Development Presentations December 2011

This is the plan for the Developer presentations that will take place at Moodle HQ on December 23rd, 2011.

There will be three sessions, each with an initial didactic presentation followed by practical activities. The presentations will be shared via a Google Hangout.

After the day we can collect together artefacts produced during the day here for future reference.

Schedule

Time	Session	Presenter
9:30am	HTML5 for PHP developers	Rajesh Taneja
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Drupal for Christmas	Marina Glancy
2:30pm	Multiple DB development environment setup	Aparup Banerjee
4:00pm	Home for Christmas...

HTML5 for PHP developers

1. Why HTML5?
2. What's new in HTML5
3. Some examples on using HTML5
4. How PHP developers can use it.
5. Brainstorming, on how it can be used in Moodle.

This will be followed by a practical exercise involving HTML5.

Drupal for Christmas

1. The basic concepts of drupal
2. Some interesting implementations that are different from moodle

Hands-on: Write a simple module

Multiple DB development environment setup

1. Reasons for having multiple DB setups
2. General config tips for optimising DB related development
3. Eloy's GIT friendly config & configlib

This will be followed by a workshop involving:

1. Get copy of config & configlib
2. Setup a Moodle instance
3. Recap & shortcomings