Tim Millwood talks a bit about Drupal 7 and his current gig as a Drupal Developer with Mark Boulton Design. Tim talks a bit about his Drupalcon experience including the jQuery presentation by Dmitri Gaskin and how he uses his twitter account there.

Tim is also currently writing a book called "Professional Drupal Module development"

Drupal 5 core maintainer Neil Drumm talks about some of the infrastructure modules that he helps maintain like the API module that runs api.drupal.org, and also the upcoming Dashboard module, which is a part of the prototype mock-ups for the Drupal.org redesign. Neil is currently decoupling the dashboard functionality out of the suite of Drupal.org-specific modules.

Some of the Drupalcon presentations that Neil mentions are:

• Handling Aysnchronous Data With Drupal: Techniques for Secure, Scalable and Stable AJAX/AHAH
• Protect your site from hackers: Introduction to Security
• Hacker-proof your code: Advanced Drupal Security

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Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg talks about the Embedded Media Field as well as the process of co-maintaining it. He talks about the Drupal Video Planet as a demo site for the emfield module in combination with the Feed API & Feed Element Mapper.

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Steve Rude talks about the Cache Router module, which is an engine to be able to combine and swap in and out different caching techniques like: APC, Database caching, eAccelerator, File caching, Memcache and XCache.

Some performance tuning tools mentioned are: Navicat, MySQL Top, xdebug, devel module, Firebug and YSlow

For more information on Drupal caching, check out John VanDyk's Drupalcon presentation Inside Drupal Caching: From Static Variables to Memcache

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