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Ben Everard - Why I'm A Maker

Created September 6, 2017

A short and light-hearted talk on why I'm a maker, told through a story from when the seed was planted to now. Talking about projects I've made or am...

Alick Mighall - Why We Use Open Source

Created September 6, 2017

This session looks at the various benefits of using open source software for content managed solutions, covering why it's good for product quality,...

Jon Smith And David Lillington - Yha, Acquia And Agency Relationships

Created September 5, 2017

The Youth Hostel Association (England & Wales): a well-established UK charity that has been helping young people, schools, families and friends to...

Dave Liddament - Is What You've Coded What You Mean?

Created September 5, 2017

Imagine a venn diagram of your last software project. Consider three parts: what the code should do, what the code actually does and what the...

George Boobyer - Website Insecurity - How Your Cms Site Will Get Hacked And How To Prevent It

Created September 5, 2017

Public facing web sites are constantly under attack and keeping websites protected is an arms race, yet security rarely gets a look-in at...

Matt Jukes - The Wrong Users

Created September 5, 2017

The mission of mySociety is to '..build the digital tools that give people power to get things changed' but at FixMyStreet are we empowering the...

Deji Akala - From Request To Response: How Drupal 8 Works

Created September 5, 2017

An exploration of what happens from the moment a request is received by Drupal 8 and a response is returned.

Erik Erskine - Help! This Composer Stuff Is Confusing

Created September 5, 2017

Drupal 8 makes use of Composer - a tool widely used in PHP for managing dependencies. Composer's introduction hasn't been plain sailing. There are...

Lee Stone - Code Reviews And How To Improve Them

Created September 5, 2017

We know that code reviews are considered an important part of creating high quality software and to making ourselves and our teams better - some of...

Rob Humphries - Get Ready For Gdpr

Created September 5, 2017

The General Data Protection Regulation is coming and the Drupal community is way under-prepared! Rob's talk is a quick start guide for the...

Keir Moffatt - Pattern Libraries: How To Make Your Backend Love Your Frontend

Created September 5, 2017

I was once taught to 'code obvious, not clever’ - as a freelancer, it is critical that the code I handover is easy to understand, extend and...

Chandeep Khosa - Making Commerce, Webform & Group Modules Play Nicely Together

Created September 5, 2017

I recently worked on a complex Drupal website for an insurance company. I'll be going through how architectural decisions were made, the challenges...