MidCamp 2019
2019-03-21..2019-03-24
Chicago, United States
MidCamp ·
[MidCamp 2017, MidCamp 2018, MidCamp 2019, MidCamp 2020]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Actions Speak Louder than Code | Fatima Sarah Khalid | 57m |
Argues that communities deserve the same maintenance as code and proves it with a live Slido live polls choose‑your‑own‑adventure: three real scenarios (plane… | ||
| Adopting a Drupal Contrib-First Approach | Jason Want | 29m |
Argues a contrib-first workflow adopted at Nerdery: onboard clients to drupal.org and organizational attribution, monitor issue queues, submit patches, and… | ||
| How to give a Drupal Camp talk! | Jonathan (Jack) Franks | 28m |
Step-by-step advice for giving a first Drupal camp talk with concrete actions: pick one cool problem you solved, practice three or four times and rehearse live… | ||
| Level Up Your Drupal 8 Configuration Management | Scott Weston | 31m |
Presents a practical recipe called Config MISO that combines core config export/import with config_split and config_ignore plus settings.php overrides to keep… | ||
| Understanding migration development in Drupal 8: Strategies and tools to see what's happening | dan montgomery | 30m |
Covers concrete, repeatable migration steps: scaffolding a custom migration module, mapping Drupal 7 source fields to Drupal 8 destinations, and iterating with… | ||
| Audit Your Theme | Andrew Olson | 30m |
Walks through concrete tools and exact metrics to shrink and monitor theme CSS: run Parker (outputs JSON) to find file size (example 192 KB), total rules… | ||
| Taking Drupal Commerce to Market: 2019 Roadmap | Ryan Szrama | 29m |
Drupal Commerce is already powering 7,000 Drupal 8 sites and claims headless setups that scale to 10,000 orders in a single hour; the 2019 roadmap focuses on… | ||
| Empathy for internal users: Build and train for real content admins | Lily Berman, Nick Switzer | 31m |
Claim: a site’s admin UI and training determine success, so build focused editors and train for real users. Uses core Media, Views and contrib modules like… | ||
| Lost on an Island: Building Remote Collaboration in Cross-Continent Distributed Teams | Adriana Mosnoi, Andrew Willden | 27m |
Distributed teams across 12 time zones find only a one-hour global overlap most days, so the team enforces calendars with personal busy slots, documents… | ||
| A Modern Designer's Workflow | Randy Oest | 33m |
A practical workflow that replaces pixel pushing with reusable components: designers build Sketch symbols and shared libraries, use plugins like Split Shape… | ||
| Iterative UX: Find It Cambridge Case Study | Benjamin Melançon | 33m |
Find It Cambridge starts from 1,250 parent survey responses and 220 provider interviews, builds a structured-data site via a Jekyll-powered living wireframe… | ||
| Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How Weightlifting Helped Me Accept My Place in Tech | Kristen Mayer | 33m |
Describes applying weightlifting habits to reduce impostor syndrome in tech with concrete tactics: stop comparing, ask for help, set measurable goals (example… | ||
| Anonymous Personalization Without Leaving Drupal | Mike Lander | 47m |
A Drupal module suite called Smart Content implements a client-side decision engine that evaluates browser properties, cookies and local storage to swap blocks… | ||
| Community Working Group Update and Q&A | George DeMet, Michael Anello | 33m |
Community Working Group explains concrete changes: now public minutes and an annual-ish report, a new review panel (two community-elected board members plus an… | ||
| Guide to Security in Higher Ed and Beyond | David Needham, Paul Gilzow | 01h 00m |
Universities are high-value targets because of bandwidth, dot‑edu reputation and troves of PII; concrete defenses recommended include daily automated backups… | ||
| Composer 101 | Michael Miles | 58m |
Composer manages PHP dependencies using three files and one directory: composer.json, composer.lock, the vendor directory and the composer.phar executable… | ||
| Feeds UI + Migrate Engine = Dream Migrations and Imports | Irina Zaks | 40m |
Feeds UI now drives the Migrate engine via the feeds_migrate module, letting site builders create importers in the UI that run core Migrate jobs. Core D7→D8… | ||
| Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis | Jeff Geerling | 32m |
A Raspberry Pi cluster runs Drupal 8 on Kubernetes, automated with Ansible, and the build lives at pidramble.com and on GitHub. A four-node Pi 2 cluster… | ||
| Ace any design in Drupal - layout tools and components in your site-building toolbox | Anna Mykhailova | 30m |
