Welcome to Drupal Colorado! You're in the right place to connect with the Colorado Drupal community. Feel free to use this space to connect with other individuals in the community, suggest opportunities to get together (impromptu contrib night anyone?) or find information about upcoming events.
Find us on Slack
You can find us in the #drupal-colorado channel of the Drupal Slack organization. For more information about the Drupal Slack organization, check out the Slack page on drupal.org.
Monthly meetings
The Central Denver meetup (DBUG) takes place on the 4th Tuesday of the month at Galvanize Denver - Platte.
Individual meetings are posted in this group, as well as on the Drupal Colorado Meetup page. For more information, or if you're interested in speaking, reach out to James Nettik (@jnettik) in the #drupal-colorado Slack Channel.
DrupalCamp Colorado
The DrupalCamp Colorado (DCCO) organizers meet every Monday at 4pm MT. Meeting details and notes are always posted in the issue queue of the DCCO project on drupal.org. Anyone is welcome to join! For more information, reach out to Nick Switzer (@switzern) in the #drupal-colorado Slack channel.
Stay in touch
Our monthly Drupal Colorado newsletter goes out the third Tuesday of every month and is a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Colorado community. Sign up here.
Discussions and wikis
January 28th 2020 Show and Tell Topics
In next week's meetup description it said to post in the DBUG Group what you want to show.
So, here's a thread to gather that.
I'll start.
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Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, January 28th, 2019
Happy New Year! Let's kick off 2020 with a Show 'n Tell. Bring anything fun you're working on (Drupal or otherwise) to share with the group. Also feel free to bring anything you're struggling to figure out and we can help figure it out as a group! With the holidays bringing us Drupal 8.8, there's plenty of new and exciting things for us to look forward to in the New Year!
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Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Are you interested in contributing more to Drupal core or contrib modules but the prospect of writing and running tests is holding you back? Or, are you already writing tests but because local setup is so tough, you lean mostly on your CI infrastructure? Join me for a practical walk-through of local testing. We'll focus on Drupal 8 and phpunit, and do some live-demos of unit, kernel and functional tests.
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Responsive and NextGen Images in Drupal 8
- Who knows what the core Responsive Image module is?
- Who uses core’s Responsive Image module?
- Who uses NextGen image formats (webp)?
- Summary: Image styles, Responsive Image Styles, NextGen Images
- Go through current image styles
- Image is uploaded, Drupal responds to certain settings in the image formatter, then displays image on page
- Go through basic responsive image setup
- Responsive images allows you to switch out image styles based on the browsers width and density (retina)
- Breakpoints yml file
- Go through NextGen image setup
Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
Prior to Drupal 8, the most common way that a developer would make sure her/his module was extensible was by adding a "hook". While Drupal 8 still makes use of hooks in many places, there is a better way to do things. Actually there are two better ways to do things:
- Writing an Event
- Making your module "pluggable"
In this presentation Marc Isaacson (vegantriathlete) will give you an overview of the Plugin API. If you're looking to learn about writing an event dispatcher, you'll have to go to a different talk.
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Thanks, Denver / Colorado group admins - and welcome jnettik and switzern as admins
Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
We all have seen the Responsive Image module in Drupal 8, but who has taken the time to enable it and dive in to it’s benefits? Responsive Images in Drupal means loading images that have been specifically sized for different media breakpoints, ultimately improving the performance of your website across all devices. These Drupal Core improvements, next-gen image formats, along with several important contributing modules make image optimization in Drupal a new best practice and now make your website faster than ever!
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Unlock Your Tech Career Success: Elevate Your Performance and Value
Soft-skills - Psssh! Who needs them?
To get better at being developers and tech in general, we need to be more than just experts with Drupal. We need to be better listeners - better team members - and at managing our work. These things (self-awareness, listening skills, and the art of influence, to name a few) are overlooked in favor of more and more tech knowledge.
You need tech knowledge - but without these other skills, it won’t get you where you want to go.
Join us for a paid workshop, September 12th at the beautiful new WeWork The Hub location in RiNo (3601 Walnut St).
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
This month we're going to look back on DrupalCamp Colorado 2019. Together we'll discuss the things we liked about the camp, and the things we think could be improved. Bring your feedback and help make 2020's camp even better!
Pizza and socializing officially start at 6:30 p.m. Discussion and presentations start at 7. At 5:30 there will be an unofficial Happy Hour at the bar in the venue lobby. Signup here or on the Meetup.com page. Add a comment if you have a question or want to share something!
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, July 23nd, 2019
Productizing Drupal is hard. Making it a usable platform for a customer base while utilizing the powerful customization features and creating a maintainable code base is harder. As a software lead, junior developer, product manager or director of a major company, it is necessary to strike the balance of delivering software on time and providing something customers want.
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