Program Tuesday December 4th

With DrupalSouth now in its 10th year the Australia/NZ Drupal community is STILL solely driven by a relatively small group of ad-hoc volunteers. What strategies and best practices could be adopted to ensure we're all still here in another 10 years?

Moving GovCMS SaaS and PaaS sites between Acquia and Lagoon shouldn’t be that hard, right? In this talk, we’ll discuss how we created system utilising AWX-based runners, building an automated workflow that can be continuously used and reused to easily migrate sites of different level of complexity.

Drupal is a powerful tool, but from experience, the difference between a success and a disaster is not the quality of the code or brilliance of the design, but the ability to avoid dangers common to every project. This is a guide for dodging those landmines and increasing your chances of success.

With Behat you can write tests that visit your site as a user would. But there's an art to writing good Behat scripts. This session shows you how to get the most value out of behat tests: write tests that end users can read, and that developers can easily maintain.

Back in 2007, the very first iPhone was released, the last Harry Potter book was published, and Britney Spears had an extra tough year. Drupal 5 also shipped with jQuery!

Over ten years later, not much has changed with Drupal's JavaScript architecture, but in the meantime the way we build websites has shifted hugely and, as a consequence, Drupal's role has shifted too. 

WHERE: Ostani, Hotel Realm

WHEN: December 4th, 530pm till late

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