Hey Everyone.
Next Thursday the 16th will be the Twin Cities Drupal Coder Meetup. This month there will be organizers of the Twin Cities Drupal Camp on hand working on this years Camp Page. If you want to lend a hand please come on out.
Even if you have no interest in helping out with the camp stop on by with your Laptop and your own project. Newbies are welcome, and if you have any questions there should be some experienced code monkeys around to answer your questions.
Beer and Pizza will be provided by Tightrope Media Systems, so please come out for a fun evening filled with PHP, HTML and JavaScript :)
The meeting is at 6PM Thursday February 16th at:
Tightrope Media Systems
Suite 1B
830 Transfer Road
Saint Paul, MN 55114
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks
-ray
Comments
Looking forward to it
I'm planning on being there. Looking forward to meeting everyone.
Software Engineer @ The Nerdery
Sorry this request is a bit
Sorry this request is a bit last minute, but would anyone be bothered if I brought my dog with me? (She would be kenneled).
Unfortunately, I have a very small window of time between normal work hours and this event, and thus, would not be able to run home to tend to her. Thanks
No Objections
As long as its house trained its welcome to stop by.
I have no problems with dogs. If someone in the group has a dog phobia you'll probably need to put it in its crate (I'm assuming thats what you mean by kennel). But if everyone is cool with dogs its welcome to rome the office.
-ray
Nerd at work
Yes, she's house trained; and
Yes, she's house trained; and I would keep her in her crate. Thanks much, should I bring anything?
Kegbot?
Will or beer counting friend be there tonight? What is the flavor of the moment?
Kegbot is Alive and Well
The Bot is operational, although we have been having some issues with phantom drinks. Will need to look into that when I have the time.
-ray
Nerd at work
Next Code Meetup?
Hi,
I came across this post when I was looking for the next Code Meetup for March. Do we have a date on that?
I'm working with Drupal 6 and I've got a project in mind. I'm not sure on the best way to go forward my little project so I thought I'd throw it out here and see what ideas come back and then show up to the next code meet up to get direct help with it.
Goal:
When a page is being created and the user clicks "Save"; I want a check to happen. I want to check the page title (), meta description (), and the URL alias.
Here is what I'm checking for:
1. Check for a value - all three items must have a value.
2. Check the length of the value - would like the length between a certain number of characters.
3. Check the Database for duplicate values (not sure how possible this one is). If something is not correct (for example: no meta description) then I need to display an error to the user ... maybe in an alert box? and stop the page from being saved until all three fields have been correctly validated.
4. When all three fields have been validated and everything is good - then let the user save the page.
I'm looking to set this up because I've got multiple large websites that had an SEO check done on them and there are hundreds of pages that have too long of titles, missing meta descriptions, and too long of URL's. I figured this check would help prevent this problem from happening.
I was thinking of setting this up as a module but I have no experience writing a module.
But I already have questions like:
1. Do I need an .install file? I'm not planning on adding anything to the DB for this module to work.
2. What hook would I use to catch the "save" button click to start the validation?
3. Is there an easier way to do this? I might be completely out of my mind.
Thanks in advance.