Welcome! The goal of this group is to build relationships and share skills with Drupal in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater region of Virginia, including Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Richmond, and surrounding areas.
Meetups are held the first Wednesday evening of every month. Events will be posted here and on Meetup.com.
June Drupal Meetup
Hi folks,
Just wanted to announce the next Drupal Meetup. You can RSVP and learn more on our Meetup.com account
http://www.meetup.com/Hampton-Roads-Drupal-Users/events/59514282/
Looking forward to it,
Josh
Web Developer | Journey Group, Inc.
Journey Group, Inc. (http://www.journeygroup.com or @journeygroup on Twitter) has been in the design and custom content business for twenty years. We're based in Charlottesville, VA, but have offices in DC, Nashville and Tidewater. We build everything from small-scale static websites for product and event promotion to large-scale, enterprise Drupal-powered sites for orgs in the non-profit, higher ed, and gov sectors.
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May Hampton Roads/Tidewater DUG Meetup
Have a Drupal website or website feature to share? Our May meetup is a time to show off your work. If you're new to Drupal, it will be a good time to learn what Drupal can do. Got a topic suggestion for future meetups? Suggestions are always welcome. http://www.meetup.com/Hampton-Roads-Drupal-Users/
Monthly Meetups are held at Christopher Newport University, Ratcliffe Hall #200.
Did you miss Drupalcon Denver?
Got this tip from twitter. All the videos from Drupalcon Denver are online, but you usually have to watch them streamed. If you want to download them all for later, offline, or repeated viewing, here are instructions:
From Twitter! I've just downloaded all the @DrupalCon Denver sessions to my iPhone. Want to know how I did it? goo.gl/nSkTc
http://stuffly.posterous.com/drupalcon-denver-bliptv-session-videos-to-itu
- Open iTunes
- Go to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast
- Paste http://blip.tv/drupalcondenver/rss/itunes into the dialogue box
Modification to the CKEditor Dropdown
I am watching Andrew Mallis's
http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/what-you-see-not-always-wh...
This session was really useful.
I have successfully gotten some of the functionality done, but as usual there is a part that needs me to go edit code and I am lost.
See video at time 25:15 where he is using CUSTOM styles in his format dropdown.
What I want is my dropdown 'Format' to populate with formats from MY css rather than the generic list of them. See attachment dropdowns.png for what i see now.
See goodstyles.png for what i WANT to see.
April Tidewater/Hampton Roads DUG Meetup
At the April Meetup, we'll start with pizza and networking, followed by presentations from several of our group members who traveled to Denver in March for DrupalCon. They will share some highlights and take-aways from the conference.
Location:
Christopher Newport University, Ratcliffe Hall #200 (Newport News, VA) (see attached campus map)
Directions:
From Warwick Blvd:
Turn onto AVENUE OF THE ARTS 'into' the CNU campus.
Follow this road to the roundabout and then get out of the roundabout on SHOE LN
Turn RIGHT onto MOORES LN and continue to parking.
Hosting with SSH/Drush?
I am looking into hosting for my personal/BLOG site. Needs to be cheap but I hope to be able to use drush. Any recommendations? I tried to call a few of them during the day.. but i was like 70th in line to speak to customer service. Come to think of it maybe that says something about who to use too.. Any good picks?
Questions about Custom Context
Does anyone have experience writing custom context conditions into modules? I have one that has me stumped.
What I need is a simple context, the plugin for which gives the user a short list of allowed values (3 or 4) to be compared against a single external variable (in this case, stored as a session variable).
I have the rest of the framework I need pretty much hammered out at this point-- it's just the custom context that's causing me heartburn.
Any takers? I'm happy to provide more details upon request.
IRC? Support? Best resources?
Any of you have any luck with IRC?
I used to go on the Drupal IRC channels when i was new to Drupal. It sort of turned me off to IRC because I was probably just asking too many questions I suppose. I have not been on there in a while.. Now it seems If I went back my questions would be so vastly complex that it might be even worse. I could probably answer some other peoples questions at this point at least.
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If you're going to DrupalCon Denver later this month and are interested in getting together with other area/regional group members, let us know and we'll try to meet up. At least 3 members of the Hampton Roads/Tidewater group are going.
If you're not going and are interested in knowing more about DrupalCon, maybe we can give an overview at our next meetup.
