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One thing i always promise myself after have been giving talks at conferences is to make sure that the material is coming out quickly right after.
What im always ending up doing though is off course not that :(

So now after giving the same session in Chicago, Stockholm & Copenhagen, I thought it was appropriate to finally release my notes & slides for those of you who have asked for this. yes it changed name started out as "how to make awesomesauce" which was the working title, when it was preselected for the Chicago Drupalcon, I kept it so people didnt got confused ;)

Worse is that all my clever notes are usually lost in the wind (maybe thats for the best) This time though im happy that my sessions were recorded twice for your viewing pleasure.

DrupalCon Chicago 2011

It was a total blast, giving this presentation, it was probably the biggest room I have ever presented in - think it said there was room for 8-900 people. *Gasp!*,I used to be nervous speaking in the front of 20 people. But it warms my little front end loving heart that the DrupalCons is finally after years of fighting to get more than 2 session in the the accepting the Frontend developers & that we can actually draw a crowd (or did you all just came to see me curse at developers ?)

Those who didnt belive i actually gave the session in a damn godd looking suite. Those of you who dont belive this can check out this video where im interviewed later that day I know that somebody didnt really belive it ;)

The video I used for the Intro & Outtro is can be seen here in it full glory -cause everybody Drupals - Monster (remix) by A. Hughes & D. Stagg

IMG_1126 As a final note to Chicago: It was a total Blast! specially the detail of so many of us in the same Hotel kicked ass!
ooh and one of my hottest dreams ever happend, and I can claim that i made Microsoft say im sorry!

I can now go into the grave a happyman
... ooh wait theres still ie7

Next Stop Stockholm

Last month the good people in Sweden held their DrupalCampand even better they invited me to come and speak at the camp & who cant say no to goto stockholm? and the fact they did alot of flattering which I offcourse cant stand for : "and we will have some key Drupal people such as Todd Nienkerk, mortendk and Addison Berry." - yup im a sucker for that stuff. This also gave me an opportunity to dig into the old scandinavian sport: Taking pokes at each others -did a horrible reference to the Vasa ship that sometimes was how Drupal fels for us Frontend Developers

As soon as the Stockholm people are gonna release the video its gonne go online here, unless they have censored it ;)

Copenhagen - drupaldag

The session was cut down a bit and again given in copenhagen for the yearly informal meetup "DrupalDag" (drupalday) The fun thing here was the developers taking pokes at me during the session & actually pointing out a mistake in the slides Apparently it is possible to change a submit button from the theme layer in D6 - if you use the theme registery & create a new little function to change it ... Damn drupal is still sooooooo developer orientated, that making small logical changes is like stabbing a fork into you eye and puring lemon in it afterwards.

Sessions on Tour?

I used think that it sucked ass to redo a session again & again but when it takes me somewhere betweeen 40-60 hours to get a session ready & that the video recordings are sometimes very shitty, and might even made it to the Conferences websites afterwards (yup iknow the DrupalCon i was leading in Copenhagen had this issue big time, and it was outta our hands :( Then it suddenly makes sense, especially if you like me are on a mission from the frontend gods: Gather an army & clean out the crap from Drupal ;)

The Theme Like a Rockstar session is gonna be on its last show for the Drupal Design Camp in Berlin the 25+26 of June - its taken its turn & I am working on another session that will Rock you like a hurricane (yups) working title "Angry Themer" which will be more focused around theme selectors understanding, regions thinking & how to not be angry, now that you know how to manipulate drupal.

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