Philadelphia Area

I know it is the summer and how busy people are with one thing or another. I'm just wonder when the next meet up for the philly group?

ACGs enterprise and fast growing Open Source practice based in Phila and NYC is experiencing exponential growth. We have open ended consulting and FTe roles for experienced Open source technical leads with strong Drupal Based Content Management experience.

Consulting roles have some work flexibility and FTE roles shall provide high growth career opportunities
We work with a broad base of technology stacks: LAMP, Liferay, Open Laszlo, Alfresco, Drupal.
We are looking for senior developers, leads and architects who will also want to drive thought leadership, vision and strategy.

Philly Drupal Group folks are invited to attend the first Greater Philadelphia User Experience Summer Picnic, which will bring together:

• UPA Delaware Valley
• PhillyCHI
• PANMA
• STC Philadelphia
• IDSA
• Philly Drupal Group
• Philly PHP Meetup

This will be a family event, with volleyball, bocce, etc.

Date: Sunday, June 29th, 12-3pm.

Location: Ridley Creek State Park - Pavilion #3

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/4bvc2k

Ridley Creek State Park Map: http://tinyurl.com/58hg46 (PDF)

Please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information.

I've been teaching Drupal to a few of my friends for several months and they are at a point where they could use a client project to push them forward in real-world Drupaling.

How about the week of June 9th? What day?

Please RSVP now for the Mt Airy Meetup at Canary. It's this Thursday at 7 (details below) so the sooner I know how many are coming the better. I need to make sure to have enough places for everyone to sit and clear out the necessary clutter. I estimate we can comfortably fit 8-10 people in here without moving furniture, so I need to know if there will be more than that.

Please rsvp in the comments.

Thursday May 8, 7:00pm

Canary Promotion + Design
http://www.canarypromo.com

7135 Germantown Ave,
2nd floor,
Phila, PA 19119
215.242.6393

Please note I'm just the messenger here — use the contact below if you have any questions about the position.

Friends General Conference is seeking candidates for a six-month, renewable contract position as Web Manager. We have recently re-designed our web sites utilizing Drupal as the CMS platform and are working to change the sites from brochure-ware into dynamic Web 2.0 community-building tools. We hope to employ an innovative and creative Web Manager to assist us in moving this work forward.

WhittmanHart Interactive is looking for a contracted Front End Developer. This person must possess:
2-3 years front end experience (HTML/XHTML/JavaScript/CSS/W3C)
2-3 years of PHP experience
1+ years of Drupal 5.X experience

To apply please email me directly at jlipson@whittmanhart.com

Nothing like a little last minute Drupal meetup to keep April interesting! Mason started the discussions around a Mt. Airy meetup, which looks like it's coming together for May. So lets fill the gap with another Old City meetup this week, Thursday the 17th.

Obvious choices are a show-and-tell at IndyHall, or a social at National Mechanics.

Opinions on which people would like to do?

Thanks!
Nate

Anyone interested in getting together to do a show-and-tell group in NW Philly? I've got space at my company's office where we can fit up to around 10 people, and I think it would be really great to have an informal group where we can go over projects, discoveries, techniques, and issues. It's a cool space on a cool block, easily accessible by Septa or car for those not in the area. And once we're done we go across the street for drinks and food.

Possible dates: Apr 22, 23, or 24, or May 6, 7, or 8. I could also have it on a weekend if there's interest.

Location:

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FRIENDS JOURNAL, a nonprofit monthly Quaker magazine, seeks a web manager for www.friendsjournal.org. This is a contract position and can be performed remotely.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the publisher and executive editor, associate publisher, director of advancement, and art department to understand FRIENDS JOURNAL style and to further the work of fundraising, promotion, and delivery of content and service to readers.

On July 15th & 16th, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine will host the Higher Education Web Symposium.

This two-day conference will provide tools, tips and techniques for web designers, developers, programmers, and project managers to help us all create better and more usable applications and websites. Jared Spool leads off the all star cast of presenters. Additional scheduled presenters include: Eric Meyer, Dana Chisnell, Stephanie Sullivan, and others!

