Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group!
As of April 2025, we are no longer posting events in this group (there are too many places to post events and groups.drupal.org is dying a slow death).
TxDUG / Texas Drupal organizers are collecting contact info for Drupalers in Texas so we can stop being reliant on other platforms (here’s looking at you Meetup.com) for communicating announcements. Please fill out this form so we can email you about Drupal events in Texas (you can choose which regions).
Please join us in the #austin-texas channel on Drupal Slack. If you aren't already on Drupal Slack, join here.
We continue to post our meetups in Drupal.org's Community Events section.
For now, RSVPs for our meetups are in our Meetup Group, but this might change in the future. Best to be in our Slack channel or on our email list.
Hope to see you at an upcoming meetup!
Austin Study/Work Group. Triumph Cafe, Thu @ 7pm. IRC: #drupal-austin
A weekly get together to work on Drupal projects. Bring a laptop and your dreams, then get em done!
At the moment: Thursdays, 7pm (except when another Austin Drupal event is the same day)
Triumph Cafe
3808 Spicewood Springs Road
Austin, TX 78759
IRC: #drupal-austin
See you there!
Read moreDrupal Study/Work group is a go! Triumph Cafe, Thu @ 7pm. IRC: #drupal-austin
Hello,
Quick note on the study/work group last night. Jeff hosted us at the Triumph cafe and it was a great success.
6 Drupalers showed up, and we had some interesting side conversations along the way ("What's with OG Forums?", "What's with hook_menu doing this?"), but most of the time we were heads down working on our stuff - which was great. Benji and I got started on a D5->D6 upgrade - yikes!
Jeff led a discussion on the venue, time, and format. I think the consensus was "This worked. Repeat. Remain fluid". So see you there next week :-)
Read moreThursday night Austin Drupal Study/Work Group?
Hi,
At the last Drupal User Group in Austin, there was talk about coders getting together to work on their own projects Thursday nights. I haven't seen anything here or in the meetup.
Is anyone else interested in meeting up on Thursdays for some quiet study/work time on Drupal projects?
If you are, let's pick a venue and do it!
Mike
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The Austin Drupal Newbie Meetup
When: May 26th 7:00pm 9:00pm
Where: 501 E. 32nd Street, Austin, Texas 78705
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Drupal-Newbies-Meetup/events/16506861/
This month Brandon Williams will give a presentation on taking a .PSD file (photoshop) and converting it into a Drupal theme. We will also talk about differences between Drupal 6 and 7 and as usual, we will try to solve any current issues or problems you may be having.
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Austin Drupal Users April meetup
When: Wednesday, April 20th, 7pm
Where: Cospace (911 W Anderson Ln)
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Drupal-Users-Group/events/16247702
At this month's meetup, Jeff Cicolani will be talking about setting up multisite for your Drupal sites, i.e. running multiple sites with the same code base but different databases.
More from Jeff:
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When would you rather have DrupalCamp Austin?
Drupal 10th Anniversary iPad
This is sort of a "forsale" posting but it's of special interest to Drupal folks.
I won this specially engraved iPad at DrupalCon in Chicago (March 10th, 2011)
But I already have an iPad so I'm selling it.
It has a large, custom, Drupal 10th anniversary
logo engraved on the back (image here: http://goo.gl/ZAvAW)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330543021094
J
Read moreWSOD on Drupal 7
I have encountered the White Screen of Death (WSOD) whenever I try to add any content on http://nullifynow.net. It is discussed at http://drupal.org/node/1089142#comment-4204372
If anyone has encountered and solved this problem I would appreciate some help.
Read moreConfiguring phpmyadmin to show Drupal 7 BLOB data
Hi,
This took me a bit to figure out and I thought I'd share it. Hopefully someone else finds it useful.
Drupal 7 serializes php data into long-blob fields, instead of just saving strings like in D6. This is great, because now D7 can store and retrieve arrays, not just strings. Hurray!
Unfortunately, out-of-the-box phpMyAdmin does not show this data as text, it just shows [BLOB - 14B]. Meh!
