Stuff I learned at DrupalCon 2010

BART is a hustle

If you're buying a Bay Area Rapid Transit card with and you don't have cash, they charge you $20.

Show up for early registration.

There where “unofficial” presentations the day before the conference started. These where some of the best presentations I saw during the whole con.

Show and Tell #1

Views Default Arguments from Context Smarter Views arguments than ever before 100% less php stashed in your database Replaces most use cases for Panels context

Code sprints are fun

Sprints are the best opportunity to get an aspect of Drupal explained to you, exhaustively if need be, until you've got it and are productive.

During the Q/A code sprint Matt, a local Drupal developer, went from not knowing unit testing in Drupal to having a patch accepted into core in 45 minutes

Also, all the cool kids hang out at the sprint.

Someone invited Microsoft

(I think it was Dries)

What I got out of it:

What everyone else got out of it:

MSSQL will be supported by Drupal Core. What this means is:

It just got a lot easier to pitch Drupal to a Windows shop.

We're in the big leagues now.

Show and tell #2

Chaos Tools: It's not just that module you have to install to

use Panels It does just about anything you ever wanted to

do with AJAX, without writing javascript It makes modal/multipart forms or any other

complex UI way simpler It also does a bunch of other stuff nobody

really understands yet.

Chapter Three is coming out with a Drupal-specific hosting product

Uses the Mercury cloud image Partnered with Rackspace Highly optimized Still waiting for my private beta invite, stay

tuned.

Odds and Ends (mostly odd)

There is now an official Drupal cardgame Chinatown and South of the Border have a lot

in common There is a new rent-a-coder style website for

Drupal: madewithdrupal.com