News

Zyxware to conduct Drupal Workshop at IIT Madras as part of Shaastra 2015

Zyxware Technologies | | 1 min read

Zyxware is conducting a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the technical festival, Shaastra 2015. The workshop will be held from Jan 3 - 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies and Mr. Vimal Joseph, Technical Architect.

IIT Madras is one of the top Engineering institutes in India and Shaastra, one of the largest technical festivals in the country, is the annual technical festival at IIT Madras. The Drupal workshop is part of the Hackfest event that focuses on Free Software technologies / platforms this year.

The major objectives of the workshop is 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 includes lectures covering in-depth 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 would be also introduced to Free Software concepts and also to the Drupal community.

 

 

Related Topics