The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.
Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.
• Event organizing: http://www.meetup.com/drupalhk
• Technological discussion: https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk
• Business connection: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/?gid=6644792
• General sharing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/drupalhk
Special Thank you for Johan Rautio, design the Hong Kong Drupal User Group logo.
O'Reilly's Using Drupal book
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515805/
I gave the book a flip through at a book store, it's pretty good for beginners to intermediate level users, you can simply follow each chapter step-by-step to build different sites with Drupal.
The electronic version includes 3 different formats with no DRM. I think I'm going to buy it... but then I see there's a "Buy 2 get the 3rd free" thing on there... so I thought I'd just ask on here. Anyone wants to buy an e-book? Check out O'Reilly's catalog.
Read moreVirtual Code Sprint on Internationalization in Drupal Core
http://groups.drupal.org/node/18443
For Drupal 7. It has a few links on documentations and stuff... if you're interested in i18n, you can go through them. I've signed up for it and see what I can do to help. Hopefully I'll learn something, and can do a presentation on my experience for all of you.
(I'll be here in Seattle for the 1st code sprint session and then I'll be back in HK for the 2nd. See u guys soon.)
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good/bad web hosting for Drupal?
Can people share their own experience with the web hosting providers they have tried before? Which ones are good, which ones to avoid, which ones are easy to hack, which ones have really bad support?
Read moreHow to install and config Drupal 6 via CVS and SVN on hostgrown.com
Last updated by cloneofsnake on Sun, 2009-04-12 14:19
Thanks to Dave for giving us the tutorial on how to use CVS and SVN with Drupal. A lot of the info here were provided by Dave during HKDUG's 2nd official meeting.
John's hostgrown.com has a security measure where files cannot have permissions above 755. This gave us a few headaches when installing Drupal as a lot of the files have 775. Here are the steps I took to install D6.
1) Install / Update from CVS
How to checkout Drupal core from CVS:
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Drupal Dinner (Hotpot in Kowloon City)
Let's have a hotpot dinner this Tuesday. Nick knows a good place in Kowloon City (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=793).
There is a map on the OpenRice page, someone please put the English address in a comment.
We'll meet at the restaurant at 7:00PM, Nick can you call and make a reservation if you think we'll need it?
Wives are invited... I think Nick's wife might come along so feel free to bring yours too!
This will most likely be my last Drupal event in Hong Kong, as I'm leaving on 22 December.
Read moreAgile Lego Game tonight
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35617130115
I'm sure a lot of you are already subscribed to Agile HK's events, ya? So who's going to tonight's Lego thing.
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When was the last time you played with Lego? How about Lego and Agile together? This could be your chance… In our next Agile session Jenny Wong and I will lead a session whose goal is to give a hands on introduction to iterative Agile development with…Lego (http://www.lego.com)! This will give participants hands on experience to Estimation, Signup, Development, Showcasing and Retrospectives.
Online: Drupal 6 Lesson On Nov 23rd: Dive Into Drupal!
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16640
Drupal Dojo is one of the groups I subscribe to, tomorrow 11am PST they're having an online tutorial session. Unfortunately, that's 3 am Monday morning for us! May be some of you are interested?
They will have screencast recordings available afterwards, so don't worry if you can't make it.
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Translation CCK synchronization
Anyone pulling out their hair over multilingual sites should take a look at this:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/making-attachments-appear-across-transl...
Read moreSOHO Life - HKDUG Group Project
SOHO Life has a really nice office in Sheung Wan, literally a minutes walk from exit C. The rooms have projectors and wifi access, it's perfect for our meetings.
Nick and I have arranged to work on the SOHO Life website, and hope to complete it before December 6, 2008 (the day of http://openeverything.hk/2008/) since they are the venue sponsor for that event.
Read moreOpenEverything.hk - HKDUG sandbox and Soholife.hk site rebuild with Drupal
We've talked about the idea of having a sandbox server where all of us can mess around & put what we've learned to the test. At our 2nd meeting, I had spoken about getting SOHOlife English Training Centre to sponsor HKDUG with their venue and their web space.
Read moreSecond Official HKDUG meeting
I've confirmed w/ Antonio and Karim and we are definitely having a meeting this week! Just wanted to start an official thread so people will know. Karim & Tony, I put down Thursday night @ 7 like last time, please make changes to it if you guys had planned for another date / time.
Karim will be the main presenter, he is going to talk about:
- JW FLV Player with RSS playlist.
- JW javascript API event listener to jQuery.
- jQuery media, add inline media in content.
- jCarousel from item list.
New HKDUG Homepage
Using the og_panels functionality on g.d.o, I've setup a new homepage for the HKDUG. Check it out and tell me what you think.
Cheers,
John
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http://www.johndbritton.com
Running Drupal from CVS
Karim had mentioned that it is possible to run Drupal from CVS to ease the task of upgrading. I'm wondering if someone knows of a good tutorial on how to do this or if someone could write one up.
Read moreHong Kong Group Administration
Posted on both the Hong Kong and g.d.o maintenance group for transparency.
I'm a member of the Hong Kong Drupal User Group (http://groups.drupal.org/hongkong) and would like to request administrative privileges for the group. Recently we've seen increased activity and I'd like to use the og_panels functionality of g.d.o to give our group a better looking front page. I've tried contacting the current group admin, but he/she has the contact form disabled.
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http://www.johndbritton.com
Any meetup soon? question for Views + Panels 2 + CCK and theming the output
Hey, any Views and Panels 2 guru around, got a couple of questions for them.
for views: I want to know how "argument" works, seems it's quite powerful, yet I couldn't find any relevant post in drupal.org
for panels 2:
- I wonder if I could use it to layout every blog node, and blog node alone, I know I can use panels to do "override" of individual nodes, but I want a panels layout for all the "blog node type", as the content of the layout may change alot, I want to have this panels solution over the page-node-blog.tpl.php theming one.
Informal Meeting Thursday Aternoon
The Creative Commons HK launch was today, I just got back from the lecture. While I was there I saw nick and Karim.
Nick and I plan to meet up some time on Thursday afternoon (1 or 2pm?) for an informal Q&A, I'm going to try and help him out with the project he's working on. If anyone else is interested in attending let us know and we'll pick a convenient place for everyone.
Read moreQues on User Profile, multisite & best practices
I originally planned to build my restaurant site and a blog for my family on the same Drupal codebase, I thought it would've been easier to build all the different content types, views, user profiles fields... etc, all in one place. Then, I started to do some research on multisite, and there are some really good posts on how to install Drupal in one place, then 2 sites folders outside of the Drupal folder for added security...
Read moreHKDUG hands-on lab
On Saturday we will be hanging out at Kosmo Coffee. Unlike our meetup last week there's no presentation and no structure. We'll just be sitting around with our laptops asking each other questions and giving answers.
Some topics that people want input on include:
* CCK
* Views
* Setting up a sandbox site
* Whatever else you come with
Kosmo Coffee is in Lan Kwai Fong in Central. For a map see here:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=10291
Casual hands-on meeting and setting up a sandbox
Hi y'all,
Just trying to gauge the interests for a more casual, hands-on meeting this weekend...
Since Dave's presentation on CCK & Views2, I've been trying to work with the 2 incredible modules and I'm sure most of you are doing the same. I thought may be we can show each other our work, and may be learn from each other?
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