Hi Drupalers.

Not sure if Drupal groups is intended to ask drupal related questions, so feel free to put me in my place if I'm breaking the rules.

Just wondering if anyone is aware of a module that would tell a registered user, and/or redirect them, to the last page they accessed the last time they were logged in?

This is for a client using the book module as an online course, so it's intended for those who don't complete the course in one sitting -- so when they come back next time they will know where they left off.

Hey,

The next PHP meetup isn't until April 29th - it's going to be an educational event and should be a pretty good one -- the topic is testing, which will become increasingly important to Drupal as well.

But in the meantime we should do a more Drupal-focussed event. In the past there's been requests for more collaborative, educational kinds of meetups. Who's got some ideas?

• 2-3 people doing Show 'n Tell of sites they've done recently
• 1-2 people walking through the code of a module they've built
• skip the planning and do an "un-meetup" and let a few people lead small-group discussions

Anyone else?

We're planning another social for the month of March -- returning to National Mechanics for some beers and burgers. First of all, a bunch of people will be returning from Drupalcon Boston and will no doubt have interesting things to say about the state and future of Drupal. Secondly, I'd like to further the planning of an April PHP Meetup educational event on the use of tests in PHP -- unit tests, test driven development, etc. We have two potential speakers at this point, might be looking for one additional.

Hey all- so it looks like the majority has spoken and we will be meeting up on Wednesday, February 27th, at 7:00PM. The meetup will be held at Nodding Head Brewery, located at 1516 Sansom St. on the 2nd Floor.

Please feel free to pass this on and hope to see you on Wednesday!

P.S. I tried to add this as an event, but the SPAM filter spit back this error:

Given that there's no official Drupal meetup this month, is anyone interested in getting together for an informal pre-DrupalCon Drupal meetup? We could just meet for drinks, we could allow people to bring projects they're working on that they need help/advice on, or both/neither. Or, hell, we could just have a Drupal 6 release party.

Anyway, I'm obviously down for a meetup before DrupalCon (I need a drink and am grasping at straws here people!), anyone else?

So I wasn't able to muster a Drupal Group event for this month. We were planning a PHP Meetup social, but just found out there's a presentation by the Open Web Application Security Project taking place the same night (Tues Feb 19) at Drexel. The topic is developing and deploying secure PHP apps, so the PHP Meetup kids are going to attend that event. Details are below. All are certainly welcome and I'm sure there will be plenty of info useful to Drupal developers as well. And afterwards we'll head over to Mad Mex for some beer and burritos.

Next month, a number of us are heading to Boston for Drupalcon '08. I thought for a local event towards the end of March we could have some of the folks who went talk about what they learned and what they saw that was cool -- really, just a big roundtable discussion kicked off by some of the sessions and lessons from Drupalcon. Still working on a date and location for that.

Anyway I hope to see some of you at the event on Tuesday the 19th, and I know I'll see some of you in Boston!

Nate.

- - Philadelphia OWASP Patten Auditorium Drexel University -

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Thanks, John Quillen

Anybody else going to Drupalcon in Boston in March?
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/

January's event will be a relaxing social as we ease in to the new year. We'll spend some time talking about our ideas, wants and wishes for the year and planning some educational events so please come out and tell us what topics you're interested in and you'd like to see the group do in 2008!

When: January 21, 7:00 PM
Location:Triumph Brewing Company, 117 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
RSVP: http://php.meetup.com/353/ -or- post a comment here if you prefer.

We are Rock River Star, a web development agency located in Chester County, PA. We run a small, tight shop of 6 developers and have a number of Drupal projects (as well as traditional PHP/MySQL projects) underway all the time.

We're always on the lookout for great new talent. If you love Drupal and would love to work with some great developers, drop me a note. We all work from home but find frequent opportunities to get out and work face to face with each other. We're heavily involved in the local networking groups, attending and presenting at PANMA, the PHP Meetup, and the Drupal Group.

