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This group is for Drupalistas in and around Fort Lauderdale and the Broward County, Florida area to connect and get to know each other. Welcome!
If you'd like to host a future meetup or event, please post a discussion in our group. If you're not already a member, you can create or log into your Drupal.org account and click the Join link.
Cities and towns in Broward County include Coconut Creek, Cooper City, Coral Springs, Dania Beach, Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Lauderdale Lakes, Lauderhill, Lighthouse Point, Margate, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Parkland, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Sunrise, Tamarac, West Park, Weston and Wilton Manors.
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Florida DrupalCamp 2019
Florida DrupalCamp is an annual conference that brings together web developers from all over the world to learn, network and discuss web development and the Drupal content management system.
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Drupal Relativity vs. Paragraphs, and No Code Content Migration - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed November 14th, 2018
This month, we spent most of the meetup discussing Drupal Relativity and the Paragraphs module. Doug Vann has a lot of experience using the Paragraphs module, so he presented different scenarios for using the module and Jay talked about implementing them using the Drupal Relativity module instead.
Read moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed November 14th, 2018 - Relativity vs. Paragraphs
This month Jay Epstein will be discussing "Relativity vs. Paragraphs" If you think BattleBots is intense, wait until you see Drupal Relativity vs. using the Paragraphs module.
If you want to attend the meetup remotely, please RSVP with a comment saying you plan on attending remotely. On the day of the meetup, we will provide the Skype link to those that have RSVPed remotely on Meetup. For details on getting the link on the day of the meetup, go to https://www.meetup.com/broward-drupal/events/wsdklpyxpbsb/
Read moreIntegrate React or Angular code into your Drupal site with the Progressively Decoupled Blocks module - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed October 10th, 2018
This month, Doug Vann presented how to integrate ReactJS and AngularJS code into your Drupal site with the Progressively Decoupled Blocks module. Instead of single page application, think of single block application.
Read moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed October 10th, 2018 - Integrate React or Angular code into your Drupal site with the Progressively Decoupled Blocks module
This month Doug Vann will be presenting "Integrate React or Angular code into your Drupal site with the Progressively Decoupled Blocks module." In this short demonstration, Doug Vann will show off how to use the Progressively Decoupled Blocks module to place react code on a Drupal page as a block in any region of your choice. Then he will show how he's using this to build Southern California Edison's new website which launches later this month.
Read moreIntroduction to Drupal 8 Theming - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed September 12th, 2018
This month, Dan Denysenko presented "Introduction to Drupal 8 theming." The presentation focused on theming anatomy and tools of the trade for themers.
Dan started his presentation deconstructing the Bartik theme to determine the basic building blocks of the theme in Drupal 8. He went on to show us how to build a theme, putting on his themer new to Drupal hat, using common tools use by themers outside the Drupal community and applying them to Drupal 8 theming. Here are some of the tools discussed during the presentation:
IDE (PHPStorm, VB Code…)
YAML + asset libraries
Read moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed September 12th, 2018 - Introduction to Drupal 8 theming
This month Dan Denysenko will be presenting "Introduction to Drupal 8 theming." Topics include theme anatomy (i.e. not framework specific) and theming tools of the trade.
If you want to attend the meetup remotely, please RSVP with a comment saying you plan on attending remotely. On the day of the meetup, we will provide the Skype link to those that have RSVPed remotely on Meetup. For details on getting the link on the day of the meetup, go to https://www.meetup.com/broward-drupal/events/wsdklpyxmbqb/
Read moreRecursive relationships w/ breadcrumbs & URL aliases using chained entity tokens - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - August 8, 2018
This month, Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview) talked about Recursive relationships w/ breadcrumbs & URL aliases using chained entity tokens (think of it as Relativity squared).
Jay started out the meetup by talking about chained entity tokens and how they can be used to track everything on your site.
Read moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed August 8th, 2018 - Recursive relationships with breadcrumbs and URL aliases using chained entity tokens
This month Jay Epstein (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) presents "Recursive relationships with breadcrumbs and URL aliases using chained entity tokens." The title says it all! Come find out how the Relativity Data Model is evolving.
If you want to attend the meetup remotely, please RSVP with a comment saying you plan on attending remotely. On the day of the meetup, we will provide the Skype link to those that have RSVPed remotely on Meetup. For details on getting the link on the day of the meetup, go to https://www.meetup.com/broward-drupal/events/wsdklpyxlblb/
Read moreOpen subject night: Bring your issues, questions, problems, thoughts & comments - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed July 11th, 2018
This month we answered everyone's questions. We spent the entire meetup asking and answering questions. Everyone that showed up had a question and they got it answered. Here is a summary of the topics discussed:
1) Security (see link from Jay: https://www.optasy.com/blog/these-are-15-best-drupal-security-modules-wo...)
2) Hosting choices (e.g. Acquia, Pantheon, Platform.sh)
3) Raspberry Pi (https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-finds/2018/07/12/everything-you-need...)
4) React JS
