Stanford Web Leaders roundtable

Stanford Web Leaders is a community of practice for website and web team managers across campus to collaborate and share best practices. This community and our monthly meetings date back to the early 2000s and have been fully virtual since 2020. 

Join our roundtable to learn more about this group and to share your thoughts on what trends and challenges are facing our organizations, and brainstorm how we can support each other with a thriving and open community of digital professionals.

Mercury Editor: Easy-to-Use, Drag-and-Drop Content Editing for Drupal

Mercury Editor is a suite of Drupal modules that combine drag-and-drop editing, Drupal core's layout API, and the Paragraphs module to provide an accessible, easy-to-use authoring experience. Designed to empower marketing and editorial teams everywhere, Layout Paragraphs offers a WYSIWYG interface for publishing highly visual, long-form content. 

In this session, we'll show how we’ve used Mercury Editor to empower marketing and editorial teams to build beautiful landing pages in Drupal. 
 

That joke isn't funny anymore : From scripts to programs

PHP is a powerful, diverse, and growing language, and has come a long, long way in 29 years.  There are frameworks for everything.  From testing, deployment, building GUIs and TUIs, running daemons, extension building, and more.  If you can't find something for your use, throw a little C at it.

I will share a brief past, present and future of PHP and show why PHP is my favorite language to work with.  I'll look at some interesting projects and alternative uses of PHP.

It's camp! Opening remarks

Welcome to Stanford WebCamp! Each year we gather as a community to share ideas and knowledge about building websites and research tools.

Join us Thursday for Online for sessions on various topics and join us in-person at Stanford on Friday for a contribution sprint, Birds of Feather, followed by a gathering to celebrate the WebCamp community afterward.  

If you are remote and can't join us in person sessions will Online on Friday.

Q & A 

One Step at a Time: Demystifying the Batch API and Queue System

We continue to push the boundaries of what PHP was intended to do. Requesting a web page or clicking a button may trigger thousands of calculations, start a data migration, or kick off a long running process. So how do we avoid server timeouts and resource bottlenecks? By approaching this work one step at a time.

Join us for an introduction into Drupal's Batch API and Queue System, where we'll demystify these powerful tools and equip you with practical knowledge to conquer even the most daunting tasks. We will cover practical examples and discuss:

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