Welcome to the Metro Detroit, Michigan USA Users Group. There are a bunch of us in Metro Detroit learning and using drupal for fun and for work. If you are interested in chatting with others who use drupal in your area please join in the conversation as we learn and use drupal. Cheers.
Join us on IRC in #drupal-michigan
Are you a drupler in Michigan who uses IRC? If so, consider checking out the room #drupal-michigan on irc.freenode.net.
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#drupal-michigan on IRC
mfer has started a new IRC channel on freenode for all us Michigan-based Drupal nerds. Join us at #drupal-michigan today!
Read moreDrupalcamp Michigan 2011
Horray! After many years of many different organizations around the state dreaming about, yearning for, and working towards putting on a camp, the very first DrupalCamp Michigan will finally take place December 3, 2011 in Novi, MI. Camp Registration is now open and spots are extremely limited.
Register today at http://drupalcampmi.org and propose your sessions!
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IndyGiveCamp 2011
We're doing it again! http://indygivecamp.org
Last year we had THREE Drupal teams rocking and showing off how awesome Drupal is.
We have Matthew Connerton making a repeat appearance all the way from Asheville NC.
I'd love to see at least three teams again. We already have a lot of .net ppl volunteering and we have a LOT of charities fighting to win a free website or a major website upgrade. A couple of them are actually needed applications built for a desktop.
We need Designers [ppl who can push pixels around, make some buttons, logos, gradients, etc]
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MAMP, localhost and multi-site
I'm really hoping someone can help me get this right. I'm using MAMP on OX 10.6, have D7 in the htdocs folder in a floder called "civi".
I added a site folder at sites/devmydomain.org, plus folders for themes, modules and files.
Added the site.php file and added this line: $sites['devmydomain.org'] = 'devmydomain.org';
I've tried editing my private/etc/hosts with several paths with no change. If I should add a line, what should it be based on the above?
What happens is I go to http://localhost/civi/devmydomain.org, but I get redirected to http://localhost/civi/install.php
Read moreMDDUG Thursday 9/15/2011 8:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
We will have people from Detroit Lean Startup join us to mingle and talk about tech startups and customer development philosophy.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_108075972555061
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Notes on advanced Views
The following are some notes from the presentation on advanced Views. I have linked to the module (with the content type and view) used for the demonstration.
We started by creating a simple view using the Views UI, then we loaded it into our code so that we can modify it. For this example, we outlined four steps for using Views in the code:
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- Load the view
- The view object is loaded and stored in a variable
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- Build the view
- The view query is built based on all the options that the object contains
DrupalCamp Indy Nov. 5th 2011
What is a Drupalcamp?
A Drupal camp is a gathering of people who are interested in Drupal. The people come from a wide variety of backgrounds from someone who has never used Drupal to a core contributor. There will be session for why your business should use Drupal to how to build efficient servers that use Drupal.
If you are a web developer, run an IS department or are just curious about Drupal, come join us for some fun!
Who Is The Camp For?
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How well is Drupal calendar content recognized by search engines?
I have a client who's been using an ancient (by web standards) Perl-based calendar script program (called, dully enough, "CalendarScript", which hasn't been updated in years.
I've recently converted other parts of her site over to Drupal 6.x, and have been strongly recommending moving off of this old calendar script out of both security concerns and usability reasons. However, she's used it for many years and is reluctant to abandon it.
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July a2Drupal
Now that the heat wave is subsiding (slightly) and Art Fair is over, we know it is the middle of summer. We are towards the end of July, so that means it is already time for another a2 Drupal meeting!
This month, Mike Monan of TechReprieve has volunteered to give us a rundown "on the services module and how to use it." It should be interesting.
Location: Spark Central (downtown Ann Arbor)
Time: 7pm - 9pm
See you all soon!
Read moreJune a2Drupal
Hi everyone, this is your friendly day-of reminder that a2drupal is meeting tonight! As Mike noted last week, we are meeting at 7:00 at Spark Central in downtown Ann Arbor.
This month, we will be taking a look at Open Atrium, which is a really nifty project management tool similar to the ubiquitous Basecamp. If you are looking to have a fairly robust system without all of the clutter, then you should definitely come on down and check this out!
See you soon.
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June A2Drupal Meeting General Discussion
Our Ann Arbor group meeting is quickly approaching and I haven't seen an announcement yet, so...
The Ann Arbor Drupal Users Group will be meeting next monday 6/27 at 7pm at Ann Arbor SPARK Central, located at
330 East Liberty
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us. Open topic thread in comments of this event.
As always, we'll migrate over to Bar Louie afterwards for continued discussion...
Hope to see you all there...
Read moreMDDUG Thursday 6/23/2011 8:00pm-9:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_108075972555061
Read moreMDDUG Thursday 5/19/2011 8:00pm-9:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI 48303
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_108075972555061&ap=1
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Help with data import project
Hi! My name is Justin Coffey and I'm really looking for some ideas/suggestions on how to complete a task on a project I'm working on.
The site I'm developing is acting as a "web portal" for independent sales representatives. At this time, I'm working independent from the company but with their go ahead. As a result, my goal is to not ever directly link up with their servers or databases at their corporate headquarters.
Here is a brief example of the real world workflow:
Read moreApril a2Drupal Meet
Hi everyone, it is rapidly approaching the end of the month so as you may remember, that makes it time for another a2Drupal meet!
Come on by to Spark Central on April 25th at 7pm and join other Drupal folks as we commiserate on how paying taxes is far less fun than drinking a good beer.
See you soon.
Read moreMDDUG Tuesday 4/19/2011 8:00pm-9:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI 48303
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108075972555061
Read moreMarch a2Drupal
It is already the end of the month! That means it is a2Drupal time!
This month, Victor (and maybe others?) will be telling us all the exciting things that happened at DrupalCon Chicago, for those of us that couldn't make it.
When: 7pm
Date: March 28, 2011
Where: Spark Central
See you all then!
Read moreMDDUG Thursday 3/24/2011 7:30pm-9:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI 48303
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108075972555061
Read moreMDDUG Thursday 2/24/2011 7:30pm-9:00pm, Starbucks at NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy.
The Metro Detroit Drupal Users Group (MDDUG) monthly meeting will be getting together at
Starbucks
1470 W. Maple Road
Troy, MI 48303
This location is at the NorthWest corner of Crooks Road and Maple Road in Troy. It has free Wi-Fi service.
This is an informal and casual gathering, so feel free to bring your laptops and hang-out with us.
Facebook Group page - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108075972555061
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