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Notes Higher Ed Summit BOF

Notes from Custom Development BOF

November 2, 2012 Higher Ed Summit, BAD Camp 2012, San Francisco

Participants

Topics

Alex

Evolving Web worked on several projects for McGill University.

  • Course Calendar: pull in data from documentum + banner oracle dump, custom solr search UI.
  • Admissions portal: ctools-wizard based multistep form, entity api, form api, custom widgets, custom validation. Learned difference between #process and #after_build.

Jason

  • Built several Profile2 extensions, dealing with security and privacy. Admin defines fieldsets, while end-user selects privacy for each fieldset.
  • Flag 3.x extension that leveraged fieldable flags, allowed building simple cart workflow using Flag.
  • Open Sourcery recent built a course "Drupal Archeology" (aka Drupal Forensics)

Adam

  • Built own baby shopping cart for ordering software licenses.
  • Maintainans Views Slideshow; refactored: separate submodules for widgets (pager/counter) and js libraries (eg jquery cycle)
  • Hopes to make a "Slideshow API" module, further abstracted, perhaps unify with Field Slideshow / display mode

Scott

  • Teaches a Drupal site-building class to Q-college students
  • Building up to having them make their own module
  • Plans to steal portfolio code from one of students ;)
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