We're planning an informal presentation event for November, to be held at Independents Hall (www.indyhall.org) in Old City. We're looking for 3-4 presenters to show something they've done in Drupal, demo their favorite modules, etc. Please let me know if you're interested in presenting!

After the presentations we'll head across the street to National Mechanics for some well-deserved beers and more converstaion.

Join us on October 25th for an introduction to Open Source web application frameworks. A framework is a reusable software design which improves the development process by letting a programmer focus on the business-specific tasks of a project rather than repetitive, common tasks like database access, templating, and session management. We'll learn more about web application frameworks in general and explore a number of today's most popular ones.

I am theming input form -

• used the hanbook to get to the point where created and invoked node_form.tpl.php.
• used css to theme form- widths and layout

problem:

This position is located in New York City. We will pay relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Inc.com and FastCompany.com, two of the fastest-growing and most prominent business web sites in the U.S., have a position open on their technology staff. We are looking for a senior candidate who has extensive experience with the Drupal content management platform.

Hi all,

Sorry for the last-minute notice. Tomorrow evening we'll be meeting up with the PHP group and the Philadelphia Standards Organization at National Mechanics, in Old City. Details and RSVP at http://php.meetup.com/353/

Hope to see you there!

I'm looking forward to attending my first Drupal meet-up, couldn't make it last month but I really want to attend the next one. Is there a date/place set for August for the Philadelphia area group?

Thanks,

Shai

I just announced that the Embedded Media Field now supports custom media url's, but I forgot to mention that the idea for that support came from the meet-up last week, specifically in a conversation with jkopel & Jen Simmons. At least one other (whose username I can't find here), and probably others; sorry if I forgot to mention you. I met a lot of cool new people here.

Let's keep a page of places we might be able to hold events:

Educational/Presentation events

This was just a thought I had... our Campus in Langhorne [www.pbu.edu] is about a block or so from the Langhorne Septa station. We have classrooms, conference rooms, lecture halls, a wireless network... (Joshua Benner )

I've just moved to Harrisburg, PA. I work as a developer with Advomatic. Recent projects of mine: Views Slideshow, Embedded Media Field, Drupal FTP, and RPG. Some of my personal sites are Drupal RGP, Drupal Hub (demo for Embedded Media Field and Views Slideshow), and Spindowners (an upcoming web-based rpg).

I look forward to being active in this group -- I just moved here last week, so I probably can't come to the meetup on Tuesday, but I will definitely make sure to be present when I can.

Aaron Winborn

Fellow member of our group is moving to NYC and has already found a great Drupal event happening.

It's a two day FREE Drupal Session, and I think there might be some consumption of drinks before, during, or after.

Here's the details
http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampNYC3

and here's the registration
http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampNYC3Attendants

I hope a few of us Philly guys will be going up to establish the City of Brotherly Love as Drupal savvy.

Join us on October 25th for an introduction to Open Source web application frameworks. A framework is a reusable software design which improves the development process by letting a programmer focus on the business-specific tasks of a project rather than repetitive, common tasks like database access, templating, and session management. We'll learn more about web application frameworks in general and explore a number of today's most popular ones.

We're back at Gullifty's next week for another summer outdoor PHP/Drupal meetup. Last time was another nice mix of folks -- with some heroically driving from New Jersey; once again, nobody taking advantage of the nearby transit stop :)

Anyway, the menu once again is all things Drupal, PHP, Open Source, and whatever else is on your mind.

We'll also be discussing and planning our first educational/presentation style event in the fall. I already have one victim volunteer willing to present. We'll be looking for more, and also discussing a location, timeframe, and ways to dragging inviting more people.

Please RSVP at http://php.meetup.com/353/ to let us know to look for you!

Hi all,

Found a place for the May Drupal Group / PHP Meetup Mashup. Gullifty's in Bryn Mawr -- they have a pretty big outdoor bar area, and assuming the weather holds, it should be a really nice time.

