Ireland
Greetings! This group is for the ever-expanding Drupal community in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Post events, recruiting stuff, or requests for beer expeditions herein...
Next Drupal Camp - DrupalCamp Clare May 15th-16th 2010
We're going west again for the next DrupalCamp, this time to the beautiful village of Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. Our main organisers are Conor and Sile from Fluidedge and the fantastic venue is the Burren College of Art.
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Upcoming Local Events
Small regular meetings are held in various parts of the country, usually on a monthly basis. See the list below for upcoming meet-ups in your area.
- Dublin - 6:30pm, 31st March 2010 - Longstone Pub (upstairs), Townsend St, Dublin 2
- Belfast - 5pm, 25th March 2010 - Duke of York
- Galway - TBD - room 303 in the IT Building on the NUIG Campus.
- Sligo - TBD
Web Developer | kids' Own Publishing Partnership
Kids' Own Publishing Partnership are looking for a Drupal web developer to assist with a re-design of Practice.ie; an online space making visible arts practice with children and young people.
http://practice.ie/
Any one interested in working with us will need to have a tax clearance certificate to work in Ireland.
Can you contact us at info@kidsown if you are interested, can you send me on some details about your rate and some examples.
Initially we are looking for an individual to assist in the redesign but we would also need support to maintain the site also.
Circular Referencing with Content types and Views
Hi all,
I have a query about views and node references. I have 2 content types called Class & Resources.
The class content type has a node reference field called AssociatedResources and the Resources content type has a node reference called AssociatedModule
I would like to have a number of users with permission to create Resources and as part of that process associate it with a particular class using the associated class list of nodes
User Reference field Views2
Hi Drupal Ireland users,
I'm hoping some users based nearer to home will be able to help clear up a problem I am having getting a User Reference field to display the content I want the way I want.
I have a View with a page display that lists all the current users on a table list (Firstname Surname) with the firstname linked to the profile node for editing. The list is supposed to be used in a number of content types so I don't have to translate account name's when selecting users to associate with that content type.
Mid West Group - Meetup
Hi, Am a drupal user in Limerick so am just wondering if anyone is interested in trying to get a Mid-West Drupal group going. Maybe we could meetup once a month to share ideas etc.
DrupalCamp Burren (Clare, Ireland)
The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland are providing the space for this summer's DrupalCamp in Ireland. It's free and everyone is welcome.
DrupalCamp Burren (Clare, Ireland) 15th & 16th of May 2010
The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare have kindly offered space to host this summer's DrupalCamp in Ireland. Wi-Fi, a large gallery space, a lecture theatre, a seminar room and cafeteria are available both days. And come evening we can enjoy some great restaurants and bars in the village, which also has several hotels, B&Bs and self catering cottages in which to stay. On top of that, it's set in the unique Burren landscape, looking out over Galway Bay. Doolin, Lahinch and Kinvara are nearby, so if you want to make a proper break of it and come earlier or stay on after the camp, there's lots to see and do.
If you're keen to help out in any way, please don't be shy, do let us know. What we really need now are for people to volunteer to give presentations on any aspect of Drupal for either absolute beginners or seasoned developers.
Creating a Drupal Image gallery with Flex - e-seminar
Hi guys,
We are working on creating an image gallery with Flash and Flex/ActionScript which will be open source and placed on Drupal.org in the modules section, and are currently in the code review phase. We wanted a bit of feedback from the community before posting this on the Drupal site, so we are having a 30 minute e-seminar to present the module and gather some ideas. If you would like to join and help make this better, please register at this address:
http://drupalimagemodule-drplcomm.eventbrite.com
The registration is just for us to estimate the size of the Connect room needed.
Belfast Drupal Meetup
Informal meetup - pints and drupal chat. everyone welcome.
Duke of York, Donegall Street, Belfast
http://www.belfastbar.co.uk/duke-of-york-review.htm
I'll be there from 7.
thesixtyone.com a great new music site. It's like a myspace music site, but, done properly and with elegance.
