Zyxware conducts Drupal Workshop at IIT Madras as part of Shaastra 2014
Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.
IIT Madras is one of the top Engineering institutes in India and Shaastra, which is one of the largest technical festivals in the country, is the annual technical festival at IIT Madras. The Drupal workshop was part of the Hackfest event which focused on Free Software technologies / platforms this year.
The objectives of the workshop were to allow the participants to
- Get an operational understanding of Drupal
- Get a clear understanding of Drupal high level architecture
- Get an understanding of Drupal standards
- Get to a level where they can code independently in Drupal
The workshop also included lectures covering indepth details about the Drupal architecture across the following areas
- Installation
- Bootstrap
- Include files
- Users & roles
- Content types
- Entity
- Bundle
- Form API
- Theming Layer
- Theme registry
- Menu System
- Hooks & Callbacks
- Caching Layer
- Database abstraction layer
- Schema API
- Modules & pluggability
Participants were also introduced to Free Software concepts and also to the Drupal community.
