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
Calling all intermediate/expert Drupal and PHP developers to join us in fighting homelessness!
Calling all advanced and intermediate Drupal and PHP developers to join the fight against homelessness this Saturday June 23rd!
Help contribute to HopeOneSource’s (Hope with Love) nonprofit mission to increase access to local services for those in need which has helped reduce overall homelessness in DC since this Drupal based tech solution launched 2.5 years ago.
This code sprint will help ensure the platform scales beyond DC to help those who are most vulnerable in other regions gain access to the vital and often life-saving services and resource they need.
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Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Drupal’s Installation Profiles are a great way to speed up the initial development when starting a new project. Taking them a step further and releasing profiles as distributions can speed up the creation of entire new websites for both developers and non-technical users alike. Many large organizations have dozens of separate websites, spanning multiple technologies like Drupal or Wordpress or static pages, and need a quick and affordable way to create new websites for franchises or departments that share common pieces of custom functionality.
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, May 22th, 2018
This month, Joel Steidl will go over his solution for an automated door lock system built on Drupal 8. A friend had just purchased a Bed & Breakfast with an automated door lock system. He wanted to create a method to automatically send a guest their door keycode on the check-in date. Joel started wondering "can I build this in Drupal"? Yes!
Key Components:
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
With DrupalCon Nashville happening this month let's take a moment to process the big announcements, new techniques, and favorite sessions from the event. This is a great time for those who attended and those who couldn't to get together to talk about the future of Drupal.
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Component design has been a huge leap forward for content editors, giving great flexibility to what an editor can create with minimal knowledge of HTML. As site builders, we can combine components with WYSIWYG editors and expand on these tools to make specifically the WYSIWYG editor work harder for a content editor’s precise needs while providing specific markup to match designs.
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Drupal 8 Developer Immersion Course + Acquia Certification prep (8 weeks ONLINE)
Learn professional Drupal 8 development and get certified with the Drupal experts
- Are you eager to become proficient in using Drupal 8 to power ambitious projects?
- Do you want the experience to build skills and confidence to become an Acquia Certified Developer in Drupal 8?
Register now for our April Session & save $400 with early-bird:
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Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Drupal can seem like a daunting content management system, especially to those who are new to using Drupal. Drupal is also a great content management system, utilizing the web’s most important tools to make your website or application run efficiently. What better way to start the process of using Drupal than learning how to install Drupal? This month, Philip Stier will show the various ways to install and develop the Drupal content management system, so that you have a solid base for building the next famous website or application.
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Are you tired of using print, echo, var_dump (and variants like drupal_set_message and kint) to debug your code? It's time to level up your game and step into modern web development best practices! Sure, some of you may be using PHPStorm. But, why not learn how to do things with totally FOSS software and be confident that you've got a tool you can use on any project? In this presentation Marc Isaacson will demonstrate how we can use Vim, Vundle, and VDebug (along with XDebug) to set up an awesome FOSS IDE that allows us to do interactive source debugging.
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DrupalCamp Colorado 2018
Join us August 3-5, 2018, in downtown Denver, at the King Center on Auraria Campus for three days of knowledge sharing, and learning how to build, manage and launch ambitious digital experiences.
Read moreCentral Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Automated testing has a lot of benefits: reduced maintenance costs, improved software quality, sped up time to market, and preventing embarrassing regressions. In the long run having a test suite saves time and money for any project. In practice most small to medium size client projects are delivered without testing. Why? Because tests have the reputation to be expensive and difficult to write. With Behat this is no longer the case: tests can be written in plain English in a few minutes.
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