Santa Cruz

Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.

In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.

Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.

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NOTE THE DAY & TIME CHANGE FOR THE FEBRUARY SANTA CRUZ DRUPAL USER GROUP MEETING. It is due to the room already being booked up on Tuesday the 7th. We will be meeting WEDNESDAY THE 8TH from 5pm to 9pm. The earlier time is for those who want to take part in a training session. Details below.

For the December 6th Santa Cruz Drupal User Group, Scott Patterson will be showing us his Drupal 7 (and parallel Drupal 6) project as he hopes it will be live by then.

Also, I should know by then if I'm writing a Drupal book... stay tuned.

Let me know if anyone else has a topic they'd like to discuss.

Cal State Monterey Bay is committed to Drupal, and we're looking for another Drupal developer to help us with some exciting projects both for our campus and higher education in general. Build a few sites in your day with custom modules and themes, all following community best practices? We’d love to hear from you.

Is there a NextSpace member in the group that is hosting the SC DUG? This entails being present, opening the door, etc while the meeting is going on. If not please let me know so I can try and make sure I make myself available for the meeting on a regular basis. I will schedule the room under my membership so that it is a held space.

This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from the experts at Exaltation of Larks how to create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.

Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs is a 2-day training on November 3 & 4, 2011, with an optional third day of additional hands-on support for those developers seeking accelerated understanding of exploiting Services 3.0 to its fullest.

During this training, the experts at Exaltation of Larks cover the fundamentals of using the Drupal Services module to create, test and support use of your own web API. This training covers Services 3.0 for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

This is the training you need if you're using Drupal to create a backend for iPad, iPhone or Android applications. Developing your own web API is essential to entering the SaaS (Software as a Service) business model and this training gets you there.

Is the next Drupal Group Meeting set for Oct. 4th?

Cal State Monterey Bay is looking for a great team to help with a CRM project for managing student relationships. Our team is committed to Drupal; however, we just have so many projects that we need your help to get this one out the door!

We are expecting to release this project as an open-source install profile after we've tested it on our campus, and we hope that interested firms are equally excited to do work that will benefit both our campus and other universities and colleges as well.