Notes from San Diego April 15 2008 Meetup

Had a good meeting with some good recommendations for helpful tools and websites. Here is a list of items that were talked about.

http://www.rifftrax.com/ - Drupal site in San Diego, example of Drupal with shopping cart, integration with SMF forum

http://devzone.zend.com/article/2930-Debugging-PHP-applications-with-xdebug - Article on how to setup Eclipse PDT for debugging PHP applications with xdebug. Note: You may have a problem with debugging .module files in this environment, the tools doesn't understand how to parse the file. Workaround: Pull everything out of the .module file and put it in a file with a .inc extensions and include a reference to the .inc file at the top of the .module file. Then debug and set breakpoints in the .inc file

searching drupal using Google - In order to make use of Google abilities and search just the drupal site, type in your keywords then type in site:drupal.org

Magento - New Open Source e-commerce package. http://www.magentocommerce.com/

Refresh San Diego - Another group in San Diego that meets to talk about marketing items for web sites. http://refreshsd.org/

XML Site map - Provides a site map for the Google search engine to read

San Diego Bar Camp - The 3rd San Diego Bar Camp is coming up on May 3-4, check out the page at http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego