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Are you a lazy developer? If you aren't, you should be! Find out about editor tricks that can save you hours and hours of effort and frustration. Learn about browser tips that make it easy to test your sites with different users, track down elusive bugs, and test. Develop the virtue of laziness by automating as much as you can with makefiles, the Drupal Shell, regression tests, and other goodies. Share your best tips during this interactive session. Use your new free time to rock even more!

More time doing repetitive tasks while building a Drupal site means less time to push the envelope. This is a story about how we got out of this infinite loop and started spending our time more wisely in Drupal through the use of "features". This presentation will be split between a brief time-elapsed history of the problem, a step-by-step demo of packaging a feature in code, and a demo/discussion of how features and Spaces can change how you think about Drupal site architecture altogether.

Drush is a command line and scripting interface to Drupal and has a growing community of modules that allow you to rapidly provision, maintain and develop Drupal sites. Drush takes a many-step task and replaces it with a single command - e.g. "drush pm update" will find the latest stable versions of each site module from the Drupal.org, propose any updates, back up the old versions, download the new versions and unpack. This session will get you started and productive with this great tool.

Input formats and text filters are one of the scariest parts of Drupal, but also one of the most important. As "guardians at the gate," input formats let users contribute text to a site in a way that can be both easy and safe. This session will focus on what input formats are, how they work, and some of the new, exciting features in Drupal 7 that will make them work even better and enable great new functionality (WYSIWYGs in core, perhaps?).

Anyone who spent any time dealing with files in previous versions of Drupal knows what a pain it was. In Drupal 7 all that has changed. This session will examine at the new FileAPI and what it has to offer contrib module developers.

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Search Lucene API is an interface for modules to index and search content using a Lucene backend. Search Lucene API integrates the Zend Framework's Zend_Search_Lucene component to provide a native PHP implementation of the Apache Lucene project.

Search Engine Optimization is the art & technology of making a website "optimized" for consumption & indexing by search engines, thus resulting in better findability, increased & higher quality organic search traffic. Out of the box Drupal is well optimized, however there are many contributed modules and configuration best practices that improve SEO of Drupal Sites. SEO is a value added service that vendors & consultant can sell during the development phase of a project, or after launch.

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This is an overview session that touches onto all kinds of new developments in the wide field of web design. This talk is mainly focussed on client side technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and outlines the news of the past months. If you have not been following the buzz lately, this is a good session to get you up to speed.

We'll discuss ways to develop reusable and flexible JavaScript components by leveraging JavaScript's full potential and using Drupal's lightweight JavaScript frameworks. We'll look at several JavaScript components and see how they were implemented and how they interact with each other.

Drupal 7 has seen several changes designed to improve performance. These include the code registry, multiple loading of first class objects and several upcoming patches including refactored pluggable subsystems.

This talk will examine changes already in Drupal 7 and those on the horizon with a focus on database and code weight optimizations.