Shows concrete recipes: build full-page layouts with container content types plus entity reference and inline entity form to get reliable revisions; use a… | ||
| My Ambitious Experience with Drupal 8; the Rest is History | Jack Garratt | 25m |
A cohort of 13 students (about five doing most of the work) migrates a small non-profit from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 for ARCS, building a responsive site with a… | ||
| Principles of Unit Testing | Joseph Purcell | 01h 00m |
Defines a unit test as verifying a unit against a specification and walks through concrete PHPUnit examples using PHPUnit and Prophecy, demonstrating the five… | ||
| Data Visualization in Drupal | Daniel Cothran | 51m |
Module explains plotting Drupal data with Views display format "Chart" and uses Views, Blocks and Fields to produce charts from Drupal or external DBs (works… | ||
| Personal Internet Security Basics | Dan Ficker | 52m |
Describes a real Netflix account takeover after an old iPhone app leak and shows how cross-site reuse made attackers try other services; demonstrates checking… | ||
| Inclusive Content Strategy | AmyJune Hineline | 55m |
Argues that inclusion depends on concrete editorial rules not goodwill: require 9th-grade reading level, use plain language, enforce heading hierarchy and… | ||
| Intro to Views - Creating Dynamic Lists of Content | Jake Ineichen | 01h 03m |
Shows concrete Views work: builds a page and a block from eight example articles, switches formats between grid with teasers and fields-only cards, adds a… | ||
| An Introduction to Static Site Generators for Drupalists and Static Site Show and Tell | Brian Perry | 46m |
Compares three concrete workflows and what actually works: Jekyll expects markdown and has importers for Drupal 6/7 but no polished Drupal 8 path, supports… | ||
| Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS | David Needham | 49m |
Workshop shows how to run BackstopJS via Node and headless Chrome to take reference screenshots and run comparisons with Backstop reference/test commands… | ||
| Federated Search with Drupal, Solr, and React | Matthew Carmichael, dan montgomery | 58m |
Open-source federated search that replaces Google Search Appliance by indexing multiple Drupal sites into a single Solr index and rendering results with a… | ||
| Hosting Drupal on AWS | Mike Wagner | 01h 10m |
Breakthrough builds a reproducible AWS stack for Drupal using Terraform + Chef to provision EC2 (Amazon Linux), RDS (multi‑AZ with PITR), EFS for shared files… | ||
| Energizing the Seated | J.D. Flynn, Avi Schwab | 31m |
Remote-work kit: improvised standing desk from a 27" display and boxes then an Ikea crank-up desk (~$300), plus 1+ year with a trainer and ~4 years using a… | ||
| Erasing the Stigma | J.D. Flynn, Avi Schwab | 33m |
Personal story of living with major depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and how treatment (medication, routines, therapy) plus workplace practices actually improve… | ||
| Practical Ways to Include people with disabilities in design | Liz Davis | 51m |
Practical recruiting channels include independent living centers, university disability offices, advocacy groups and social media newsletters; the workflow… | ||
| Adoptable Goats Near Me: What I Googled the Year I Became a Developer | Qymana Botts | 31m |
Chronicles moving from teaching to web dev through 18-week Dev Bootcamp experience: nine weeks remote then nine weeks onsite with 16-hour days. Learns PHP and… | ||
| An External Design System in Practice | Brian Perry | 32m |
Rebranding migrates three sites into a single style system but ends with a partial Drupal 8 migration and two WordPress sites all sharing the same components… | ||
| Event Organizers Panel | J.D. Flynn, Michael Anello, Kevin Thull, AmyJune Hineline, April Sides, Dan Moriarty | 01h 02m |
Panelists report concrete experiments and outcomes: a sponsor-only workshop yields strong positive feedback but some small agencies feel excluded; camps that… | ||
| Designing Accessible Sign Up Forms | Michellanne Li | 29m |
Rebuild of a vacation-rentals signup flow surfaces concrete fixes: restore keyboard focus and add a skip to main link, turn the modal into three concise… | ||
| An Introduction to Gulp | Tim Erickson | 50m |
Beginner‑level, hands‑on walkthrough of Gulp that shows the actual gulpfile.js and package.json entries, how to install plugins with npm, and concrete tasks: a… | ||
| Where is my next project coming from? Sales pipeline management for freelancers and small agencies | Chris ODonnell | 31m |
