Drupal Camp Northern Lights (Part 3)
Drupal Camp Northern Lights (Part 3)
12.04.2017
Michael Lenahan
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This has, for reasons we are not quite sure of, ended up being a three-part blog post.
Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.
So, where we left off was at the tomato farm, where it felt like being in a future farm in outer space.
But the tomato farm is not only that. It is a pony (sorry, "Icelandic horse") farm as well!
On our way back to Reykjavik that evening, we were told "we have to hurry because a big storm is on its way".
When we woke up the next day, Reykjavik had experienced the biggest snow fall in 80 years, and all roads were closed.
There are some beautiful pictures of this here: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/icelands-capital-reykjav-k-s…
None of this extraordinary weather deterred the incredible team who organized this event.
The Drupal camp at Drupal Camp Northern Lights
The amount of effort that went in to making sure we had a great time was truly amazing, and this was carried over into the sessions as well.
Sprint room
Oftentimes, I don't go into the sprint room at Drupal camps, you can have the feeling that you are interrupting something very important that you don't understand.
This time I thought "no, I'm among friends now" so I ventured in to the sprint room, and sheepishly explained that I'm new and looking for something to work on.
Enzo was there, and he helped me get started on a Drupal Console issue.
Here's how you get started:
https://gist.github.com/jmolivas/97bbd07f328217be3564a434c5bd2618
And here is the issue I fixed a few weeks after coming back. I feel so proud!
https://github.com/hechoendrupal/drupal-console/issues/3197
Thanks, Enzo!
Drupal Twig - Mauricio Dinarte
This session was full of insider tips on how to get the most out twig, with lots of entertaining examples out of Drupal core.
You can see the slides here:
Gitpal.org - real version control of content - Rouven Volk
Rouven explained an interesting way of managing content using a git repository. We're used to having code in git, but there are times when the content needs to be equally trackable.
Rouven's approach is to use Drupal's content revisioning system together with git-wrapper to write all content revisions as commits into a git repository.
That means you can track changes to your content like this:
If you want to get involved with this, join us and work on it at https://drupal.slack.com/messages/gitpal
The Continuing Saga of Layouts in Drupal 8 - Tim Plunkett
Despite being a "certified" front-end developer I'm not really a front-end developer at all.
For this reason I'm very supportive of efforts to make Drupal front-end work less insane.
I was surprised and happy to discover that Tim's talk on Layouts was easy to understand, I even asked a question related to the way panels can be used without a UI.
I think all of this must have had something to do with the magic of Iceland, and this particular Drupal camp, where the entire atmosphere was so friendly that you felt you could chat with anyone about anything.
The Flexibility of Drupal 8 - Michael Miles (mikemiles86)
Mike Miles is a very entertaining and fun speaker to listen to. His talk showed 8 different ways to do a simple change in Drupal.
Slides and link to the code are here: https://mikemiles86.github.io/dnlights-drupal-flex
Or just go and watch the video already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UV1-NfSR1E
Wrapping up
All that's left to say is thank you, thank you, thank you.
To the organizers https://www.drupal.org/u/baddysonja and https://www.drupal.org/u/drupalviking and all the others who I haven't named here.
As you said, Baddy: this was the coolest Drupal camp ever and an experience I think all of us will always remember.
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