SFDUG - San Francisco Drupal Users group March 16

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Start: 
2009-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 America/Los_Angeles
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User group meeting

This month the SFDUG meeting is on the 16th of March at 6pm at 1436 Howard Street in San Francisco.

Web site showcase, where we will show off a web site and how it uses Drupal.

This month we have:

Industry Standard - a how and why a large media property made the switchto Drupal.
web100.com - a popular website review and aggregation site

For our technical session, I would like to engage you. You ask questions which are perplexing you and we get you answers from our local experts. So come with your questions.

I want to hear about things you want help with. CCK? Views? Panels? General Configuration? Let me know and we will get a fun session together addressing practical technical issues you need help with. It will be an interactive tech session this month.

Will be a great meeting, looking forward to sharing stories about Drupalcon with others.

As always we will have some drinks, if you would like to bring something please feel free.

Look forward to seeing you there.

John

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partial notes on presentations

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1) http://www.thestandard.com/ -- baldwin louie (in house development, with lullabot ad-hoc training)
(the old Industry Standards site is being brought back to life in a drupal form and new functionalities)

  • main site features: news, prediction market (a java app on top of drupal), social networking (kind of).
  • reason for choosing drupal: most modular open source system + most mature open source system / contrib modules & functionality
  • main modules in use: imagecache, notification/messaging/sms, voting API, Mollom (a spam module developped by Dries himself), ad serving / double click, comment timer (user can only edit their comment for 15 minutes after posting)
  • search uses custom SOLR integration (on top of Lucene) (interesting reads on this: http://www.lullabot.com/blog/new-solr-search-module-works, and http://acquia.com/blog/hosted-solr-site-search-for-drupal-is-on-the-way)
  • main variables for performance optimization:
    ** reduce # of queries (with devel module)
    ** remove redundant queries (with devel module)
    ** gzip / apache
    ** absolute includes (not sure what that is all about....)
    ** APC + Meme Cache
    ** MySQL + Apache configs...
    ** CSS + JS aggregation

2) http://www.web100.com/ - dan kurtz (http://www.trellon.com/)

  • Enhancement of items metadata was one of the main critical goals of redesign
  • uses Aquia (http://acquia.com/about-us), upon clients' request
  • main modules in use: views, cck, smackdown (to compare 2 nodes), Hierarchical select (for taxonomy)
  • search is run on XAPIAN (http://drupal.org/project/xapian)
  • no menus are being used, nav automatically generated via taxonomy tags
  • content types: lists, reviews, sites (descriptions), smackdown...
  • vocabulary lists: too100, other lists, Tags
  • interesting drupal feature: "Content Multigroup": http://drupal.org/node/119102 (allows to link content to fields, similarly to how cck allows to link content to nodes)