Moshe Weitzman talks about the new Page rendering flow and hook_page_alter() functionality in Drupal 7, which allows a more control over what appears on each page load. This will enable one-off customizations to the page loads in a much easier way. He talks about how Drupal 7 themes can now implement alter hooks, and how the page render arrays use the same approach as forms and nodes. W...
John Albin Wilkins (aka JohnAlbin) talks about some of the new extensions to the theming system that are new in Drupal 7 including render elements, hook_page_alter(), show, hide...
Emma Jane Hobgin (aka emmajane) gives an overview of her DrupalCon San Francisco presentation on PHP for Designers. She talks about the importance of pattern recognition and forensic coding, some helpful modules such as Devel Themer as well as some of the basics of Drupal theming with tpl.php...
Sean Robertson (aka seanr) of NGP Software talks about some of the political sites that he's worked on such as Barney Frank, John Conyers, and Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. He talks about some of the automation processes that...
Ken Rickard (aka agentrickard) talks about some of the improvements to the node access system in Drupal 7. He mentions that all six of the action items that came out of a brainstorming session from at Node Access Birds of a Feather session from DrupalCon Szeged. Rickard talks abo...
Konstantin Käfer (aka kkafer) talks about the Form API States System for Drupal 7. The states system allows you to create dependencies between form elements so that you can for example make a textbox disappear when a checkbox is checked. The Examples for Developers module...
Alex Bronstein (aka effulgentsia) talks about how he got working with Drupal 7 and the Form API through his work on the flexifield module. He's also listed as the co-maintainer of the AJAX, Form, Render, and Theme systems for Drupal 7. Bronstein also talks about some of the work that he has...
Katherine Bailey (aka katbailey) gives a brief overview of the new Ajax framework in Drupal 7. As maintainer of the Quick Tabs module, she got interested in all of the various JavaScript-related functionality in Drupal. For more detailed information on the new Ajax framework, then consider checking out the...
Chris Fassnacht (aka sociotech) talks about the evolution of Top Notch Themes and Fusion Drupal Themes. He focuses on some of the target market and intentions that drives their premium theme service. He also talks a bit about some of the backend infrastructure that they're using with the Project module &...
LA Drupal User Group organizer Chris Charlton talks about some of the plug-ins that he's written for Adobe's Dreamweaver as well as configuration settings for the Eclipse IDE. These third-party plug-ins are intended to help streamline the theming workflow with tools that a lot of designers are already familiar with, as well as help set up some configuration settin...