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A Method for Getting Early Estimates Right

A Method For Getting Early Estimates Right
Jakob Persson
Co-founder of Node One

Early Estimating

A method that uses your prior experience when making early estimates. By doing so, you can make estimates accurately and more effectively, not just hunches or intuition. Estimating is like taking a blurry picture and trying to figure out what's in it. What you find may surprise you!

What is an Early Estimate?

"Estimation is the calculated approximiation of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete or uncertain." -Wikipedia

Varnish HTTP Cache

Varnish HTTP Cache
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk@FreeBSD.org

Content production is nothing new. The basic roles involved have not changed.

Typography, Multimedia, CMS and Production

Content Creation needs diverse input methods:

  • Text editors, Image scaling/cropping, Fileimport filters, Feeds...
  • Flexible Layout/Typography Tools (WYSIWYG, semantic markup, CSS)
  • Content cross referencing ("Other articles about paris hilton")
  • Composition rules can be complex: ("No airline ads if "crash" present in the headline.)

Drupal Security for Coders and Themers

Use These Resources

  • drupalsecurityreport.org - full white paper that discusses security for Drupal; a good resource if you are a project manager
  • drupal.org/writing-secure-code
  • drupal.org/security/secure-configuration
  • crackingdrupal.com - great book, by greggles, webchick says its the first book about drupal that she's going to buy
    heine.familiedeelstra.com
  • drupal.org/project/coder - does static analysis of your code and can show you problems like SQL injection, but it doesn't catch everything.

HTML 5 and Drupal Themeing

These are my notes from a talk at DrupalCamp LA 2010 given by Scott Vandehey of Metal Toad Media (@spaceninja on twitter.) I arrived a few minutes late, so the introduction is not included. Thanks to Scott for the great talk!

New Video Tag

This includes a Controls attribute, which says that when the video is shown, give the user a way to control it. It doesn't specify which controls or how they should look, which is up to the browser manufacturer.

Debugging Drupal

These are my notes from a talk given by Rich Yumul at DrupalCamp LA 2010. Rich is at Sage Tree Solutions.

Steps for Debugging

  • Reproduce the bug in the wild
  • Reproduce the bug in your development environment
  • Identify where it's failling
  • Identify why it's failing
  • SQUASH THAT BUG

Tools

  • Local dev/testing environment, MAMP or WAMP
  • IDE - Netbeans or Eclipse
  • XDebug/Zend Debugger
  • Firebug/Webkit/IE Developer Toolbar
  • tail -f, grep, less, vim, ssh

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