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Webinar: Optimizing Drupal: Performance Tips and Benchmarking
This webinar by Zend may be of use to some of you who are trying to get better performance out of Drupal.
http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/event/webinar-optimizing-drupal-perf...
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DrupalCorn meeting - 29Nov10 - Views 3 & Apache Solr
This month Stephan Bridges of Iowa State University Department of Economics will lead us on a tour of Views 3 and how she integrates that with Apache Solr.
As always we will take the first hour for Q&A so bring you questions.
See you all then.
Welcome to the Iowa Drupal Users Group (DrupalCorn)
We are an open group of Drupal users in Ames, Iowa willing to freely share knowledge about Drupal.
Uploading Soundslides Presentation Folder
Soundslides http://www.soundslides.com/ is desktop software that will generate a Flash slideshow from a set of images and an MP3 file. It seems to be pretty popular with news organizations and communications offices around here. The software creates a "publish_to_web" folder which contains the swf and several directories of resources (sized images, mp3 files, settings, etc). What is the best way to allow a user upload this folder to the server and attach it to a node?
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DrupalCorn meeting - 25Oct10 - OpenPublish
This month we will be exploring the topic of Drupal Distributions. Specifically we will take an indepth look at OpenPublish a Drupal Distribution for publishers struggling to keep up with rapidly expanding technology and user expectations. With features support everything from basic news coverage needs to Web 2.0 trends, social publishing and topic hubs.
As always we will take the first hour for Q&A so bring you questions.
Hope to see you all then.
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Looking for a good slideshow solution
I am trying to implement a slideshow for the front page of a website.
I spent a few days trying to work with various versions of views slideshow ddblock, which turned into a cluster better forgotten.
My hope is to create a block around 650px wide by 330px high.
The object has 5 parts:
- background image
- destination to send to if clicked
- citation of where the image came from
- Header
- text block
Test D7 beta for free
Hi, Drupal 7 beta and Ubuntu 10.10 launch back to back, how exciting. Ubuntu has a thing this release where you can try out Ubuntu server on EC2 for free for an hour. The question is, what would you do with EC2 for one hour?
Thanks to the D7 release team, now there is an answer to that question! So I blogged about how to set up D7 quickly for testing on the EC2. http://www.bearfruit.org/2010/10/14/test-drupal-7-beta-for-free/
It's quite easy, you don't have to have ever used EC2 before. My first try I had D7 running in about 6 min. I have to say, the improvements are awesome, I can't wait to start using it. If you care to, you can retweet my announcement.
Read moreLooking for view slideshow ddblock themes
I am trying to use view slideshow ddblock (http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow_ddblock) to build a home page slideshow. The module seems awesome and it will fulfill everything I need to get my slideshow done in time for my deadline of tomorrow.
There is one rub, the site that say hosts the documentation and the free themes that would make my life much easier, it is down:
http://ddblock.myalbums.biz
Is there anyone out there using view slideshow ddblock that has any of the free themes or the zip (vsd-upright10-60-V1-2.zip)? If I had an example theme it would be quite helpful.
Read moreIowa Drupalers in San Fran. looking to talk Drupal on Thursday Night.
Hey San Francisco!
I run the Iowa Drupal Users Group (DrupalCorn) http://groups.drupal.org/iowa and find myself in San Fran. on Business. Anyone interested in Talking Drupal on Thursday Night 14Oct10. Could use a recommendation on where to eat as well. Hope to hear from you. Thanks.
Interests:
We've got 6 Mercury (Pantheon) instances running now, Aegir, integration with Marketo/SalesForce. My first Drupal site was with version 4.5. I average a site a month. I know the contributed modules like the best of them.
Looking for Iowa/Nebraska based Drupal Website design
Does anyone know of any good Iowa/Nebraska based Drupal website design shops? I am looking for a website designer for a Iowa based business and we are considering the possibility of using drupal.
Thanks,
Jeff
Openlayers + Rules. Anyone done it? Any guidelines?
New to Openlayers, OL Proximity, and Rules. They all seem to be working.
Would like to notify users when nodes are published / updated based on geographic proximity, i.e. node is published with a location within 50 miles of a user. It is for a missing pet web site.
Anyone with experience integrating the two? Am going to try to figure out today. Thanks.
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