Sydney Australia Drupal Meetup - online

Next Meetup: Thursday January 17, 2019, 18:30 AEDT (GMT +1100)
Remote participation URL: https://meet.google.com/jcz-zrfj-rtk

Presentation 1: Drupal 8 page speed Optimisation - David Jeyachandran

Getting to a 1 second page load in Drupal

- Why performance matters?
- Performance vs scalability
- User experience or the numbers
- Measuring the baseline
- Why backend optimisation doesn’t matter
- Why backend optimisation does matter
- Rule 1 - Don’t load things you don’t need
- 3 optimisations that matter the most: Images, Fonts, Javascript
- Getting closer to instant - Prefetch and AJAX

Presentation 2: Composer and Drupal - Jay Friendly

As any developer working with Drupal 8 knows, working with Composer has become an integral part of working with Drupal. This can be daunting for those without previous experience working with command line, and can still be a confusing experience for those who do. This presentation will look at what Composer is, how Drupal site builders can use Composer to manage their Drupal projects, and how Drupal module developers can manage module and 3rd party library dependencies using Drupal.

Next Meetup: Thursday February 21, 18:30 AEDT

Remote participation URL: https://meet.google.com/jcz-zrfj-rtk

Presentation: What's new in Drupal 8.7.x - Jibran Ijaz

Drupal 8.7.0 is going to be released on May 1st instead of March 6th. The new minor version is coming after 8 months instead of 6. In this session, we'll discuss the new features and the latest code changes in Drupal 8.7.

Next Meetup: Thursday March 28, 2019, 18:30 AEDT (GMT +1100)
Remote participation URL: https://meet.google.com/jcz-zrfj-rtk

Presentation 1: Developing with vagrant and drupalvm, Arijit Dutta

In this talk we'll explore drupalvm out of the box followed by some easy customisation and a case study about how drupalvm can be used to standardise development across multiple websites. PS: There has been a constant debate whether to use docker or vagrant for development. That is a valid and extensive discussion but is not the focus of this talk :)

Presentation 2: Implementing NationalMap in GovCMS, Murray Woodman

The NationalMap project allows users to browse and select geo datasets which can be visualised on a map. Multiple datasets can be viewed at once and the map can be customised. This presentation will show how NatioanlMap can be incorporated into GovCMS without the need for any custom modules. Data, of differeing types will be mashed up from NationalMap, open data sources as well has cutom data which has been generated from a GeoJSON editor.