Last updated by phil-roberto on Thu, 2008-10-30 13:37
October 20, 2008
These are some of the notes from our meeting this evening - our 2nd Drupal meetup in the Cincinnati area. Yea!
Remember to save frequently if you are editing, lest someone else save before you do and your changes get lost..
Do lightning talks
(5 minutes each of whatever you want: Promote your recently completed site, ask the group some questions, announce drupal news, or new modules you've learned of recently)
Member projects:
http://cincinnatibraintumorcenter.com
consists of:
Drupal 6
Flash video modules
FCKEditor
Interested in learning more about Drupal best practices.
Might cover general questions from people at this point, or might move Q&A to the end. Tonight we ended up doing it early on since we didn't have a structured agenda yet.
- creating a new content type
- basics of safely updating drupal core files from something like 6.2 to 6.5
- Overriding template files
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installing admin_menu module
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drupal videos
-- drupal school (available on itunes)
-- lullabot podcast (available on itunes)
-- drupal dojo (typically not as focused as above, recordings of live chats with screencasts)
Tools
- navicat.com - GUI SQL client, runs on Win/Mac/Linux
- firebug - for CSS editing
- WAMP/MAMP/XAMP - $57 for MAMP Pro - makes doing multiple sites easy
- mollom
- aquia package
Best Practices
- dev locally then publish to production server
Hosting Solutions & Providers - add yours
dunkoh: slicehost.com for VPS hosting, pair.com for dedicated hosting
Possible Future Topic Ideas Discussed this evening
Site setup and usage:
-- CCK
-- Views
-- Filtering down a list (exposed views)
-- Common Modules with a demo
-- Discuss Acquia's Distribution of Drupal (including the new theme with it)
-- Panels
-- Multisites: File Structure, the "sites" directory, and Table-sharing
-- Workflows and Actions
Site and Module Development
-- Development Environment setup
-- SVN/CVS usage
-- Development Workflow
-- Developing that first module
-- API usage in relation to module development (Drupal API's as well as external, i.e. Facebook)
Theming:
-- Different themes for sections of a site
Learning & where to go when you need help
-- Introduction to Drupal Handbook and issue queues - .
-- Podcasts, good learning sites, video sites, books, etc
MISC:
-- Performance Tuning
-- Handling Spam
-- Security
-- OpenID
-- Wiki in Drupal
-- Problem Solving - what are some of the common issues people run into, and how to tackle them.
-- Imagecache and ImageAPI
-- Media handling in drupal
-- JQuery
-- Searching my site (modules or options available)
-- Google Analytics
-- What to look for in a developer/designer for your new drupal site
Discussion about food for future meetups, possibility of using chipin.com to gather $ for pizza etc.
Discussion about dates/times/locations for meetups
Location
It was discussed that using the Eureka! Ranch in Newtown for future meetups was a great location idea as long as it was available (in cases where it wasn't available then an alternate would be chosen)
Date and Time
It was discussed that Wednesday nights would work well for most (sorry scott!) and that the time of 6:30pm worked well. We agreed that getting a set night a month would help attendance, so more than likely this will be the third Wednesday of the month, unless something causes an interruption such as a holiday.