This session will address the decision points involved in developing and deploying Drupal for maximum efficiency. We'll discuss tools, techniques, and architectures to make the best use of your time and money. Novel approaches to common efficiency challenges in development and deployment will be demonstrated. Features technologies from Sun Microsystems: NetBeans, VirtualBox, OpenSolaris, Glassfish Webstack, plus cloud computing.

This session will be divided in 2 parts:

• In first part (20 min) I am going to discuss about
  1. Socializing Your Web Using Open Authentication and how it could drive more traffic to you sites.
  2. Why open standard authentication systems should be implemented?

  For more details I recently wrote a blog about it here http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/may/31/google_io_goole_wave_and_social...

Quality Assurance is Good for Business. But most of the times it is avoided to deliver product at competitive price. Contrib modules and themes can provide great advantage or great frustration to the end user. I'll discuss some standard and not-so-standard techniques that help ensure the delivery of quality Drupal sites that are a joy to use.

Agenda:

• Why Quality Assurance is important?
• Covering basics of Selenium Framework?
• How to write tests and test suits using Selenium Framework.

Speaker:

Sumit Kataria
http://drupal.org/user/267786

We'll start off with an intro to Adobe Flex and why it is gaining popularity as a tool for front-end development. I'll discuss the differences between Flex, Flash, and Actionscript, and give examples of each.

Next we'll hit the trenches and I'll demo building a basic Flex application in Eclipse.

Then we'll set up a basic Drupal backend and make some services available for Flex to consume.

Finally we'll connect the dots and configure our Flex front-end to consume Drupal services.

You don't have to start from scratch to build a powerful, modern Web site. In this session, we take you through the organizational planning and Drupal development work currently underway to upgrade the The Public Press web site into a modern news destination.

The Public Press (www.public-press.org) is a San-Francisco-based news organization that covers issue of importance to the SF Bay Area -- without accepting advertiser dollars. The site was originally built on Drupal 5 with a blog-like format. We'll give you a sneak peak at the upgraded Drupal 6 site, which goes far beyond.

Walk away from this session knowing how to use the jQuery JavaScript library to breathe new life into your Drupal sites by offering your users smarter forms, more intuitive navigation, and more interactive content.

We'll go over the basics of jQuery, cover how to use it within Drupal themes and modules, and progress to examples of how to build painless rollovers, dynamic navigation, interactive forms, and more.

Pre-reqs: You should have at least a beginner's understanding of JavaScript, and should understand basic CSS concepts.

revised... please see

http://www.badcamp.net/session/theming-zen

We'll discuss the Facebook Platform, and how Facebook Applications can be implemented using the Drupal for Facebook modules.

We'll cover...

• What we mean by "facebook application"
• Facebook Connect
• Canvas Pages
• Drupal for Facebook installation and configuration
• Building for Facebook, the Drupal way!

With both Google and Yahoo's support of RDFa, the increasing use of topic hubs for SEO and the growing use of tools like Zemanta and Open Calais, publishers are realizing immediate value from semantic technologies today.

This session will introduce content delivery stake holders and developers alike to the principles behind semantic technologies and identify the ways these technologies can increase both short and long term value for publishers.

Getting involved with Drupal brings with it a significant initial learning curve. With Drupal there are so many possibilities which exist and more are available every day. So the challenge of how to 'tackle' your Drupal development effort is compounded by the matter of staying current with the ever changing Drupal world. Facing these conditions it's no wonder that many Drupalers feel like they frequently 'take one step forward and two steps back'...

In this session Caleb Gilbert, who came to Drupal four years ago knowing "just HTML" and is now very active in the Drupal community, and leads a multiperson development team for a large Drupal site, will share tools, tips, and experience which will help you manage your learning curve, rather than being managed by it.

Topics covered

The short-term, "getting starting":

Long-term