DrupalCambs Drupal 8 Event

DrupalCambs Drupal 8 Event

Thursday, Oct 29, 2015
This Wednesday (28th October 2015) saw DrupalCambs’ Drupal 8 release session, featuring three talks about the new version of the software. The session was very well attended, with people from a range of technical backgrounds and all levels of Drupal experience present. First up was our very own Will Hall, who gave a talk about Drupal 8 ‘out-of-the-box’, and all the new features that come as standard with the new version. He gave a brief run through of new goodies such as Inline Form Errors, the inclusion of Views and CKEditor in core, Responsive Images and Breakpoints, Fieldable Blocks, Configuration Management and all the rest of it, with a particular focus on the beenfits these items would bring for site builders. ...

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UK & Ireland DrupalCamps 2012

UK & Ireland DrupalCamps 2012

Sunday, Jan 27, 2013
I thought that a retrospective at DrupalCamps (not sure whether those words should be joined or not?) over 2012 would be an interesting thing to look at. Both to see the enthusiasm and passion that is behind the Drupal community in the UK & Ireland but also to contrast with other development and tech conferences. My initial inspiration was receiving a mailshot from an unnamed conference offering conference tickets at the early bird price of £999.99 (+VAT). Personally I found this price rather expensive (although I am sure that there could be claims that they have to pay for venue, food, security, presenters and such like), however, it made me wonder about the great disparity in cost from different conferences. ...

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