Hampton Roads Drupal Meetup - March 7th
Mark your calendar! We are planning a Drupal Meet Up in the Hampton Roads area for Wednesday, March 7th from 6-7:30pm. Meeting will be held on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News. Room location is still TBD, but will be posted here soon.
We plan to incorporate some introductions, conversations amongst folks, as well as a presentation or two. If you have a presentation idea, throw it our way...we have a few ideas too!
Moving forward, our thought is to host these meetings every month on the 1st Wednesday of the month.
Read moreDrupal 7 Image Gallery Recipes?
Any of you have a good, easy way to create image galleries in D7? I'm trying to do something thats super-simple to use for my clients, have multiple galleries display on different pages, and have easy uploading of pictures. and 'imagecache'like on the fly resizing.
I could do this in D6 but this is my first site LEARNING D7
Thanks
Jeff
Drupal Camp MD
Anyone heading up to DrupalCampMD in Baltimore this weekend? http://drupalcampmd.org/
Looks like it's going to be a great event with some very good sessions. If you are going to be there, let me know...we should meet up.
Josh
Meetups?
Anyone in the Williamsburg/Newport News/Hampton area interested in a meetup? I know there have been some Tidewater meetups in the past, but was not able to attend. I'm looking for opportunities to network with other Drupal-ers. I'm planning to head to Richmond for their February meetup on Omega theme and would love something like that here.
Goin Mobile
Hi everyone,
Anyone have experience building mobile sites in which you can manage the content with Drupal?
We built a site for a conference that's in the spring, and the client would like to have a mobile version of the site that simplifies the information, shares the schedule of the conference programs, a map of the event location, and possibly a twitter feed of comments related to the conference.
Not 100% that Drupal is a good solution for this, but their current site is already in Drupal and I'd really like their team to only have to manage content in one place.
Thanks!
Opinion(s) on Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7?
Hi Everyone -
I'd appreciate any perspectives/opinions/experiences on Drupal 7. I'd like to build a "responsive" site that can adapt to any screen size (who wouldn't - right? ;-)
Our current site was built with D6. While not overly complicated it has multiple Blogs, Feeds and provides access to video via a video library. With the new site, we'd like to introduce a Mapping feature (i.e. Tilemill/Mapbox) to provide ready access to projects and related data/content in an attractive, easy to use interface.
Read moreSenior Level Drupal Developer | Artsmith Media
Artsmith Media (www.artsmithmedia.com) is seeking a Senior Level Drupal Developer in the Norfolk, VA area. We are looking for candidates with experience in building large-scale web systems including websites, e-commerce platforms, and custom applications. Candidates must be experienced with web-based technology including (but not limited too) PHP, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, etc. Candidates must be familiar with SQL database platforms, web servers, and LAMP stacks. Candidates must have at least 3 years of applicable experience and extensive experience specifically with Drupal.
Read moreArtsmith Media - Seeking Senior Drupal Developer to add to the team
Artsmith Media (www.artsmithmedia.com) is seeking a Senior Level Drupal Developer in the Norfolk, VA area. We are looking for candidates with experience in building large-scale web systems including websites, e-commerce platforms, and custom applications. Candidates must be experienced with web-based technology including (but not limited too) PHP, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, etc. Candidates must be familiar with SQL database platforms, web servers, and LAMP stacks. Candidates must have at least 3 years of applicable experience and extensive experience specifically with Drupal.
Read morehelp me with a few drupal issues | CDG Marketing (me)
I've set up a Drupal site for a client. It was the only platform that had a module/plugin with the functionality of FillPDF. I've got the main functionality all taken care. (hired someone on freelancer.com to do the heavy lifting)
Read morePHP Developer | Randstad Technologies (formerly Sapphire Technologies)
Does anyone know someone who might be a good fit for this full-time opportunity? Not very Drupal-heavy but does possess related technologies...
PHP Developer
We are in need of a talented and creative programmer who has the following characteristics:
Strong experience with PHP/MySQL, AJAX, XML, JavaScript, JQuery, Apache, Routine Unix/Linux Administration, Content Deployment
Experience developing web/mobile apps, browser extensions, API's, etc.
Experience with Flash ActionScript, Flash Video, Objective C and HTML5 is a strong plus.
Strong handle on XHTML & CSS Standards.
