1. Building stories and building trust.
Web application development
with Drupal 7
(case study)
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2. $whoami
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3. $whoami
Valentin Bora
Co-founder & CTO
Building stories and building trust.
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4. Ready for a short video?
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5. SimplySocial - the product
The video is not publicly available
yet

6. The company - founding team
Tyler Jeroen Valentin
Alaskan, CEO Dutch, COO Romanian, CTO
Strategy, Marketing, People, Execution, Software architect,
Sales Business-IT Development lead
translation
Based in Alaska, USA Development in Romania
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7. The company - team
1 sales person
3 creative/marketing
9 work on software
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8. The company - team
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9. The company - team
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10. We’re still hiring developers
contact@gosimplysocial.com
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11. High level architecture diagram
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12. Scheduling and publishing content
Drupal Python
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13. Drupal’s role
Client facing interface
The SimplySocial API
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14. Why Drupal?
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15. User system
Authentication
Authorization
Security
Roles
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16. Admin interface
Good enough
Easy to extend
Lots of useful defaults
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17. Entities
Act as models
Helpful CRUD actions
Good integration with Views, Rules
and other modules
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18. Views
Quick to setup basic data tables
Out of the box pagination, ajax
Happy prototyping
Can be themed
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20. Modules
We have around 50 custom modules
~ 80k lines of custom code
Easily extendable
Nice APIs
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21. Theming
1 default theme
1 mobile theme
Seven for administration
Can be overridden, usually easily
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22. Drupal / Python / CLI
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23. Workers?
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24. The queue server
Beanstalkd
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26. Long-running workers (SupervisorD)
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27. Sentry
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28. Sentry
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29. Working as
a team
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30. GitHub
1. Feature branches
2. Pull requests
3. Code review
4. Issue tracking
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31. Campfire
1. GitHub room
2. Dev room
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32. T-shirt give-away
ask me
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33. Questions, ask now!
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34. Thanks!
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