Drupalcon Boston 2008 mashup demo
This is the 5-minute "video from the future" demo presented by Dries in his State of Drupal keynote presentation at Drupalcon Boston 2008. The video demonstrates some of the mashup capabilities of an RDF and SPARQL-enabled Drupal as envisioned by Dries for the upcoming Drupal 7.x release. The version of the demo below includes the original narration by Ben Lavender (the audio from Dries's actual presentation is also available - the RDF material starts after the 52m:30s marker).
New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site
Drupal Modules is a community-powered Drupal module review system I've been working on for about a year now. I'm happy to announce the site is finally open to the public!
Here's a brief list of what you can do on the site:
- Rate and review any module
- Compare modules to see which has the best features, documentation, etc
- Check how many downloads a module is getting
- Easily search modules and reviews for keywords
- Get automatic recommendations for similar modules
- And more!
Theming handbook for 6
Hello, I'm just posting here to let everyone know that the bulk of the new theming handbook is up. Most of it has been rewritten and reorganized. I hope it is accurate and clear enough to get everyone familiar with the theming system.
It's still missing sections on sub-theming (which can get really fancy BTW). I hope to get a few solid explanations and illustrations on the possibilities. Engineless themes and theme engine sections are not there yet but I don't think it's too critical.
JavaScripting could use some help too. I hope someone can fill that in.
Read morePotential RDF use cases for Drupal
Following up on my previous post introducing the in-progress RDF API for Drupal 6.x, I'm going to be, bit by bit, posting some of the materials that I've earlier put together internally for the project this is being developed for. Development of this project is supported through M.C. Dean and MakaluMedia on behalf of their clients.
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DabbleDB demo
Six months ago, Dries linked to this DabbleDB demo from his blog. He hailed it as a vision for what CCK and Views could ultimately be. The demo is positively breathtaking in the flexibility of fields to morph and change. Further, the usability of the UI is outstanding. Everyone in these group really ought to watch the demo, and discuss what small changes we can make to get closer to this.
Some starting points:
- Can we design a flow whereby node_import module could suggest and then create the needed CCK fields to hold the incoming data?
- Can we add a metric ton of flexibility to CCK whereby we can take a field and move it into a new content type (i.e. the demo moves Person into a 1st class object) and move fields (and data) between content types (in the demo, the Company field moves over the new Person 'content type').
- Could we get a View created automatically for each content type that has the right exposed filters automatically? And then a UI which progressively shows those exposed filters in the 'query by example' method in the demo?
- The demo has a notion of saving ad hoc queries. Our equivalent is Views Saved Searches. Should this be a core feature of Views, or otherwise better integrated?
Drupal 6 Release Party Today
We apologize for the completely last minute notice. But it's Friday night, and you know you were going to play with Drupal 6 over the weekend, so bring your laptop, and we can all have a drink and celebrate all things great about Drupal 6. The drinks will be free, it's convenient to get to, and hey, it's on the weekend, and it's not on valentine's day. 4 out 5 ain't bad.
Located in downtown San Francisco conveniently located between BART and Caltrain means it's easy to get a bullet from Gilroy and San Jose to SF, or Richmond, BayPoint, Freemont, Berkeley, or Pleasanton via Bart.
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Achieving Optimal MySQL Performance For Drupal
MySQL AB and KernelTrap.org's Jeremy Andrews are partnering up to offer an online presentation titled "Achieving Optimal MySQL Performance For Drupal". Aiming to provide a better understanding of how to properly monitor and tune your MySQL database, the online Webinar will take place on Thursday, January 31st, 2008, at 16:00 UTC (11:00 am EST). The presentation will last 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and answers. You can sign up for the free event here.
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Distributed Marketing coordination -- aka delicious etc. tagging with "Drupalmarketing"
I just posted a link to my delicious account on Dooce, a very high traffic blog, switching to Drupal. It's a great case study of a high profile, high traffic blog going Drupal.
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Moving JS to the Bottom of the Page
I've been using yslow to review a few sites and always leave one last step out: move javascript to the bottom of the page
So, on a test site I just moved my
<?php
print $scripts
?>
Proposed Solutions to Shortening the Node Add/Edit Form
Please Start a thread for each solution you have and if possible, comments to that solution can be on the same thread (the reply link on the post should work for that)
If you have a new solution, please start a new thread in the story (The comment box at the bottom starts new threads while the reply link (I think the reply option should a button instead of a link) keeps the next post in the same thread.)
(scratch all that, there isn't an option to move or delete misplaced posts. The thread follows on from Accordian Node Add/Edit Form.)
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