Shows a concrete sales funnel spreadsheet approach: assign stages, probabilities and compute expected value so a $50k average project and a $500k revenue goal… | ||
| Delivering Headless Commerce | Matt Glaman | 33m |
Commerce Guys builds a Commerce Cart API and a Commerce Cart Flyout reference implementation that let JavaScript front ends add items and show carts against… | ||
| How to Hire and Fire Your Employer | April Sides | 32m |
Work time consumes about 34% of awake hours and the talk gives concrete tactics: inventory hard/soft assets, name five nonnegotiable values, use Plan A/B/Z for… | ||
| Preprocessing Paragraphs: A Beginner's Guide | Larry Walangitan | 26m |
A practical four-step recipe for Drupal 8 paragraph preprocessing: hook_theme to declare paragraph types, a dedicated preprocessor class with per-paragraph… | ||
| Amazing Emails from Drupal 8 | Wayne Eaker | 32m |
Drupal 8 can send branded, responsive transactional emails using the Easy Email contrib module backed by Swift Mailer + mail_system; templates are editable… | ||
| Level Up Your Development Experience with Lando | Aaron Feledy | 33m |
Lando is a Docker-based wrapper that standardizes local stacks with a single committed config file (.lando.yml), letting teams run one command to pull an… | ||
| SimplyTest.me - A community case study | Adam Bergstein | 32m |
SimplyTest.me is a free, open-source sandbox service that spins up in ~1 minute and returns a full Drupal site wired from drupal.org metadata, using Drush and… | ||
| Accessibility for Project Managers | Heather Gantz | 44m |
Project management guidance that demands concrete actions: prioritize WCAG 2.1 conformance in acceptance criteria, treat accessibility as ongoing work not a… | ||
| Effective Cross-Functional Communication | Catrina Ahlbach, Andrew Olson | 36m |
Practical playbook showing ground rules and repeatable tactics: assume positive intent, take responsibility for both sending and receiving messages, and treat… | ||
| Bash is magic # No it's not | Dwayne McDaniel | 01h 02m |
Claim: anyone who can type can use the CLI to automate repetitive web tasks. Demonstrations show using Bash with WP-CLI, Drush, Composer, Git, curl, grep… | ||
| A Chirping Colorful Review of Web Design Usage | Angela Chih, Sara Gladchun, Valyn Dall, Elissa Irhamy | 31m |
Group extracts palettes from bird photos (using ColorMind, Coolors, eyedropper extensions, Adobe and PMS references) and maps them to triadic… | ||
| Maximum PhpStorm | Chris Weber | 40m |
Shows step‑by‑step how PhpStorm finds and fixes real Drupal issues: enabling PHP_CodeSniffer integration, running a project‑wide inspection, auto‑reformatting… | ||
| You Are Here: Exploring the Most Magical CMS on Earth | Lisa McCray | 31m |
Maps Drupal 8 to Walt Disney World to show how Drupal core = hub: visible pieces (active theme, core modules, contributed/custom modules) sit on top of a… | ||
| Backdrop CMS: past and future | Jen Lampton, Nate Lampton | 01h 01m |
Backdrop claims a strict four-month release cadence (13 releases since 1.0) and ships practical features: a compatibility layer to ease Drupal 7 upgrades, a… | ||
| Beyond Herding Cats: Lessons for Project Management in a Small Agency | Tori Lewis | 29m |
Advice for small agencies with teams of 2–7: adopt lightweight, evolving practices instead of full Scrum, run timeboxed meetings with a shared agenda, and… | ||
| The Curmudgeon's Guide to Building Drupal Websites | Chris Greatens | 37m |
Practical checklist for building Drupal 8 sites: get involved in design early, document an architecture plan, and decide hosting (Pantheon vs internal infra)… | ||
| Digital Well-Being: If you need to resort to alert fatigue, you’re designing it wrong. | Min Jin Kim, Neha Bhomia, Danny Teng, Benjamin Sutton | 27m |
Claims that alert fatigue desensitizes users and harms mental health are tied to concrete examples: a campus false alarm that sends 45 notifications in 2.5… | ||
| Make Drupal 7 Development Fun and Modern | Allan Chappell | 52m |
Shows how to add PSR autoloading into Drupal 7 using XAutoload, build namespaced module classes and register them to create blocks, and pull in a third‑party… | ||
| Stay Hungry. An appetite for New Business | Brett Tesmer | 01h 00m |
Creates a dedicated new-business function, drops low-fit leads with a strict yellow lights qualification, and shifts effort from volume to focus so pipeline… | ||
| Intermediate To Advanced CSS For Practical Peoples | Wes Ruvalcaba | 04h 48m |
Training focuses on why CSS behaves the way it does and how to fix it: live demos show Grid for large two‑dimensional layouts and Flexbox for one‑dimensional… | ||
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