Please RSVP (on the PHP meeup page below, or just with a comment here) to let us know if you can make it -- and please pass this along to anyone else who might be interested.

Thanks,
Nate

http://php.meetup.com/353/calendar/5681296/

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Where: Gullifty's
1149 Lancaster Ave
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(610) 525-1851

Well, the April PHP meetup drew a nice crowd of 8 people. We were seated at 2 tables of 4 each, and our table basically talked Drupal all night! So it's clear there's some overlap and I'd like to play that up. I'd also like to try to correct the problem of being stuck in one position all night, not being able to mix up conversation. So, I'd like to try to get the PHP Meetup crowd and the Drupal Group crowd together for an evening.

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:00 PM

RSVP: http://php.meetup.com/353/calendar/5681296/

Where: Gullifty's
1149 Lancaster Ave

Hi all,

Sorry for the late notice but wanted to say the PHP Meetup group is getting together tomorrow, April 17th, 7pm at the Great American Pub in Wayne, which is steps from the Wayne R5 SEPTA stop, for city folk.

More info: http://php.meetup.com/353/

There's been some Drupal interest there in the past, and it's always good to learn from others doing similar things. Join the group and RSVP if you can make it!

Thanks,
Nate

The drupal philadelphia area meeting for April fell a part like an ikea made armoire being moved from one room to the next.... i now have experience in both:)

Thank you to fstpierre. The Science Leadership Center on 22nd & north broad is a great resource to have if needed for something in the future.

hello:

i am studying php .... but don't even know where to look for the source of this issue...

Problem

i have used the php snippet to print a views block on my node-frontpage.tpl.php:

• B article ()
• A article ()
• D article ()
• C article ()
• E article ()

why is it printing out '()'
any help on this or pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Everybody ready to get together next week? Quixotic life started a wiki for an agenda and such...so check that out. --- lets try to get some activity on the wiki - the more activity the more we can clarify what we want to do...

incidentally my vote is to have a meeting talking only about JOOMLA....kidding:)

looking forward to the meetup

jamie (henns20)

This is a request from Hens20 (sorry for taking so long man!!) that I think others would find interesting if they already do not know about it. There was a site that had the .swf of the whole screencast for lesson #1 but drupaldojo.com has the entire screencast for you to download. Here is the link to the page:

http://www.drupaldojo.com/lessons?page=2

Scroll all the way to the bottom for the link to lesson #1.

Has anyone out there designed a drupal theme from scratch? We are looking to do this for work and can pay someone if they have done this before and are interested.

Hey guys,

I wish I had seen the Philly meetup before today! I've just started playing around with Drupal and CiviCRM, so this is probably a pretty newbie question...my apologies in advance.

Here's the basic use case for what I'm trying to do:
Goal: We're setting up a website to organize grassroots supporters for Barack Obama in Philadelphia. We want a site where interested volunteers can go and sign up. From there, neighborhood leaders can search and find volunteers with the right skill sets to get in touch with for various activities.

Use this wiki page to help develop agenda items for our next meeting in April.

Since several people expressed interest at our first meeting expressed interest in the Content Construction Kit (CCK), which is an add-on for 4.7 and built-in to 5.x, I wanted to highlight this article just posted at Lullabot:

What is the Content Construction Kit? A View from the Database (March 7)

Feel free to use this space to ask questions about CCK, talk about features, provide examples, or talk about the article.

(This is the event I mentioned last night. All welcome!)

PANMA is teaming with SEER Interactive (www.thinkseer.com) to offer an exciting, informative program on Search Engine Optimization. Wil Reynolds, SEER Interactive's CEO and founder, is a dynamic speaker who can explicate the intricacies of SEO, debunk the myths and show you how it really works. Wil and his team detail the analysis of a website for optimization and show how execution of the technology is key. Don't miss this chance to learn from one of the best in the business!