Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself and join our new Slack group.
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:
Registration is open for SW Drupal Summit
We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.
Read moreNode quick look feature like target.com?
Can anyone think of a method to implement a "quicklook" feature with any of drupal's current modules?
http://piperlime.gap.com/browse/categorySearch.do?cid=19970
Thanks,
Wes
Austin Drupal Newbie Meetup
Join us for the last Drupal Newbie meetup for 2010
http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Drupal-Newbies-Meetup/
Read moreDrupal for Module Developers (Houston)
This workshop will take you through all the necessary steps to begin creating your own custom modules. Once you understand how Drupal works, we’ll begin a step-by-step process to developing a custom module. Hooks, databases, and module performance are just some of the topics to cover. The best part? We’ll share all the tips and tricks we’ve learned over the years to allow you to learn from our past mistakes.
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