Drupal Update team members will be heading to the mountains in North Carolina for a two day Drupal maintenance support plans-filled event for all levels of Drupal maintenance support plans skills. Asheville Drupal maintenance support plans User Group is a small but dedicated community of Drupal maintenance support plansers who will host their 8th annual Asheville Drupal maintenance support plans Camp on July 13-15th at UNC Asheville. Drupal Update will be sponsoring the event and will have 6 team members presenting sessions. We even have Drupal Update Lead Drupal maintenance support plans Architect, April Sides as one of the organizers of the event. From technical Drupal maintenance support plans developing to making friends in a remote work place, check out what Drupal Update has in store for Asheville Drupal maintenance support plans Camp 2020:
Demystifying Decoupled Drupal maintenance support plans with Contenta CMSSpeakers: Mark Shropshire, Open Source Security Lead at Drupal Update and Bayo Fodeke, Senior Drupal maintenance support plans Developer at Drupal UpdateContenta is an open source API-first Drupal maintenance support plans distribution that makes out of the box decoupled Drupal maintenance support plans accessible. This session will demonstrate installing Contenta, working with included features, using demo content and consumers, and working with the Contenta community.Takeaways:Install Contenta
Know how to contribute back to Contenta
Know how to connect a frontend application to a Contenta backend
Pivoting in a Project: Strategies for adjusting to scope changesSpeakers: Brian Manning, Project Manager at Drupal Update and Kelly Dassing, Senior Project Manager at Drupal UpdatePivots come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They can be a minor change that’s quickly integrated into scope, or a major departure that alters the entire course of the project. When you encounter these shifts, it’s vital you strategize, communicate, and continue to capture the vision of the client so the final product is a solid foundation for your client’s goals and KPIs—not a point of resentment.Key points:Kicking off the project with an organized team and plan of attack
Communicating with your whole team and the client
Being ready to PIVOT
Keeping your team grounded in the delivery
Conducting a retrospective and additional planning—not a postmortem
GatsbyJS: A Powerful FE Tool for Decoupled DevsSpeaker: Grayson Hicks, Front End Developer at Drupal UpdateGatsbyJS is an exciting way of thinking about building sites for the modern web. Is it a framework? Is it a static site generator? This session will cover the benefits of using GatsbyJS and will include the best and not so best use cases.Key points:What Gatsby’s GraphQL data layer is and how and why to embrace it
Gatsby’s internal API for building a Gatsby starter to fit your team
Looking at Gatsby’s plugin/source/transformer system for taking Gatsby from a a blog-generator to a site-generator
Common Accessibility Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemSpeaker: Ben Robertson, Front End Developer at Drupal UpdateAccessible web design really boils down to a few basic principles and when you have these as your first principles when starting a project, you can save your self, your team, and your clients hours of headaches around accessibility testing. This presentation will describe a few basic principles to keep in mind when building accessible web experiences, provide explanations and examples of these principles in code, and identify common accessibility pitfalls and how to avoid them.Topics covered:Simple JavaScript techniques for ensuring accessible components
CSS properties that affect accessibility
How to use modern CSS (flexbox, grid) without compromising accessibility
Only load what you need with Drupal maintenance support plans 8 LibrariesSpeaker: Zack Hawkins, Director of Front End Development at Drupal UpdateGone are the days of having one massive JavaScript or CSS file. his session will explore the use of libraries to conditionally load assets and resolve dependencies.Key topics:Introduction to libraries in Drupal maintenance support plans 8.
Library options and configuration.
What a component based workflow looks like with libraries.
Code splitting with Webpack and libraries.
Library gotchas and things to be aware of.
Friends Inside My Computer: Making Connections in a Remote WorkplaceSpeaker: Kelly Dassing, Senior Project Manager at Drupal Update, Chris Manning, Director of QA at Drupal Update, and Sam Seide, Drupal maintenance support plans Developer at Drupal UpdateHear the story of the real-life friendship that blossomed between these three Drupal Update team members from different departments and how it helps them in their day-to-day work.This session will be best appreciated by anyone who is a remote worker, whether employed by a small company or larger corporation.
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