The presentation is about why Drupal is a good choice as a framework to build your next big product / service idea if you are a startup. The presentation covers the reasons and also introduces concepts in Drupal that will allow a startup to get their web application up and running without writing a line of code. Then again the idea is to never write a line of code but also about picking a platform where you can get started fast and then build and customize later.

1. DRUPAL as a
Rapid Application
Development
Framework for Startups
Anoop John
Chief Technology Officer
www.zyxware.com

2. Contents
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What a startup would look for when building web
applications?
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What is Drupal?
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Why Drupal is a good fit for startups?
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Basic Drupal concepts
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Aspects of a web application
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Managing Layout in Drupal
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Managing Content / Data in Drupal
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Presentation of Content
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Roles & Permissions

3. Contents (contd...)
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Workflows around Content
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Rules & Business Logic
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Ecommerce & Payments
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Drupal Commons – OOTB Social Site
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Other cool Drupal features
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Example
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Key modules to remember
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About Zyxware
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Questions

4. What a startup would look for when
building web applications?
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Easy to learn system & technology
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Ability to leverage on existing systems
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Not have to re-invent the wheel
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Quickly try out ideas
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Easily build proof of concepts
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Take to market fast
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Ability to customize easily
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Ability to build and scale
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Strong platform for future growth

5. What is Drupal?
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Drupal is a Content Management System
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Built on PHP, MySQL, HTML, JS, CSS
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Allows collection, presentation
& management of structured information
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Allows building websites
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Allows building dynamic web applications
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API to build and extend the application
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Extensible, Modular, Pluggable, Scalable
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Thousands of modules to extend the capabilities without
writing a line of code
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Drupal is more than a Content Management System. It is a
Rapid Application Development Framework

6. Why Drupal is a good fit for startups
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Fully functional website out of the box
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Fully functional CMS out of the box
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More than 10000 modules to extend
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Ability to build applications with workflows, permissions, rules
without writing a line of code
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Out of the box CRUD system for complex data collection,
presentation and management
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Control over layout without coding
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Drupal distributions OOTB systems
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Strong API for future extension
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Stable and secure platform

7. Basic Drupal concepts
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Entity & Node
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Content Types
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Modules – core & contrib
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Themes
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Blocks & Menus
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Roles and Permissions
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Administration
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Hooks & Callbacks
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Form API

8. Aspects of a web application
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Structure of layout
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Collection of structured information
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Presentation of information
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Roles and Permissions
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Workflow related to collected information
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Business Logic

9. Managing Layout in Drupal
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Structure of layout
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Themes
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Regions
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Block System
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Custom HTML
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Automatically generated content
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Panels
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Panes
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Landing pages
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Contexts

10. Managing Content / Data in Drupal
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Entity
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Node
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Content Types
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Fields
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Edit forms
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Taxonomy
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Taxonomy listing
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Webforms – custom surveys

11. Presentation of Content
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Data abstraction with Views
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Views displays
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Pages, Blocks, Feeds, Panes
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Views theming
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Export – CSV, XML

12. Roles and Permissions
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Access Control at interface level
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Access Control at code level
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Users
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Roles
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Permissions

13. Workflows around Content
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Views & dashboards
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Roles & Permissions in views
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Nodequeues
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Flags
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Views bulk operations
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Workflow module
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Edit / View permissions

14. Rules and Business Logic
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Events & Triggers
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Context & Data
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Actions
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Send emails
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Redirect users
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Update content, set values
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Creating custom actions
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Exposing custom events

15. Ecommerce & Payments
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Drupal Commerce
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Ubercart
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Paypal
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CCAvenue
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Banking gateway integration

16. Drupal Commons – OOTB Social Site
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Supported by Acquia
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Social networking system
out of the box
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Integration with other social
networking systems
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Ability to extend using
modules / custom code

17. Other cool Drupal features
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Multisite & Individual Domains
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Aegir for deployments & PaaS
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Third party integration
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Import and Export of Data
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Services, XMLRPC, REST, JSON
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Backend for mobile application
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Mobile theming + regular theming

18. Example
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Roles – Admin, Speaker, Attendee
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Suggest Event – Event Content Type, Fields, Status
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Event – Status as not approved
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Event Schedule - View
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Approval Queue
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Blog
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Nodequeue – Home page
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My Events - Flag

19. Feeds Node
Context
VBO
Services
Views
Taxonomy
Nodequeue
Rules
Fields
Flag
Panels
Admin Menu Fivestar
Webform

20. Zyxware Technologies and Drupal
Zyxware is a leading contributor to Drupal from India and is one of only
six Featured Service Providers from India listed on drupal.org
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Over 40,000 websites use our modules and themes
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More than 30 contributed modules and themes
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Maintainer of Search404, a top 100 Drupal module
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Over 1000 commits at drupal.org
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Contributes all patches back to Drupal
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Our profile on drupal.org - http://drupal.org/user/222163
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Knowledge partnerships with Acquia, New Relic and Volacci

21. Free Software and Zyxware Technologies
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Freedom Walk, a 44 day walk by a team of
Free Software Evangelists across the length of
Kerala to promote Free Software
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Building RithuOS, an Operating System for Engineering
students with Free Software Engineering applications
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GNU/Linux Install Fests in Schools, Colleges and at Technopark.
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Local language (Malayalam) computing camps in colleges
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Building and Maintenance of Freedom Toaster, a Free Software
kiosk
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Conducting Free Software workshops and
lectures in colleges in Kerala

22. Contact Us
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Check us out at http://www.zyxware.com
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Mail us at drupal@zyxware.com
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Like us at http://www.facebook.com/zyxware
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Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/zyxware
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Connect with us at
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/zyxware-technologies
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Talk to us at +91-9495969446 between 9AM - 9PM IST
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Skype me at aj_zyxware