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Long Island Drupal Meetup - Feburary 16th
Happy Valentines day! This months meetup is on the calendar. We will be having an open exploration session around the composer dependency manger. Some things I'd like to explore:
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Using Composer to create a Drupal project.
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Using Composer to bring in contributed modules.
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Possibly using composer to run tests.
Our meetup has shifted a day to Thursday this week. Next month we will be back to our normal time.
See you there!
Read moreLong Island Drupal Meetup - January 18th
Better late then never, our first meetup of 2017 is on the calendar!
There are some really interesting development workflows emerging with the use of composer, which is the popular PHP dependency manager.
I'd like to explore how to use this to setup projects and some of the tools around composer for bringing in initial modules and such. Similar to what Drush Make does.
Location:
LaunchPad Huntington
315 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Huntington, NY
Best parking is in the back off of Gerard St.
Date / Time:
Jan 18th 7pm - 9pm
2016 Long Island Drupal Holiday Bash!
Join us at our normal time, Dec 21st from 7pm - 9pm for the end of year Drupal holiday bash! We have a fun night planned with a small informational session and giveaways. 2016 was an exciting year for Drupal and web development as a whole. We'd like to have a "year in review" and present some ideas for the year to come.
We will be meeting at Launchpad in Huntington:
315 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Huntington, NY
Best parking is in the back off of Gerard St.
Date / Time:
Dec 21st 7pm - 9pm
The plan for the evening:
7:00pm - 7:30pm - Introductions and Networking
Read moreLong Island Drupal Meetup - November 16th
Our November meetup is on the calendar. We are meeting on our normal Wednesday.
I'd like to explore a "contrib" format. If you are interested in exploring ways to contribute to open source then this will be of interest to you. Lets take an issue out on Drupal.org and discuss and possibly implement a solution, together.
Some things we will review:
- Identifying novice issues in the issue queue.
- Reviewing the state of issues.
- How to develop a patch using git.
Long Island Drupal Meetup - October 18th
**Please RSVP via our meetup page***
http://www.meetup.com/Long-Island-Drupal-Group/events/234649449/
Our October meetup is on the calendar. We are meeting one day earlier this month on a Tuesday. For those that usually can't make Wednesday you are in luck!
As an aside, LI Tech Day will just be ending around the time we are getting there. If you are interested in attending the largest Tech Expo on LI check it out here:
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Introduction to Web Site Building with Drupal - NYC - October 27 - FREE TRAINING
During this introductory class you will learn just how much you can do by installing and configuring Drupal's contributed modules. In the process, you'll learn about:
- best practices in Drupal project planning
- Drupal's inherent tools and subsystems
- custom content types
- Views
- taxonomy
- search tools
- URL aliasing
- module selection
- customized site administration
- …and more!
And you won't write a stitch of code.
Read moreEnd of Summer BBQ & Social
We will be hosting a end of summer get together at Belmont State Park on September 18th starting at 1:00pm.
Our goal is to get a few of the emerging technology related groups in Long Island together for some food, drinks, and laughs.
This is potluck style event, bring a little something to share. Food, drinks, gadgets... :)
Some details on time/location:
Start Time: 1:00pm EST
Location Details: http://nysparks.com/parks/88/details.aspx
If you plan on coming please fill out the form below:
See you there!
Read moreLong Island Drupal Meetup - August 17th
Better late then never! Come down to Mary Carolls tomorrow night for a drink and a discussion around Drupal, web development, and open source here on Long Island.
Do you have a problem you are banging your head against? Maybe we can help.
Some of the topics that are hot on my list currently:
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Drupal 8 Theming - Selecting subthemes in the current landscape.
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Drupal 8 Content Workflows
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ReactJS front ends. Learning alot but just hitting the tip here. Transpiling ES6, FLUX, redux, etc.
Location:
Mary Carolls
1 Clinton Ave, Huntington, NY
What Drupal 8 Means for Your Organization's Future
Drupal 8 is the most powerful, flexible and easy to scale web experience platform ever built, how can you benefit from all it has to offer?
Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through what Drupal 8 means for your organization.
In this class you’ll learn how to:
Read moreLong Island Drupal Meetup - July 20th
Our July meetup is quickly approaching. We will be at the same spot, same time. I you are interested in web development, content management systems, and software development in general come down and learn with us!
Our agenda is as follows:
7:00 - 7:30: Introductions and Networking
7:30 - 8:00: Beginner Topic - Let's openly review some of the basics of content management and discuss the current landscape of solutions.
8:00 - 8:30: Pizza!!!
8:30 - 9:00: Intermediate Topic - Testing your solutions. A look at the various tools we have to test our software.
Location:
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