RSVP for next Wednesday's meetup
View this email in your browser
Happy New Year!
Hi ,
Welcome to 2021. Start off the new year right by joining us at next Wednesday's meetup on January 13!
January 13 Talks
Drupal fast development with Lightning
by Gerson Mejia
Lightning is an open source Drupal distribution that addresses the differences between the capabilities Drupal core provides and the needs we commonly see working with thousands of customers to build, launch, and maintain Drupal sites every day.
Bio
Gerson is an independent consultant and maker. He's been using Drupal for five years and programming custom Drupal solutions for about four years.
OpenCart - easy open-source e-commerce
by Scott Wolpow
Ever need a real simple, easy to deploy e-commerce platform? You just have simple items to sell. Magneto, Drupal Commerce, even WooCommerce all seem like overkill. OpenCart may be your answer. I will show you its ease of use, benefits, and deficiencies.
Bio
Scott started working on sites in 1995, went from horrid HTML sites to Joomla to Drupal and have added Magneto, WordPress and once forced to use Umbraco (painfully bad .NET CMS). Currently finishing a data management tool that uses Drupal to manage MongoDB, but can also handle API calls to Shopify, OpenCart, Magento, WooCommerce, and others.
Cracking Drupal
by Peter Wolanin
Security is paramount for almost any web application. Do you know which vulnerabilities are most common across the web and how that compares to the most frequent vulnerabilities in Drupal and contributed modules and Drupal core?
I will use the OWASP top 10 (as updated in 2017) as a resource and framework to take a look at security best practices to keep your site safe and take the perspective of an attacker to understand exploits. I will show you common mistakes that Drupal Developers make when they write code and how they can be avoided. As a member of the Drupal security team I have seen a lot of code and what can go wrong with it.
The talk will also touch on some security improvements in Drupal 8/9 such as using auto-escaping in the Twig template engine (XSS prevention) and built-in CSRF token support in the routing system.
Bio
In 2004, Peter Wolanin, then a full-time scientist, was introduced to Drupal after volunteering on a political campaign and starting to build a new website for the Democratic club. The road to becoming a full-time software engineer at Acquia started when Peter discovered that, pretty soon, he got more interested in fixing bugs than building the site! A Drupal core contributor since 2005 and member of the Drupal Security team since 2008, Peter now works for BioRAFT as a software architect enhancing and rebuilding a laboratory safety and compliance web application on Drupal 8.
Joining the video conference
We will send Zoom meeting details on the day of the meetup to the email address you provide when you RSVP. If you need help joining the meetup, please find support on DrupalNYC Slack.
More upcoming DrupalNYC events
Unless stated otherwise, our (virtual) meetups are on the first Wednesday of each month and start at 6pm ET.
February 3: February meetup
Senior Application Security Engineer Nadir Hajiyani will teach us about, you guessed it: Application Security!
We have time for more talks. We need you to volunteer to speak@drupalnyc.org
March 3: March meetup
New month. Same day. More Drupal. More community!
Something new?
Have an idea for new DrupalNYC event? Or want to get involved in organizing our monthly meetup? Join us in the #meetup-organize channel on DrupalNYC Slack and let's make it happen!
More upcoming Drupal events
Find more events at drupal.org/community/events.
Stay in touch
Have feedback for your volunteer organizers? We want to hear it: feedback@drupalnyc.org
Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? We'd love to hear from you: sponsor@drupalnyc.org
We always need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: speak@drupalnyc.org
Join us on DrupalNYC Slack, our online community.
Share the Drupal love
Know someone who might be interested in getting these emails? They can join the mailing list or you can forward this email to them.
-- Your volunteer DrupalNYC meetup organizers
You are receiving this email because you opted into receiving emails about our monthly meetups.
Our mailing address is: |LIST:ADDRESSLINE|
Choose which emails you receive or Unsubscribe from all DrupalNYC emails