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Drupal Ubercart is the traditional way of deploying a e-commerce on drupal. In this presentation we will discuss how to create and develop a fully working site, by using ImageCache, CCK, Views, Views Slideshow and other modules. Plenty of customization will be achieved by using the simple theme Zen, while resorting to Semantic Views, Panels, Quicktabs and Block Class modules. We will also explain how to use social modules, like Flag, Fivestar and AddThis to increase interactivity in the site and exposure to the web. Regarding performance, we will explain what to do and what not to do, to avoid problems with caching, specially when using Views and Panels caching, Cacherouter and other modules. Additionally, some Ubercart related modules might be covered, like UC Addresses, UC Advanced Catalog, UC Views, UC Multiprice, UC VAT and UC VAT number. Because of lack of ported modules and time issues, this presentation will talk about Drupal Ubercart module, but not about Drupal Commerce module, the evolution of e-commerce in Drupal, as originally intended. For that, consult the presentation "Drupal Commerce: Meet the next generation of e-commerce solutions with Drupal", by Pedro Cambra.

Drupal Commerce is the new way to do e-commerce on Drupal 7. It's a new implementation of e-commerce solutions that takes advantage of the awesome new Drupal 7 APIs, enforcing a clean separation of the Commerce API from the default UI, and using a strict set of development standards. Drupal Commerce provides default pre-configured installation profiles that enable new users to quickly get an e-commerce site up and running, also its test coverage ensures the code quality and stability. Core features like Products and Orders take full advantage of D7's core Entity and Field systems. The modules leverage the popular Views and Rules modules to provide easily customizable user interfaces and order workflow automation. See the new features of Drupal Commerce in this session, which will include a demo of the common administrations tasks and new features and also a look inside the gears of the system.

Counting more than 6 million pageviews each month and being listed by alexa.com as one of the 200 most visited websites from Portugal, SerBenfiquista.com is probably the most popular website in Portugal powered by Drupal. It is built and maintained since 2001 by a community of fans that only have scarce resources available for running it, so the performance of the site must be planned with caution to tolerate usage peaks that can reach on match days about 2000 online users. In this session every step that we took during the migration to a Drupal architecture will be detailed. Starting by the design and architecture and passing by the configuration performed on several cache levels and database and server tuning. Pressflow, AuthCache, Memcached, nginx, APC and lots of imagination are active stake holders and will be stared in the credits. Unfortunately not everything has the same glory as Benfica, so it is imperative to talk about the problems we had since the opening date and how little details can become critical when exposed to an unexpected traffic load and how we learnt from our experience to prevent them.