Read moreAustin Drupal Users February Meetup - 2/16 @ Cospace
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 – 7:00 PM
Where: Cospace (911 W Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78757)
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Drupal-Users-Group-Meetup/events/16516675/
This Wednesday Chris Ruppel from Four Kitchens will be giving the low down about Drush Make and talking about his awesome new project DrushMake.me, a click-and-point tool for quickly creating custom Drupal installations.
Details
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Ways to add cck units label to fields
Is there another way besides hook_form_alter to add units labels to cck form fields? Units like "kWh", "kWh/month" or even pre-field like "$".
(I keep including "Central Texas" in these little Qs, but I wonder if they've all switched to Joomla out there .. ;) )
Thanks
-Bronius
Southwest Drupal Summit Starts This Thursday!
Hi Everyone,
If you have already registered for the Southwest Drupal Summit, we look forward to seeing you this coming week, January 27th & 28th!
If you have not registered yet, there is still time, and we have room for you. I'm not sure how long that will last, so please don't wait if you plan to attend.
Register online at http://swdrupalsummit.com
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Pre-Summit Drupal SEO Hands-On Training - Houston, Texas
On Wednesday, January 26th (the day before the Southwest Drupal Summit) from 8am-5pm CST, Volacci's own Josh Ward will conduct an interactive training session that will cover essential Drupal SEO tools such as:
- On-Page Optimization
- Keyword Research
- Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Essential Drupal SEO Modules
Details
When: January 26th from 8am to 5pm
SW Drupal Summit Schedule posted
We have posted the schedule for SW Drupal Summit: http://swdrupalsummit.com/content/schedule
The SW Drupal Summit will offer 4 tracks plus tutorial sessions, all loaded with valuable information about Drupal and supporting web technologies, as well as business insight from leaders in the field.
Read moreDrupal 6 Form API - setting #size doesn't seem to set for me?
For some reason my module's form's textfield is not obeying the size => 4 I'm asking it to be. Am I overlooking something (again)?
In addition to the whole code below, see the attached screenshot...
<?php
function project_calc_concrete_calculator() {
$form['instructions'] = array(
'#prefix' => '
',
'#value' => t('Enter concrete slab dimensions'),
'#suffix' => '
Helpful Link
My Drupal mentor, Tim Miller of It Integrity in Australia, has put a step-by-step process online for registering at search engines with XML sitemap. It's a complex process and I know he spent quite a few hours working it out.
If you're working Drupal and SEO, you might like this.
I highly recommend SpyJournal as a great blog for all sorts of tech tips, btw. He's very good with Excel.
http://www.spyjournal.biz/node/1239
Read moreSouthwest Drupal Summit - Houston Jan 27-28, 2011
If you don't know, now you know: Drupal meet-up extraordinaire at the end of this month in Houston, Texas. It's a Thurs/Friday event, so your manager will happily foot the bill for this work-related training. Good for you, good for your organization:
http://www.swdrupalsummit.com/
There will be balloons, prizes, and buttered popcorn*.
I checked the Central Texas g.d.o group and didn't see a related posting..
- I am not an official for the summit, and I can neither confirm nor deny whether there will be balloons, prizes, or buttered popcorn.
See you in Houston!
-Bronius
Hosting solutions in Austin?
Anyone have a suggestion on a local place to use for hosting? I think I've out grown hostmonster. They are cheap, but I've learned unlimited actually means restricted. My site is slow and they constantly apply cpu throttling on my site.
I really don't have a lot of traffic yet. I just want my site to be faster and want to find a local drupal friendly place.
Read moreAustin Drupal 7 Release Party
Finally! Drupal 7 is on it's way.
Like all our fellow Drupalers around the world, we'll be hosting a party in Austin to celebrate this momentous occasion.
We'll be announcing hosting this shindig downtown in the Boom Boom Room at Union Park.
The Boom Boom Room is a great place for conversation -- and they have a great bar with happy hour prices:
