Welcome to the New Jersey Drupal Group. Our goal is to bring together New Jersey based Drupalers for professional and social networking, knowledge sharing and to meet other like minded folks in our area who are passionate about Drupal!
NetBeans and Subversion
Tonight at the Northern NJ Drupal meetup in Panera, Robbie had mentioned Netbeans. Subversion also came up during the discussion.
I found a subversion plugin for NetBeans, in case anyone is interested.
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Northern NJ meetup - 01/13/10 7:30PM
Please come with questions, and we will do what we can to assist.
I can do a little site maintenance and administration (at the command line via Drush if people want a Drush 101)
As usual the meetup is held at the Panera off Route 17 North.
Hope to see everyone soon!
Robbie
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January Central NJ meet-up
Topic: Drupal 7 update followed by general discussion of what you are working on - come get input or help from fellow Drupal users. Show everyone your site or your code or talk about the challenges you are facing.
Location:
Institute for Advanced Study
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
IAS is very near Princeton University. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. Signs will be posted with the room assignment. It will most likely be the same conference room we usually use.
Read moreDecember Central NJ meet-up
Topic: General discussion of what you are working on - come get input or help from fellow Drupal users. Show everyone your site or your code or talk about the challenges you are facing.
Location:
Institute for Advanced Study
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
IAS is very near Princeton University. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. Signs will be posted with the room assignment. It will most likely be the same conference room we usually use.
Read moreFuture dates for Central NJ meet-ups - feedback please
Last night we had a good discussion including three people who were attending for the first time. However, overall it seems like fewer people have attended the last two meet-ups which we held on Thursday rather than Tuesday.
For December we discussed trying it on the 1st Wednesday (December 2nd).
Read moreNorthern NJ Meetup Tuesday - 11/24/09 - 7pm
Please come with questions, and we will do what we can to assist. I can do a show and tell about the project I have been working on discussing the theming issues and trials.
As usual the meetup is held at the Panera off Route 17 North.
Hope to see everyone soon!
Robbie
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Who wants to go surfing?
UPDATE: To all of you who have requested an invitation from me, I want you to know that I have forwarded your invite request to Google. They usually respond to this nomination within a couple of days. If you do not get an invite email from Google by November 24, 2009, let me know. Remember to send me your FULL name with email addy (private or public, I don't care). By the way, I still have a couple of invites, but they're going pretty fast. Let me know if you're up for surfing.
Read moreFederation Protocol -- it ain't just Google servers anymore
Google Wave has been generating a lot of excitement among Drupal developers and there are very good reasons for this. Back in July 2009 or so a handful of Drupalistas, including myself, were privileged to play in Google's Wave Developer Sandbox. In early October 2009, a public preview server was opened to allow many more developers an opportunity to kick the tires on this new vehicle of communication. Most people checked it out for maybe an hour or so, liked what they saw and then moved on to other business.
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Central NJ meet-up - November 12th, 2009 at 7pm
Held at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Address:
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
IAS is a short distance from Mercer Street. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. For those who are familiar with Princeton University, we are basically on the other side of the golf course. It is a little over a mile from the train station, so walkable. For those coming by car, park in Lot A. There should be plenty of parking in the evening.
Read moreNorthern NJ meetup - Wednesday - 10/21 @ 7PM
Last month I led a little talk I like to call, Robbie's Practical Version Control for Drupal - How to use Subversion with CVS to make your life easier. This month I think we should head back to more Q & A and show & tell. Please bring questions, problems and examples.
I urge everyone to head up to New Paltz for the DrupalCamp there on 10/17 I will be there assisting Frank, and likely presenting.
As usual the meetup is held at the Panera off Route 17 North.
Hope to see everyone soon!
Robbie
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Montreal DrupalCamp 2009 - October 17-18
Just wanted to let all the surrounding areas know that if you're looking for a DrupalCamp that's only a few hours away, we have one waiting at DrupalCamp Montreal 2009: The Education Edition. It's taking place at McGill University on October 17th-18th. We're happy to say that Webchick will be presenting a session or two! We have over 80 attendees already registered and are growing at nearly 10 sign-ups per day!
Read moreCentral NJ Drupal meetup October 8
The October 2009 Central New Jersey Drupal meet-up will be held on the campus of Princeton University. While we will be open to discussing all Drupal-related topics, we'll have a focus for this time on using revision control software. We will discuss using CVS to get or deploy Drupal core or contributed modules from Drupal.org. In addition we will discuss the use of subversion (svn) as a tool for managing your own custom code and for deploying custom code or the Acquia Drupal distribution.
We will mostly use the command-line tools, but also take a quick look at using them via an IDE like NetBeans. We'll try to make this hands on, so it will be useful to have these programs installed on your computer or a remote computer you can access.
The meet-up is being co-sponsored by the "Princeton Unix Users' Group" (an undergraduate student group).
We will meet in the Rockefeller residential college classroom (in Madison hall), which is near the corner of Nassau St. (route 27) and University Place in downtown Princeton. The classroom is reached by going through the Holder Hall courtyard to the entrance that leads to the Rockefeller College common room and dining hall. The exterior of this door is labeled "Rockefeller College Office". Immediately inside this door are stairs leading up to the classroom above.
Read moreNorthern NJ meetup - Wednesday - 9/23 @ 7PM
Coming out of the last meetup, we were discussing lots of day-to-day maintenance and I always push version control, even if it is just you as the developer or themer. I talked a little about how simple it is, and I realized that I need to do a little show & tell. So this month I am going to do Robbie's Practical Version Control for Drupal - How to use Subversion with CVS to make your life easier :)
As always there will be Q & A and show & tell. Please bring questions, problems and examples.
The back room was great, large space lots of outlets & tables.
Read moreCentral NJ meet-up - September 15th, 2009 at 7pm
The main topic for this meet-up will be Views. Using, themeing, etc. Sorry for the delay. I hope people can still fit this in their calendars.
Please sign up so we have a rough estimate of how many people will attend. Also, if you have particular questions/problems regarding Views, please post them. That way we'll have a better idea of what everyone needs help with.
Again, held at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Address:
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
Site Building and Theming Trainings in NYC in September
Zivtech is proud to announce two days of Drupal trainings, on Tuesday, September 29th and Wednesday, September 30th in New York. The trainings are hosted by Eyebeam, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Read moreNorthern NJ meetup - 8/20 7PM
This meetup has moved up to the Panera Bread in Ramsey
Read moreTypes of information objects
There are at least two basic types of information objects. One is organic and the other idealistic. By organic I mean a composite of attributes that reflect nature's use of ordered and encoded DNA information to drive organic living and organic growth processes. It is no accident that trees, branches and leaves are so often used to describe ordered relationships. By idealistic, I mean a throwback to the Platonic concept of a pure object that exists in form but is never actualized in practice.
Read moreHow to add a Google Wave to a local Drupal website
1. Create a google wave after you have accessed your sandbox.
2. While the google wave is active, select Debug>Get current Wave ID.
3. A small window should pop up, displaying a Wave ID. Copy the value that is displayed to your clipboard. You'll have to highlight the value before a copy command becomes available.
4. Create a new content type in a fresh Drupal installation and call it "Google Wave". The machine name can be googlewave. Put in whatever description you like.
5. At Home > Create content in the local Drupal website, select the new content type "Google Wave".
Read moreGoogle Wave Drupal mashup module testing
I am at liberty to dispense access to Google Wave Developer's Sandbox to one developer for the purpose of collaborative testing. I prefer to provide this access to someone who is not contractually bound to any employer to create code for the sole benefit of the employer. I will be at the Northern NJ Drupal Group meeting in Ramsey this Thursday evening. If interested in this sandbox access and collaborative testing, please discuss your interest with me at this meeting.
Read moreHas anyone been invited to Google's Wave Sandbox?
I too am waiting for access to Google's Wave Sandbox. I have not heard if anyone has gotten this access yet. Have you?
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