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These are my notes from Andrew Root's talk at DrupalCamp LA. Thanks to Andrew for the great talk.

These are my notes from the talk Day To Day Site Administration Made Easy at DrupalCamp LA 2010.

Recommended Modules:

Frank Febbraro is the CTO of Phase2 and the architect of the transition of whitehouse.gov to Drupal. He gave this talk at DrupalCon San Francisco.

Due to NDAs I can't go into great detail about the things I'm presenting, but I'm happy to be able to share what I can with you guys.

Overview

Whitehouse.gov scales to lots and lots of page views. Scaling means more than adding servers and increasing page views, it means planning and processes, and growing and maturing the process of delivery. We'll be talking about infrastructure, but other stuff as well.

iPhone, Drupal and Web Services by Kyle Browning, Senior Engineer at WorkHabit. He's been working with Drupal since version 5, and doing work with the iPhone for the last year.

Drupal really needs an entry point into the iPhone market, so our users can utilize the information that Drupal provides on the go. Drupal needs an easy path to share information through the iPhone, Cocoa, the iPad and all that. I want to bridge the gap between Drupal and the iPhone.

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

Nick Lewis gave this talk about what's happening in Drupal's Design and Architecture at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010. You can find him on Twitter at nicklewisatx

The Kitten Methodology

When I first encountered Drupal, it was a weird box that I didn't really understand, and I just pawed at it for a little while. Now I'm a Drupal expert, and I got here by just playing around with Drupal like this.

Spy on the natives

• Understand the Drupal Culture. Get on IRC and pay attention to what the contributors are saying.

Narayan Newton is the lead sysadmin of Drupal.org. He gave a talk called The Future of MySQL at DrupalCon 2010 San Francisco. My notes are below.

What Just Happened?

For a long time, MySQL was a stable project to track. There was one place to get it, there was one vendor, there were no really popular patch sets, and the biggest question was what minor version to run.

It changed about a year ago, when things started getting interesting.

What led to this?

There are lots of theories, here's a few:

• Long release cycles

This is a loose transcript of a talk given by Jon Clark of the Aten Design Group at DrupalCon 2010 San Francisco.

Process is a natural part of our work on the web. A pro-client process is a powerfully persuasive tool to pitch your process.

Aten Design Group has an iterative, client-focused process.

Amazon Web Services

This talk was given by Barry Jaspan, Senior architect at Acquia, Inc. It addresses how to get a non-trivial Drupal site set up on Amazon Web Services, and how Acquia manages their AWS environment.

Benefits of AWS

• Outsourced
• high end infrastructure
• geographic distribution
• lower up front costs
• fast provisioning and elasticity

This Talk is about the Challenges

I'm not going to talk about the usual hosting stuff, just the unique things about

This talk was given by Liza Kindred of Lullabot. You can find her on twitter as LizaK.

About Liza

Liza comes from fashion, worked in the fashion industry for ten years and owned a retail boutique, and produced a lot of fashion shows. She's also done art events and sat on boards in the art world. Now she's Lullabot employee number 3! She's obsessed with open business models, which is how she got into Lullabot.

About Lullabot

I moderated a panel at Drupalcon 2010 San Francisco. The panel was called Monetizing Drupal, and it was Monday from 3pm to 4pm in 306 Trellon.

The Topic

We're going to touch on how to move from a pure Drupal consultancy to offering products and services.

The Panelists

• Chris Shattuck of Build A Module
• Stephanie Pakrul of Top Notch Themes
• Michael Anello of DrupalEasy
• Salim Lakhani of WebEnabled

The Summary