DrupalCon 2011 Recap, part 3 of 3

Last week, August Ash sent three of our Minneapolis Drupal developers to Chicago to be part of DrupalCon 2011. Following is the third part of our three-summary series. Whether you wanted to be there and couldn't, or you're considering Drupal for your own site and are curious to know how we stay razor-sharp in our knowledge of this CMS platform, we hope these round-ups over the past week have been insightful.

• On Day 3, Thursday, the morning started off with a Keynote by Jared Spool, a renewed user interface designer. It was interesting to look at what is considered bad and good user interfaces and what the problems you are trying to solve actual are.
• Many more geeky bits were gleaned on the last day of sessions. An experienced designer from Denmark showed off some of his tricks for using Drupal while other developers talked about the new Render API in Drupal 7 which allows for easier tweaking of data before it's output to the user's browser.
• Another presenter compared the world of Drupal's modules and components to nature's ecosystems, while another presenter talked about how to write code that is as fast as possible.
• Later, another panel talked about the topic of performance by giving concrete examples of what they've done for their high-end website, and more was explained regarding tips on how to build user interfaces within Drupal.
• Friday wrapped up DrupalCon with what's called a "Code Sprint." The conference was mostly over but many developers stuck around to work on developing the open source code of Drupal further.

Throughout the conference, the most intelligent minds within Drupal's community were thinking about and discussing the future of Drupal, a conversation that continues on year-round in different ways.

If you're interested in learning more about the advantages of having a site built on Drupal, let us know. We're offering a free 1-hour site assessment where we can explain what it takes to have a site built on a solid CMS (content management system), whether it's Drupal, Magento, WordPress, or a different platform appropriate to your site's goals.