DrupalCon sessions about Coding and Development

Last time, we gathered together DrupalCon Baltimore sessions about Project Management. Before that, we explored Case Studies. We promised that we will also look in some other areas. Therefore, we will this time see, which sessions were present in the area of Coding and Development.

Code Standards: It’s Okay to be Yourself, But Write Your Code Like Everyone Else by Alanna Burke from Chromatic

In this session, attendees learned both formatting standards for their code and documentation standards, as well as some specifics for things like Twig, and object-oriented programming in Drupal 8. The session was appropriate for beginners and experts of Drupal and it also covered how to implement coding standards using tools like Coder and PHP Codesniffer, and how to make the editor do some of the work for Drupal users.

Deep dive into D8 through Single Sign-On Example by Arlina Espinoza Rhoton from Chapter Three

In this session, the author went through a single sign-on (SSO) example module, which helped everybody understand, how OOP works its magic into the modules, making them easier to write, understand and debug. In the way, they uncovered some of Drupal’s design patterns.

Devel — D8 release party by Moshe Weitzman from Drupal Association

The session covers a Devel project, which has been revitalized and revamped for Drupal 8. Therefore, the attendees learned about all Devel’s new features and APIs.

Drupal Commerce Performance by Shawn McCabe from Acro Media

This session gives an overview of performance problems with Drupal Commerce and Drupal 7 and ways to fix or mitigate them. It also touches changes coming with Commerce 2.x for Drupal 8 and how this will affect performance in Drupal, especially related to cache contexts and bigpipe.

More sessions about Coding and Development from DrupalCon Baltimore.