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Training Spotlight: Drupal 8 Theming

With the Drupal 8 release just around the corner, now is the time to learn about the major changes it will bring for themers. For example, TWIG will be the default theme engine and thus you need to be familiar with its templating syntax. Other new hot features worth exploring are YAML config files, breakpoints, library management etc. Join this class and learn all you need to know to create your own theme in Drupal 8.

Session Spotlight: Best Practices for Coding with Drupal 8

Drupal 8 is the talk of the town and hopefully by Barcelona time, it can be the headliner. But with all of the excitement, there will also be changes that come with the new release. Drupal developers have grown used to using hooks throughout Drupal's history, but ‘times are changing’ as Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave) notes in his session about the new patterns Drupalistas will need to learn to make Drupal 8 work.

Session Spotlight: the Business track is for more than just business people

Whether you're counting Business Summit attendees or conference registrants with C-Suite titles, last year DrupalCon Europe saw about 500 attendees who were highly interested in the business-side of Drupal. As we saw in the Business Track and the business-related BoFs, there is a strong interest at Cons for not only learning the skills to code better, but also to make your business better, and DrupalCon Barcelona will be no different.