4. Who are you? Show of hands for: Never used Drupal `
5. Who are you? Show of hands for: Never used Drupal Work with Drupal `
6. Who are you? Show of hands for: Never used Drupal Work with Drupal Drupal Professional `
7. Who are you? Show of hands for: Never used Drupal Work with Drupal Drupal Professional My name is Dries `
8. Session Goals Cover the following topics: Drupal 7 Timeline New UI Design and Features Under The Hood `
9. Drupal 7 Timeline Planning started September 2007, development February 2008 Still not done, 13 critical issues as of this morning. Release will happen when all critical issues are resolved. So when really? `
10. Drupal 7 Timeline Soon. Really soon. 9-23-2010 Acquia commits 1 fulltime engineer to work on critical issues. 20 critical issues left 10-2-2010 13 critical issues left. 6 Business days… 7 critical issues knocked out? `
11. Drupal 7 Timeline Soon. Really soon. 9-23-2010 Acquia commits 1 fulltime engineer to work on critical issues. 20 critical issues left 10-2-2010 13 critical issues left. 6 Business days… 7 critical issues knocked out? Drupal 7 launches in two weeks `
12. Drupal 7 Timeline Soon. Really soon. 9-23-2010 Acquia commits 1 fulltime engineer to work on critical issues. 20 critical issues left 10-2-2010 13 critical issues left. 6 Business days… 7 critical issues knocked out? Drupal 7 launches in two weeks Kidding. `
15. Whats New? 70+ Contributed Modules are now in core Major UI overhaul New Admin UI New Admin Theme (Seven) `
16. Whats New? 70+ Contributed Modules are now in core Major UI overhaul New Admin UI New Admin Theme (Seven) Major engine overhaul Fields API Scalability Improvements RDF `
33. To Sum Up Almost completely new user experience across the UI. Improved functionality to make building your site and publishing content easier. `
34. Under The Hood Fields API Scalability Theme engine Simple Tests RDF `
35. Fields API Replaces CCK Fields on everything Full customization for content, users, taxonomy Pluggable Field API Draw field data from external sources Everything is now an entity Entities are made up of fields Fields are reusable across entities `
36. Fields API Could be its own presentation. Wait it is! Great presentation from Drupalcon Copenhagen http://www.slideshare.net/cyberswat/drupalcon-cph `
37. Scalability “Drupal 7 is also the most scalable release to date, with features such as built-in proxy server support, advanced caching techniques, and Content Delivery Network support for static files.” `
38. Content Delivery Networks Content is deliverable via the closest possible network. Improves page loading times `
39. Database Replication Support Database Replication Copy of your main database distributed to additional database servers Time consuming queries can then be relegated to your replicated database, allowing the main server to continue to serve requests quickly `
40. Theme Engine Improvements 42 .tpl files that can be overriden Theme control all the way down to the field level. Field.tpl.php RDF integration at the theme level Requires additional markup and theme work `
41. Simple Tests Simple Test PHP library Built into Drupal 7 as the Testing Module Allows Automated Testing Improve quality Learning curve for writing tests `
42. RDF Resource Description Framework Machine readable metadata about your content Describes Drupal entities and their relationships Built in to D7 Core More info: http://groups.drupal.org/node/22231 `
43. Crucial Thanks A lot of the material in this presentation comes from other excellent Drupal 7 presentations. Thanks to: Laura Scott http://www.slideshare.net/pingv/grok-drupal-7-theming Davy Van Den Bremt http://www.slideshare.net/davyvdb/drupal-7-whats-new-from-an-enduser-perspective Acquia for their Drupal 7 Webinars `
44. Questions Slides and video will be up on http://drupalcampatlanta.com/sessions/drupal-7-overviewat some point. . `
