During the past few CharDUG (Charlotte Drupal User Group) meetings, I realized that we have a real need to help our existing Charlotte area Drupalers using Drupal 7 to move on to Drupal 8. There is also a huge opportunity to train those completely new to web development and Drupall. Out of some recent conversations, I have put together a training series that will span the next 6 months and become the focus for each of our monthly meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

The CharDUG Drupal 8 Training Series is a comprehensive set of training workshops to get attendees up to speed with all aspects of Drupal 8. Whether you are brand new to Drupal, focused on content management, a frontend or backend developer, or devops engineer, this series contains what you will need to utilize Drupal 8 to its potential.

I had a great time talking general and Drupal SEO at last night's CharDUG meetup! Just wanted to drop my slide deck here for reference. There are a lot of fantastic links in the deck.

Thanks to Mediacurrent for having a great culture for internal training. They invested in a large group of staff to go through the SEO Olympian program. I also want to thank the Mediacurrent Digital Strategy team for putting this training together. This training inspired me to dig more into SEO and put together this presentation and live demo of Drupal SEO modules.

I hope to present this talk again in the future.

I had the pleasure of attending DrupalCamp Atlanta 2016 in October. It was great to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and checkout some excellent presentations. I would like to thank the organizers and sponsors for making this event happen.

If you missed the event, I encourage you to checkout the session videos that were just posted. I also want to mention my presentation "The Story of an Insecure Module". I have included the abstract, video, and slide deck below. I am especially excited about the sandbox project Security Examples, which I hope will be something that the community can develop to show good and bad Drupal secure coding practices.

Abstract

There once was a Drupal module who wanted so badly to have a stable release, but they were insecure. As a useful and promising module to the Drupal community, they were so afraid that poor coding standards and lack of community reviews could lead to XSS, information disclosure, sql injection, and other vulnerabilities for their users.

The Drupal community is one of sharing and support. As a result, the module in this story takes the opportunity to learn and grow from the lessons of other modules and contributors to become much more secure and confident. The module becomes capable of being promoted to a full project and having a stable release. The community rejoices!

Come take a journey through this module's security audit and how their developer resolved each and every finding, following Drupal best practices for writing secure code.

Related drupal.org Security Examples sandbox https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/shrop/2821723