This isn't a Drupal site, but, I was blown away by the elegance in the layout and design. A superb example of a simple but very good site.
Apart from the general look n feel, I like the way the iconised navigation is implemented. Superb.
Great music too!
Trimming node titles
OK, so maybe I am missing something really basic, but this cropped up today when I was creating a directory index for publications on one of our sites.
I created a view using the default glossary view as a reference. When I first created the view and added my filters for Published and Node Type I noticed that the preview list had no sort order so I added Sort By: Node Title and previewed again... was surprised to see something along the lines of:
Advice Note 1: Charitable Status
9 things you need to know about policy analysis
A Guide to Good Employment
A new module I wrote at the weekend - Environment Indicator
The Environment Indicator adds a coloured strip to the side of the site informing you which environment you're currently in (Development, Staging, Production etc). This is incredibly useful if you have multiple environments for each of your sites, and like me, are prone to forgetting which version of the site you are currently looking at!
This module can help you avoid making configuration changes to your live server by mistake, by adding a coloured strip to the side of your site, clearly marking each version of the site.
The Environment Indicator settings page allows you to modify some elements of the indicator's behaviour and appearance. Individual settings, such as the text to display and the colour can be overridden for each of your specific environments in the site's settings.php file. This allows you to customise the indicator for each of your environments without needing to make any changes in the database. This means that the Environment Indicator will always display correctly when moving your site from development to staging to production.
Where would you like the next Drupal Camp Ireland to be held?
Case Study: Concern Fast
I have just published a fairly detailed case study for concernfast.org, which went live a couple of weeks back. You can also find the case study on my blog
I hope you all enjoy reading it, and please do ask if you have any questions.
Something I learned today
While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.
Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!
CSS/Theming/Layout work | Indytech
Looking for someone to help out occasionally getting site layouts to look right, and teach us a bit along the way. CSS and theming are key skills of course, with other things as needed. Preference is Irish-based Drupaller, but will consider people abroad if we can't find someone local.
Next Drupalcamp Ireland
Has there been any suggestion or plans for the hosting of the next drupalcamp in Ireland?
I may be able to both logistically and financially help with sponsorship for an event in the new year.
In terms of the next drupalcamp does anyone have any idea what format it may take, does anyone want it to focus on any particular aspects? The first camp I went to in Belfast I enjoyed and presented a couple of sessions, however I feel as though their could be more structure to the presentations to absolute beginners.
Thoughts?
Belfast meetup @ Duke of York - thursday 29 Oct.
Informal meetup - pints and drupal chat. everyone welcome.
we're aiming to meet on the last thursday of every month with alternative around christmas.
Duke of York, Donegall Street, Belfast
Developer | NICVA
NICVA - Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action is a non profit membership organisation based in Belfast. We are looking for a developer to enhance our existing online services and build new ones.
Some of our sites include www.communityni.org , www.grant-tracker.org and www.communitybuyer.org.
the successful candidate will be working full-time with drupal - plenty of opportunity to develop your drupal skills.
closing date 16 October 2009
more details at http://www.communityni.org/job/web-developer
Recommend a Xen Based VPS
Hi all,
I need to get my hands on a Xen-based VPS, that will support Ubuntu 8.04.
Preferably In Ireland [or at least Europe].
Digiweb will do Ubuntu 8.10 [even though not mentioned on their site]
http://hosting.digiweb.ie/virtual-servers/business-linux/
Slicehost are good - but in the US.
http://www.slicehost.com/our-servers/
Rimuhosting get good references.
http://rimuhosting.com
Any others - Anyone with experiences with the above, good or bad?
I always made the assumption that Latency from the US would rule out US providers.
But am I right?
Later
Alan
Big up to the Belfast crew!
A fantastic weekend was had by all at Drupalcamp Belfast 2009.
Top notch venue, cracking presentations, lovely grub and coffee on tap.
What more could we ask for?
A big thank you to Stephen, Feargal, Stephen, Chris, Adam, Julie and all the others who put the event together.
Much respect to the sponsors who kept the whole event free [as in beer... well not free beer...but you know what I mean!]
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