Proposed sessions

For Theater Basel we have created an extensive archive with the productions since 1989 (archiv.theater-basel.ch).

In this session I will present the working method as well as the implemented solution. A special focus will be on the low coded timeline with the filter and the archive search. This is the core and makes the content accessible for everyone.

Themes are designed by designers for end users. In this process we somehow forget frontend developers that are doing actual implementation and equally important maintenance of themes later. Let’s see what we can do to make their life easier in this process. We will present to you how we build themes for clients of MD Systems, what tools we use and what workflows.

Forms are hard. They are hard to build and hard to use. End users usually struggle with complex forms, multi page forms, complex search forms (etc). But building forms that are simple (as much as possible) and accessible to end users is just part of the story, your form also needs to look good. We do not make forms to look good just so they are beautiful to our eyes, good looking forms are also important for our user experience.

In the past few years, multiple agencies have hired people new to Drupal introduced them to the topic. Just recently, we also have multiple newcomers and the need to have a nice collection of learning resources for getting started.

"Learning Drupal" is a very wide topic, and sometimes it's about gaining fundamental knowledge of git, bash and many other tools first.

It's a pity that every agency does their own research to identify valuable learning resources. We want to change that.

The idea is to start with two components:

During the pandemic, the Drupal DACH group was created and a few joint presentations were held. This allowed for some ongoing activity while we didn't continue with our own previous interval in Switzerland.

While the Drupal DACH meetup focuses on german presentations, we also have our french and italian speaking part in Switzerland and connections to further neighbor countries like France, Italy and more.

While digital transformation is not a new term for most, it certainly means a big change when a legacy organization in the highly regulated insurance domain, with more than 200 microsites adopts it. 

Miro will introduce accessibility which is often misunderstood as a complex and expensive additional requirement of government projects to allow participation of (the few) disabled people.

Testing websites is a key step in ensuring that they behave correctly and are not broken.
It can be highly time-consuming, and many strategies have been developed to automatically test websites.

Cypress is a relatively new solution that has recently seen more widespread use as an automatic tests framework. We have developed tests in Cypress for two clients, and would like to give an introduction to the framework.

A lightning talk about how it is to work for an all-remote, open-core company like GitLab.

A lot has happened since my last talk on Gin at DrupalCon Europe 2021. I'll walk you through all the new stuff - spoiler alert - there is a lot to talk about!

Some changes we'll touch:
- Gin Facelift
- Secondary toolbar changes
- Refactored code
- Developer friendliness
- Gin API
and so much more!

I'm very excited to share all the changes that have been made in the last few months, and also briefly show you what else is on the roadmap in the coming months!

Covering most important aspects of working with entities. From basic CRUD, working with entity fields, revisions, translations, entity templates in PHP and twig as well as some deep dives into inner workings of Content Entities. And finally, room for the questions you always wanted to ask an entity system maintainer.

The session will focus on content entities and working with existing entity types, defining a new entity type from scratch will not be covered.

Topics (Non-final):

The purpose of this session is to demystify the use of automated testing systems for both unit and functional tests. We will demonstrate how important yet relatively easy to implement the practice (even though we will not attempt to teach you how to develop and write tests). We will present an overview of different testing methods and compare manual, automated and semi-automated tests along with their respective Pros and Cons.  

Let's start testing and create a wordle-clone with as much unit test coverage as we can over this period.

A basic setup will be provided and together we will write all the implementation needed to ensure that we have a working application and that all moving parts are tested.

In this session, I will be talking about all the important points that one should keep in their mind regarding Images in a Drupal website. Since Images are a very important website element that not only impacts how your website looks but is also a key factor in deciding the load time of your website. These are the main concepts that I'll be touching on:

Back in 2019, our company was preparing for a period of fast growth. One of the key blockers to that growth was a monolithic application called Accounts. Built initially around 2014 as a rapidly developed proof of concept, it quickly became a central piece for the customer interaction, a billing system, an auth server, a support ticketing system, the project lifecycle management system. The engineering debt grew exponentially with every new feature added. The system needed to be replaced.

Communication and collaboration in teams and organizations is THE challenge. Right?

Imagine that you can suddenly talk about these topics very easily - using LEGO models.

Imagine that working out complex topics like strategy, values, product, processes can be done seriously and yet with fun.

And not only do you manage to get your point across more clearly, but you also better understand the other perspectives of your team colleagues.

Drupal and PHP are usually a bad fit when it comes to real time applications with live updates.

The most solutions for this problem are closed source, paid only and not a good fit for php in general.

Probably some of you have heard about Pub/Sub, pusher, socket.io, web-sockets, GraphQL subscriptions, EventSource or  http fetch streams.

Most of these protocols and services offer a very niche use-case and depend on specific implementations and vendors.

I am planning to talk about the importance of Open Source Contribution and how one can encourage more and more of their team members to contribute. Most of us who are part of the Drupal community or involved with any other open-source project understand the importance of giving back to the project and the benefits of that as well in the long run.

After more than a decade working in the world of Drupal agencies, I made what felt like a drastic switch to the world of tech startups and joined a company doing conversational AI. While there are many differences, I also found more similarities than I expected, and I would like to share what I learned along the way.