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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 Book Release Party on 10/11 and DrupalNYC Meetup 10/5 Roundup

Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:08am — decibel.places

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 book relase party

Written by over 30 Drupalers

Tuesday October 11, 2011 7PM

At Lucky Jack's downstairs

(private room)

129 Orchard Street (between Rivington & Delancey, LES)

NY, NY 10002

Buy the book, bring it for signing

Last night’s DrupalNYC Meetup presentations:

Drush console, part of https://github.com/zroger/drush-toolbox

Drush console uses phpsh and some extra magic to give you a REPL environment much closer to Scala, Ruby or Python with Drupal.

Lots of great tools, autocomplete syntaxes etc, for people who live on the command line

Feather http://drupal.org/project/feather

(also part of zroger's drush-toolbox)

Feather is a Drush script for managing and running an Apache http server in a development environment with minimal configuration. Feather maintains an isolated set of Apache configuration files, optimized to run a minimal httpd server. These configuration files are completely managed by Feather, so gone are the days of manually setting up virtual hosts for every new development site.

Compass and SCSS http://drupal.org/project/compass

All the benefits of LESS and much more: CSS Libraries and compiled SCSS

I strongly advise using Compass + SCSS, it is the future of CSS

Drawbacks - there is no "converter" to turn existing CSS stylesheets intop SCSS - you have to start from scratch

Also the Omega theme is SCSS aware and “responsive” meaning it scales for various viewports down to mobile screen size

Zemanta http://drupal.org/project/zemanta

Zemanta is a content creation dashboard on steroids and recommends related material from your site and selected external resources to add (images, blog posts etc)

Workbench workflow dashboard http://drupal.org/project/workbench

All the features I created for The Writers Network workflow last year – using Views, Workflow, Panels modules, and lots of custom code, in Drupal 6 - Workbench is for Drupal 7

Drawbacks – Workbench DOES NOT leverage these common modules, and therefore has no export settings (or Features) support – every installation must be configured from the web admin

DrupalNYC Meetups are also video archived at http://vimeo.com/channels/drupalnyc

Report from my first DrupalCamp

Sat, 12/05/2009 - 11:49pm — decibel.places

The Drupal tribes of the NYC metro area gathered in Brooklyn for DrupalCampNYC 7. Developers, themers, publishers, and newbies participated in the "un"conference. Topics for the sessions were collaboratively proposed and scheduled. An informal and electric atmosphere pervaded, as people traded knowledge, and asked and answered questions.

Drupal Camp 7 Presentations Wiki |||| DrupalCampNYC 7 Google Wave

Drupal Camp NYC 7 sessions I attended included InstallFest, performance tuning and caching, debugging and patches, Drush, Services, and Open Atrium. There was also an attempt at a Drupal Kata for Features but I was the only participant who prepared the pre-installs - I think a larger attendance would be necessary to produce the critical mass of people interested AND prepared. I was interested in the group learning exercise as a possible training tool if I join Acquia (I've had two interviews, waiting for the next for what could be a dream job) - I offered to help Bram with future Kata experiments.

From the intro by Eric: "Drupal is free as in kittens. Free, but you need to take care of it, nurture it, and clean out its litterbox."

Thomas at the podium of DrupalCampNYC

Jacob looked dandy in his Drupal Association uniform.

Thomas organized and kept it all loose.

Peter guided newcomers at InstallFest.

Bagels were provided for breakfast, and pizza (including meat-free) for lunch.

Even at lunch the information kept flowing with mini "lightning" talks. One that got my notice was a description of Poverty's Demise, a charitable organization for children that proposes passing 100% of donations to recipients by leveraging the savings of open source, sponsorship and advertising. If you are planning to get me a present, give it to Poverty's Demise, sounds like a good cause to me!

Lunch break concluded with a raffle of some donated books and vouchers for House of Brews (site of the monthly DrupalNYC meetup).

Free beer was provided by Zivtech at Floyd afterwards. Alex brought in yummy hummus, baba ganoush, roasted eggplant, stuffed grape leaves and pitas from the famous Atlantic Ave neighborhood. I spoke with Nat (who presented the Drush session) about Nat the Baltimore ferry (and Drush) tour guide both of us having been tour guides and how that helps us in classroom settings.