Dublin 2016
News & Updates
Welcome to Dublin, stranger. Why don't you come and warm yourself round our campfire? There. That's better.
Help yourself to stew, it's all we have, but you're welcome to share it.
It's good stew, warms all the right parts in all the right ways. The only thing we ask in return is that you share with us your secrets. You know, the secrets of your success.
Don't be shy now, I can see from the way you walk that you're a superstar project manager. Seeing that sort of thing is just a gift of mine, I guess.
So, we've all heard of the word DevOps, we've all heard of the word FullStack developer. But what are you really? You might question yourselves every day whether or not you are working in one of those roles. Or do you prefer to call yourselves just an engineer?
When trying to resolve an issue in Drupal, the most common question you’ll hear is, “Have you cleared the cache?” The question is so ubiquitous that we often forget that caching – and more importantly performance – has been an important part of Drupal for a long time. As Drupal has matured, many sites have started to employ additional performance and scaling techniques: utilizing CDNs for additional caching, making optimizations in the theme layer for faster interaction and automating infrastructure to respond to changing demands.
Intrepid developers of the Drupal community!
This year saw the bravest of explorers venture out into the harsh and unforgiving landscapes of the World (Wide Web).
Wearing only t-shirts from past DrupalCons, they put all of their trust in the hard work of their friends and colleagues, as they set out on a mission: to use Drupal 8 on real projects!
Are you fatigued as a Frontender? You are not alone. Frontend developers are moving in rapid waters all of the time. The explosion of frameworks and tools during the last 3 years was supposed to help us, but a feeling of overwhelmingness can hit easily.
The polyglot frontend-er
Our mother tongue is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and add SVG to the mix. But to help us in our tasks, we've added Sass/Less, multiple templating languages, Markdown, JavaScript transpilers, testing languages, and what not.