Mercury Editor is an open source solution built on contributed Drupal modules that combines drag-and-drop editing, Drupal core's layout API, and the Paragraphs module to provide an accessible, easy-to-use authoring experience. Designed to empower marketing and editorial teams everywhere, Mercury Editor offers a WYSIWYG interface for publishing highly visual, long-form content.
How successful was your last big project? Chances are, it was a little bit off (hopefully just a little). If we take a look at dozens of projects, some patterns start to emerge. There are some common traps and habits that we all fall into, whether you’re a backend engineer, a CTO, a project manager, or anything in between. In this session, we’ll explore some common obstacles that technology teams encounter, such as:
In the dynamic landscape of decentralized organizations, effective collaboration and communication are paramount. However, establishing seamless channels between multiple teams can be a significant challenge. Coordinating meetings with all stakeholders often proves difficult, leading to undocumented decisions and information gaps for those unable to attend. Additionally, the format of meetings may not always be conducive to comprehensive understanding and thoughtful analysis.
Enter the Request For Comments (RFC) process.
Drupal's Typed Data API remains a mystery for many. But to truly understand how entity data is modeled, we need to get familiar with it. In this session, we’ll break it down—so buckle up, and let's finally make sense of it!
By the end of this session, you'll know why the Typed Data API is so important, when it was introduced, how it works, and where you can use it.
What’s in store?
Stanford Web Leaders is a community of practice for website and web team managers across campus to collaborate and share best practices. This community and our monthly meetings date back to the early 2000s and have been fully virtual since 2020.
Join our roundtable to learn more about this group and to share your thoughts on what trends and challenges are facing our organizations, and brainstorm how we can support each other with a thriving and open community of digital professionals.
Mercury Editor is a suite of Drupal modules that combine drag-and-drop editing, Drupal core's layout API, and the Paragraphs module to provide an accessible, easy-to-use authoring experience. Designed to empower marketing and editorial teams everywhere, Layout Paragraphs offers a WYSIWYG interface for publishing highly visual, long-form content.
In this session, we'll show how we’ve used Mercury Editor to empower marketing and editorial teams to build beautiful landing pages in Drupal.
Backdrop CMS famously forked from Drupal after version 7, but there is still an ongoing, informal conversation between the projects, and many developers that use Backdrop also have projects that use Drupal.
PHP is a powerful, diverse, and growing language, and has come a long, long way in 29 years. There are frameworks for everything. From testing, deployment, building GUIs and TUIs, running daemons, extension building, and more. If you can't find something for your use, throw a little C at it.
I will share a brief past, present and future of PHP and show why PHP is my favorite language to work with. I'll look at some interesting projects and alternative uses of PHP.
“Back in the day” web development was all about Projects. Project Managers met with clients to gather requirements and then worked with designers and developers to meet those requirements within a set amount of time.
In today’s world, more people are working on web “Product” or “Platform” teams where they are serving the needs of both site editors and site visitors while running continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment processes.
