Central Florida

I just finished deploying our local intranet set, and the management liked it so much they want to duplicate and create at least four additional sites for each department.

I was comparing and contrasting the different ways to accomplish this. Each site will be fairly similar in functionality and most likely share the same content types, with the possibility that there may be some tweaks added or removed. It will all mostly be the same though. As it is now, I am the only person who will maintain and manage these sites.

I saw ultimike demonstrate using Table Wizard and Backup and Migrate to import a .csv earthquake data into drupal, and then map it to a content type. He then went on to use mapstraction to map the earth-quake data. It was really awesome.

I am trying to import some Microsoft Access tables from a database and do a similar thing, minus the mapping.

I exported the tables as a .csv file, then managed to set a primary key. Table wizard imports all of the rows.

Last Thursday we met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2 hour meetup. There were 6 people in attendance.

We reviewed the OpenPublish packaged distribution (http://openpublishapp.com/). We ran through the modules and features they had installed right of the box. The features can be downloaded here http://drupal.org/project/openpublish_features including their multimedia, article, blog, and event node types they have setup that you can use on your projects (without having to install the entire OpenPublish package). Ed had recently set up his site http://climatetimes.com/ using OpenPublish and ran through some of the features he implemented.

Gil went on to discuss some basic Facebook integration with Drupal sites, mainly the like button and comment box features. He used this tutorial to get him going http://hitech-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-like-button-xfbml-tutor... and used the XFBML method which tied itself to an application to monitor stats (unlike the simpler JS method).

We then had a round-table discussion on hosting services and what people have used/are using.

Last night Brevard Drupalists met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2.5-hour meetup.

There were 7 people in attendance including two new faces. During the meetup Gil did a nice overview of the Features module followed by my presentation of a potpourri a Drupal modules including Radioactivity, Zenophile, Views Unpublished, and Override Node Options.

Gil and Mike also sent some time sharing their knowledge about Drush and Drush Make, including showing how to get it up and running quickly.