Presentation by Bram Goffinghs, explaining all there is to know about Drupal 8.

1. PRESENTS

2. DRUPAL 8
SOME FANCY BOTTOM LINE

3. ABOUT ME…

4. AGENDA
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HISTORY
IMPROVEMENTS
NEW FEATURES
DRUPAL 8 IS A MODERN CMS
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

5. DRUPAL
HAS A
HISTORY

6. DRUPAL 1.0
(15 JAN 2001)

7. DRUPAL 1.0
4092
(15 JAN 2001)

8. DRUPAL 8.X
(MID 2013)

9. DRUPAL 8.X
491 794
(MID 2013)

11. REASONS?

12. DRIES
HAS A DREAM

13. ELIMINATE
MIDDLEMAN

14. ELIMINATE
DEVELOPER

15. EACH
RELEASE HAS
MORE POWER

16. ALWAYS USE
STATE OF THE
ART
TECHNOLOGY

17. MOVE
CONTRIB TO
CORE

18. CORE IS
MORE
SECURE

19. CORE HAS
FULL TEST
COVERAGE

20. CORE IS
BETTER
MAINTAINED

21. MOVE VIEWS
TO CORE

22. VIEWS IS THE
MOST INSTALLED
CONTRIB
MODULE

23. JANUARY 2011
DRUPAL 7

24. JANUARY 2011
DRUPAL 7
JULY 2011

25. JANUARY 2011
DRUPAL 7
JULY 2011
FEBRUARY 2012

26. JUNE 17 2011
VIEWS RC 1
JANUARY 2011
DRUPAL 7
JULY 2011
FEBRUARY 2012

27. FASTER
ADOPTION RATE

28. FANTASTIC
BATTLE TESTER

30. MOBILE
15% OF ALL INTERNET USAGE
COMES FROM A MOBILE PHONE.
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-2013-mobile-growth-statistics/

31. HTML5 is the
next step in HTML

32. HTML5 helps SEO
<article>
<section>
<header>
<footer>

33. HTML5 helps mobile
<<telephone>

34. HTML5 helps mobile
<<email>

35. HTML5 helps mobile
<<number>

36. RESPONSIVE WEB
DESIGN is a web design
approach aimed at
crafting sites to provide
an OPTIMAL VIEWING
EXPERIENCE

40. DRUPAL 8 is designed to
be MOBILE FIRST
without harming the
desktop experience

41. MULTILINGUAL
WONDERLAND

42. DRUPAL 8
SUPPORTS
MULTIPLE
LANGUAGES
OUT OF THE BOX

43. TAKES LESS TIME
TO BUILD A NEW
MULTILINGUAL
WEBSITE

44. WHEN DRUPAL 8
GETS RELEASED
THERE WILL BE A
STABLE AND
USABLE SOLUTION

45. THIS MEANS
LESS BUGS
AND
LOWER COSTS

47. TRANSLATIONS
ARE IMPORTED
AUTOMATICALLY

48. TRANSLATION
SETTINGS ARE
FINE GRAINED

50. THE TRANSLATION
INTERFACE IS
DRASTICALLY
IMPROVED

52. IT IS EVEN
POSSIBLE TO
TRANSLATE THE
SITE SLOGAN!

53. DRUPAL 8
can be a
CENTRAL CONTENT HUB

54. Data can be FETCHED in a
restful way from a standard
drupal 8 installation

55. OTHER (drupal) SITES and
APPLICATIONS can use the
data inserted into the drupal
platform WITHOUT EXTRA
EFFORT

56. THE CONNECTION
between the two parties can
be SECURED in various
ways

57. Data can be PUSHED to a
drupal 8 site.

58. Drupal can be used as a
VIEW on top of your central
content repository

59. DRUPAL 8 is an API

60. IMPROVED
WEBMASTER
EXPERIENCE

61. IMPROVED
CONTENT EDIT
SCREENS BASED
ON USABILITY
TESTS

63. A BUILD IN
WYSIWYG
EDITOR

65. SMART COPY
PASTE FILTER
ADDED

66. BUILD IN
SECURITY LAYER

69. DRUPAL 8
HAS AN
INLINE EDITOR

70. IDEAL FOR
SMALL
ADJUSTMENTS

77. TOUR
MODULE

81. WEBMASTER CAN
BUILD OWN
INTERACTIVE
TUTORIAL

82. LIMITED WEB
KNOWLEDGE
REQUIRED

83. TOURS WILL BE
TRANSLATABLE

84. Improved deploy and
maintenance experience

85. New FILE BASED
configuration system

86. CONTENT gets stored in
the DATABASE

87. CONFIGURATION gets
stored in FILES with a
HUMAN READABLE syntax

88. EASIER DEPLOYMENT

89. LESS DANGEROUS

90. CHEAPER

91. DRUPAL 8
IS A
MODERN CMS

92. OPTMIZED FOR
SEARCH
ENGINES

93. USING
SCHEMA.ORG
SYNTAX

95. REBUILD ON TOP OF
SYMFONY 2

96. SET OF COMPONENTS
CONTAINING BASE
FEATURES

97. WRITTEN IN AN
OBJECT ORIENTED
WAY

98. EASY TO EXTEND OR
REPLACE FEATURES

99. GAINS FOR DRUPAL?

100. LESS CODE
TO MAINTAIN

101. SECURITY++

102. SOME OF THE NEW
FEATURES WEREN’T
POSSIBLE WITHOUT
SYMFONY

103. EXPAND THE
DEVELOPER POOL

104. MAKE USE OF
JQUERY 2.0

105. SMALLER IN SIZE
AND FASTER

106. MADE FOR
MODERN BROWSERS

107. IE 8

108. IE 8

109. NO WORRIES 
WE CAN MAKE IT
WORK ON THE
FRONTEND

110. AND LOTS OF OTHER
EXTERNAL TOOLS…

111. BACKBONE.JS
GUZZLE
ZEND FEED
CREATE.JS
DOCTRINE
GLIPH
PHPUNIT
COMPOSER
EASYRDF

112. Things you should know

113. No upgrade path will be
provided

114. A migration tool is being
build

115. Porting content between
different versions will be
possible

116. Makes migrating content
from drupal 6 to drupal 8
sites possible

117. NASCOM

118. ~15.000

119. 235 PATCHES (1.6%)

120. Nascom has a team of
DRUPAL 8 EXPERTS

121. We promise to have a
WORKING drupal 8
version of all the modules
we maintain.

122. Display Suite
Steroids
Fullcalendar
Performance
Nice dash
Search api live results
Commerce direct buy
Production check
Inline form errors
Attach exisiting fields
Menu clone
Record feature
File maintenance
Context code
Smartqueue language
Hook hunter

123. DISPLAY SUITE is one of
the most popular modules
and installed on every
system we build.

124. DISPLAY SUITE is
maintained by the drupal
team @nascom.

125. DISPLAY SUITE is almost
completely ported to
drupal 8!

126. WE are ready to built
YOUR drupal 8 projects

127. THANKS!
NASCOM GENK (HQ)
C-MINE 1 BUS 13
EVENCE COPPÉELAAN 91
3600 GENK
BELGIUM
PHONE +32 89 20 15 00
FAX +32 89 20 15 01
INFO@NASCOM.BE

128. TEST IT!
http://simplytest.me/project/drupal/8.x
(launch sandbox)