based on data-driven analytics and user research in higher ed, pharma, and other sectors using all versions of Drupal.

Please join FFW Director of Solutions Ray Saltini and Lead Content Designer Amanda Konopko for an energetic and opinionated conversation about how your team can play a more strategic and proactive role creating outstanding experiences and results with design systems, including:

understanding Design System evolution and maturity
measuring Design System success
accelerating enterprise-wide adoption
real world examples and case studies, and
tools for leveraging Design Systems within Drupal

Presenter(s)
Amanda Konopko
Ray Saltini

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/optimizing-design-systems-drupal-0

Analytics and data-driven decision making have a distinct appeal in today’s digital landscape. We have more information than ever before about how people engage with our social media posts, our digital ads, and our websites. And yet, every website redesign project starts with a list of user pain points, and everyone wants to design a human-centric experience. And sometimes a single stakeholder comes along and makes a decision that isn't related to either data science or user research.

Somehow, in designing user experiences, in deciding on the information architecture for a new website, or what content to prioritize on the homepage, we have to have a way of making decisions that take into account all the useful inputs. It’s helpful to know which metrics to focus on and how to use different methods of making different types of decisions.

In this session, we’ll talk about:

User research techniques - how much testing and interviewing do we need to inform decisions?
The benefits and pitfalls of allowing analytics to dictate design and content decisions
Recommendations about KPIs to focus on, to make using your analytics data less overwhelming
Getting the most value out of stakeholder input and the dangers of design by committee
Combining different research and requirements gathering methods into a coherent web strategy

Presenter
Suzanne Dergacheva

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/user-experience-how-make-design-decisions-are-data-driven-user-centric-and-stakeholder

Drupal has come a long way since I was introduced to the community shortly after the release of Drupal 5. Now 15 years later and with the release of Drupal 10 on the horizon, I'm more excited about Drupal now than ever before. Let's take a look at where we're headed, some practical ways you can get involved, and why you should be excited about the future of Drupal too.

Presenter
Le'Rhone Walker

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/still-excited-about-drupal-and-why-you-should-be-too

Too many Drupal sites are not being kept up to date and running versions of Drupal core that have known security issues. Do you know if all your Drupal sites are on secure versions of Drupal core?
Solving this problem is one of the main reasons the Automatic Updates Initiative was launched. Automatic Updates is now a soon be stable contrib module in Drupal core and is planned to be added to one of the first release of Drupal 10. This session will help you familiarize yourself with this module and how it can be used to help you keep your Drupal sites secure.

Because Automatic Updates requires updating your site’s active codebase not every site will be able to use the module on their live site. We will review under what hosting conditions you will be able to use the module and how you can use the module locally or in a development environment to make updating Drupal core easier.

We will also explore how developers can extend the module to run site specific checks to ensure your site will be ready to update, validate an in-progress update and react to a completed update. In addition we will look at how developers directly can use the projects that Automatic Updates is built upon in powerful ways.

Presenter
Ted Bowman

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/getting-ready-automatic-updates-drupal-core

Whether you have a qualified Quality Assurance Engineer who knows SEO or not, this session will help you understand fundamental practices and processes that can save time and make your team’s workload more manageable while ensuring the highest standards. We’ll focus on what needs to be tested to guarantee the best metadata for your website.

Learning Objectives: After this session, attendees will be able to:

run a checklist to determine if you are following best practices for the metadata.
quickly audit the website and find needed contributed modules.
understand common search engine’s optimizations, Open Graph tags, and twitter metadata.

Presenter
Olga Kashchenko

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/metadata-seo-and-social-media

As part of building and maintaining Drupal projects, code changes and updates are progressively introduced and integrated into the code base. Sometimes, a small line of code tweak can introduce unforeseen consequences. Regression testing is about testing and making sure existing functionalities still work correctly after the updates.

For small projects, usually we maintain a small test suite and run it manually on each deployment. This is time-consuming and not error-proof, and doesn’t scale up well for big projects where there’s a lot of content that is impacted by module upgrades or content migrations. This is where automated testing tools are essential. In this session we discuss some use-cases for using SiteDiff and Playwright to automate regression tests.

Playwright: powerful open-source end-to-end testing framework, backed by Microsoft, support visual regression test
BackstopJS: open-source visual regression testing tool, comparing DOM snapshots
SiteDiff: command line tool, developed by Evolving Web, to compare different versions of pages of your site, at the markup level

Presenter(s)
Alex Dergachev
Robert Ngo

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/regression-testing-backstopjs-playwright-and-sitediff

There is no easy way to handle event registrations in Drupal. This requires either the use of external platforms for managing event registrations, custom programming to add payments to an existing registration module, or complex configuration and site building to leverage existing commerce modules to use products to track attendees. This either means complected setup or the user of external information. Drupal is designed to solve problems, not create them.

The Event Registration module is a new module for Drupal 9, which combines the Event module with Drupal Commerce. This module is being created to bridge the gap between commerce and managing events within Drupal, without the complex setup of previous implementations. The goal is to handle everything from different ticket types, checkout for paid tickets, reporting on attendees, event check-in, and countless other features which can be built with Drupal.

Out of the box, the event registration module is intended to provide new entities for tickets type and attendee information. Interfaces to report on registered attendees and handle event check-in. Combined with the power of Drupal, we can provide virtual events resources and a rich online experience for event attendees. The module could be used as the basis for a variety of websites, including free and paid events, trainings, conferences, and even Drupal Camps or Drupal Con.

We'll cover some of the alternatives and motivations for the module and cover basic setup of the module and how its used within a build. We'll cover the setup of the Event Registration module including the basic configuration of Drupal Commerce and the Event module.

Presenter
Rich Gerdes

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/introducing-event-registration-module-event-registration-powered-drupal-commerce

When bringing data into Drupal, do not settle for faithfully copying the source. Make the Drupal version better than the original!

The Migrate API in Drupal 8+ is a robust, flexible way for bringing data into Drupal. That includes building a new Drupal site based on an existing site (other system or earlier version of Drupal). It also includes recurring data imports (feeds).

This session looks at several examples: what can be done and how to do it with the Migrate API:

Use Editor styles
Structure unstructured content
Update links in body text
Update from Drupal 7 Media
The presenter is one of the co-maintainers of the Migrate API (a.k.a. the migration subsystem in Drupal core).

Presenter
Benji Fisher

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/build-back-better-migrate-api

The team behind Drupal.org began a study of developer tools in 2017, migrated our backend services to GitLab in 2019, and has ramped up to enable merge requests for the project in 2020. Now we’re working on making GitLab CI available and using GitLab for issues. We’re not taking the tools right off the shelf, we’re tuning them to the Drupal community’s collaboration style. Join us for this session to learn about the initiative.

The Drupal community has a single-threaded collaboration style, with multiple contributors, that has unique benefits in a world where contribution for other open source projects often means forks-of-forks-of-forks. By building an integration of GitLab into Drupal.org’s existing issue queue, we’re preserving that collaboration, while gaining the benefits of GitLab’s fork & branch management, merge requests, code review tools, and GitLab CI.

In this session we’ll review our observations of the way the Drupal community collaborates, and talk about how that is informing our integration of GitLab into the Drupal community’s workflow. Since GitLab is increasingly-widely used, and rapidly adding features, there is an opportunity to integrate additional tools and workflows, to help increase the velocity of Drupal.

At the end of this talk, we’ll have an open feedback session where we’ll answer your questions and take your suggestions for further enhancements to our tools.

Presenter
Neil Drumm

https://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions/drupalorg-gitlab-acceleration-update