Welcome to the Ann Arbor Drupal User Group
We are an open group of Drupal users in Ann Arbor, Michigan willing to freely share knowledge about Drupal.
We meet 7-9pm the last Monday of the month, generally at Bar Louie.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Drupal 5 themes - Book review
I have posted a review of Drupal 5 Themes by Ric Shreves. It's the first book dedicated entirely to Drupal theming. We needed this.
Basically, it's great for the designer wanting to learn Drupal or the Drupal newbie wanting to get a handle on Drupal's abstracted theme layer. While it covers the fundamentals well, I never found the cool new tricks I was hoping for.
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New website - vulnerable?
Hello all!
I came to the March meeting for the first time knowing I was going to be playing with Drupal in more depth, but didn't realize that less than a week later I'd be starting a new website, http://www.driveslowly.org .
In announcing it to my network, someone I trust with significant hosting experience sent me the following note:
Read moreUbercart vs. Ecommerce - 28Apr08
When building a Drupal e-commerce site you have two (pure Drupal) choices:
- e-Commerce has been around since 2004 and has many supporting modules.
- Ubercart is the new kid on the block but seems to be doing very well.
Drupalcon 08 presentations online
If you missed Drupalcon 08 or if you attended and missed a specific presentation here is your chance to catch up.
Many (46) of the presentations are now available on The Internet Archive.
What an awesome resource for free!
Read moreJackson Meetup
Audiocollective and I discussed the long overdue Jackson Meetup, and decided there's no time like the present to get the group going again. So on Monday April 14th, we are going to meet at the Hunt Club in Jackson. Come join us, share your experiences, ideas, and news on Drupal, or just geek stuff in general.
Read moreDrupal books at AADL
When I got the books for our one year party I was really struck by the desire to create a group library. I was then overwhelmed with the idea of having to continually track the books and make sure they are returned. Then Stephen reminded me that there is a perfectly good method for this already, the Ann Arbor District Library. Some of you may remember the talk that Eli gave to the group on the Libraries implementation of Drupal. What a awesomely perfect circle! And a quick search of the library catalogue shows no Drupal books. Every library should have Drupal books!
Read moreA2Drupal has a new look and feel!
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p>Thanks to the new og_panels functionality added on groups.drupal.org by moshe weitzman. Josh Koenig from the Drupal Dojo has done a great screencast showing how to implement panels within groups. The og_panels module comes stock with the Organic Groups module version 5.x-6.0.
Read moreSwitchback dedicated to A2Drupal
At our last meeting, Stephen Colson announced the launch of Switchback a CMS-driven web development and design company. This is of significance to the Ann Arbor Drupal Users Group (A2Drupal) in two ways.
Read moreA2Drupal Birthday Party - 31Mar08
The A2Drupal user group is turning 1!
Thank you Mike Oconnor (of Jackson) for making the first connection. So in your honor I invite the Jackson user group to come once again to Ann Arbor to help me celebrate my first Drupal meeting. I'm throwing a birthday party for the A2Drupal users group!
Of course, everyone is invited!
March 31, 2008
We meet 7-9pm the last Monday of the month at Ann Arbor Spark.
330 E Liberty St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Door prizes
- Apress has donated 3 copies of Pro Drupal Development book.
- Switchback has donated another 3 copies of the Pro Drupal Development book.
- Packt has donated 5 copies of Drupal 5 Themes.
Thats 11 Drupal books!
Light food and drink
- Switchback has also donated
snacks and drinks.
- I have been promised a cake, Kirsten.
I would like to mention some people and sponsors who have helped this group along:
Paul Resnick, A2Hosting, Apress, Ann Arbor Spark, Eli Neiburger, Packt
I would also like to mention the rest of the group who supplied me with some great new friends.
Please post comments below so I may gauge the size of the party. Hope to see you all there.
Happy Birthday A2Drupal!
Read moreDrupal 6 install party.
Drupal 6.0 is free and in the wild. Let's load it!
I will do a live install of Drupal 6 along with a bunch of great contributed modules. Let's see how far we can push this new Drupal.
There are already over 120 contributed modules with atleast a development version for Drupal 6. Really!!
This will be a great event to bring someone new with you. It's time for you to spread the love that Drupal has paid to all of us over the last version. The wave is rising, let's ride!
Read moreSecure pages module can seperate standard and SSL traffic
Read moreThe Secure Pages module
http://drupal.org/project/securepages
A small process which will redirect the the required pages to a SSL version of the page.
So you make sure the user is running on a secure page when they are creating/editing content, viewing user details, or administering the site.
Make sure that your web server has SSL enabled and you Drupal installation has been configured to support SSL access
Pledges and Donations
I'm interested in being able to set up a pledging system, that can enable donation bounties as a content type, and allows people to first pledge, then be billed if pledges reach a capped amount, or have no one billed of pledges do not reach an amount.
Is it already possible to do this with existing modules (like e-commerce and cck)? If not, I am committed to producing this capability, and would feedback from this group on suggestions about how to approach from a module creation standpoint
Read morePackt Publishing supports A2Drupal
Check out this email I got from Packt Publishing. They asked that I review the new Drupal 5 Themes book. I agreed and asked if they would help us celebrate our groups one year birthday coming up in March with a few books as door prizes.
Read moreAnn Arbor Drupal Users - 28Jan08
Happy New Year!
Congratulations monan on the birth of your new baby!
So as i look forward to our next meeting (28Jan08) I wonder what we should talk about. This is your group, take control and suggest some agenda for our next meeting. Better yet, offer to lead us in something. Doesn't matter that you are new to Drupal and/or this group. I often use the approaching meeting as motivation to learn something new.
Just bark out suggestions as comments below.
Read moresorry I missedthe last meeting
See you all next year. Here's a short update.
I've been able to get drupal installed on my WIMP dev server but can't seem to get 'multi-site working.
I've gotten drupal installed on my Shared host ISP but not quite working right.
Hoping to get back to more developement soon.
Right now I've bogged down deep in a client site's e-commerce site which for no apparent reason stopped taking credit cards three days ago.
Have a happy and healthy holiday season.
Read moreNo December meeting.
The last Monday of the month in December is the 31st. This doesn't seem like a good night to hold a meeting. I'm going to be out of town anyway.
See you in the New Year!
Drink but don't drink and drive.
I have this one - http://alcotester.com/al-2500.htm
Fits nicely in my pocket.
Knowledge is a good thing. A poor guess can be criminal.
Views + Profile fields != User List
edit: This is only for Drupal 5. With Drupal 6 and Views 2 you can enumerate users.
Last Night at our meeting I was sure that views could not be used to create a list of users using profile fields. As to my knowledge, views is solely based on Nodes. Every view must be in context of a node.
I was proven wrong when someone quickly pulled up a views edit page and showed profile fields in the fields pull down.
Read moreCheck out this Lullabot post -> Drupal Podcast No. 50: 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks
Drupal Podcast No. 50: 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-50-drupal-tips-and-tricks
I did not have time to listen to the podcast but the attached list was super helpful. You should check it out!
Read moreMEDIA ALERT from SPARK
Ann Arbor SPARK’s Marketing Roundtable Hosts
“The Latest Trends in Internet Marketing” with Special Guest Josh Bloom from MySpace/FOX Interactive
What: Ann Arbor SPARK’s Marketing Roundtable will host the ninth session of a series of informative marketing programs, “The Latest Trends in Internet Marketing.”
Read moreInvitation From Spark
Michael,
Glad to hear that your group is going so well. We’re going to use you as a poster child of how SPARK can assist groups that are self-organizing around technical interests!
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