See You at NYC Camp from July 16-19!

The Forum One team is thrilled to be heading to the United Nations for this year’s NYC Camp. We’re looking forward to seeing both new and familiar faces, and sharing some of the newest things the team’s been working on in terms of data visualization, Drupal development, and automation.

Here is a look at the sessions we’ll be leading:

Building Realtime Applications with Drupal and Node.js

Friday, July 17th, 11:00am – 11:45am (Location: Conference Room 11)

Call it the “appification” of the web. Users’ expectations are being pushed in the direction of being able to interact with sites and content not by clicking a link or refreshing the page but by having those changes come directly to them. We’ll be using Drupal, AngularJS and Sails.js to demonstrate the capabilities of both Javascript and Node to build interactive applications and synchronize with Drupal through the REST interface to serve as the data repository.

Automating Deployments

Saturday, July 18th, 9:00am – 9:45am (Location: Conference Room 8)

That moment when new code makes it way out into the world is the most fragile part of the process. We take for granted all the steps that need to happen to make sure it goes correctly. In this session we’ll be demonstrating technologies to turn deployments from a nail biting experience into a simple “one click and done.” You’ll see the power of Jenkins to manage the continuous integration process and Capistrano to deploy changes and how to drive it all from changes in your git repository.

The Drupal 8 Decision: Budgets, Bosses, and Bul@#$% Standing Between You and the Next World-Class CMS

Saturday, July 18th,  3:30pm – 4:15pm (Location: Conference Room C)

Drupal 8 is coming. When we reach “Issue Queue Zero,” your business or organization needs a sensible strategy for upgrading your sites to D8. There are variety of questions to consider including available talent, budgets, goals, and aspirations. This session will be of particular interest to executives, business owners, nonprofit professionals, communications staff, and site managers who face this increasingly pressing decision regarding D8.

D3 Data Visualization: Because your data should tell a story

Saturday, July 18th, 3:30pm – 4:15pm (Location: Conference Room 12)

There’s no escaping the fact that data visualization is hot right now. Everyone wants to tell their data’s story visually, whether it be through a map, chart, or more detailed presentation. The difficulty is there are so many different tools that solve this, each one with their own benefits and limitations. We feel D3.js is the most awesome tool for handling this task — which is the approach we’ve used for the sites like the Nation’s Report Card, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, GlobalChange, and others.

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig!

Sunday, July 19th, 9:00am to 3:00pm

Prepare yourself with the skills you’ll need to hit the ground running as a Drupal 8 themer. This training will be a hands-on, an interactive workshop where we will build a Drupal 8 theme from the ground up using Drupal 8’s new template engine, Twig. This workshop is intended for Drupal themers and front-end developers. Knowing the basics of git will be helpful but is not necessary. No PHP knowledge is necessary but a laptop is required. (Note: Twig is being improved in Drupal 8 Core @ http://drupaltwig.org/ and you are all welcome to join in and help make Drupal 8 theming awesome!)