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Class Recommendations for a Drupal Neophyte
Hello all,
I am a site maintainer for my office currently and use html in dreamweaver. We are revamping our website and will be using Drupal to do so. I have no experience whatsoever with it or PHP and was wondering if someone could recommend a class I could take either in the Boston area or online for PHP/Drupal, etc.
Thank you so much :)
Stephanie
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Western Mass Drupal Meetup - September 2, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
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Thanks and sorry for last minute cancellation.
The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, September 2.
Great meeting last night. See meeting notes posted on that meeting's announcement (August 5) below. A little light on attendance - I will be sure to send out reminder before next meeting.
Location: TBA
Please suggest agenda items for the next meeting by posting comments below.
AGENDA (in process):
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drupal video wall
as discussed at last night's meetup, here's the link to zivtech's drupal video wall. there's loads and loads of content here and i haven't had near enough time to parse through it all, so i can't say whether it's all good, all bad, or halfsies.
take a look for yourself and let us know which videos you find helpful!
jon
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Need venue for picnic or BBQ for next meetup
Hi all. I would love to take a break from the conference room and host our next meetup outdoors. Specifically, I am looking for volunteers who can secure a grassy space for about 25 people or so. If we have access to a BBQ, thats terrific. If not, we'll just picnic without one.
Sean has offerred his space, but there is no grass and a small BBQ so I am just reaching out for a more comfortable alternative.
I think we can leave the laptops at home for this one and just chat about Drupal.
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Lightning talks with Lullabot!
Lullabot Workshops are returning to Providence, RI for a week of workshops. As has become our tradition, we'd love to host a meetup for local Drupal users in the Providence/ Boston area. We will be doing lightning talks, so bring your latest cool hack, project, tip or favorite new module! We'll have a cash bar and complimentary snacks.
Come on out, have a drink and meet Lullabots Jeff Robbins, James Walker, Angie "webchick" Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton and Nate Haug as well as the local Drupal users.
When
Tuesday, July 8th: 7pm - 10pm
Where
The Providence Biltmore [map]
Getting XDebug and Eclipse to play together nicely
Following the discussion at last Wednesday's meetup, I posted some detailed "how-to" instructions on how to set up XDebug, MAMP, and Eclipse w/ PDT here:
http://labs.echoditto.com/drupal-xdebug-pdt-eclipse
A lot of these instructions should apply to Windows users and non-MAMP users as well, the only real difference should be where the xdebug.so file comes from and where it lives. Look forward to feedback, more to come (probably a quick screencast of PDT/XDebug tricks to start with).
Cheers,
Ethan
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How was 6/25 Boston Meetup
Sorry I couldn't make tonight's meetup. How did it go? What did I miss?
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supportunitedway.org case study
This is a writeup of how and why United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley chose Drupal for the redesign of supportunitedway.org. I'll talk about our history with Drupal, how we structured the new site, which modules we used, and how we migrated data from our old site.
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Boston Drupaltherapy Session: July 25, 2008
I am happy to announce the next Drupal therapy session, this time in our home town of Boston. This training will take place on July 25, 2008, in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, right off the MBTA Red Line. You can learn all about it and register for the workshop here.
Enterprise 2.0 Expo/ Enterprise2Open - Free to attend
http://www.enterprise2conf.com/
Demo pavilion pass are available for free here: http://www.enterprise2conf.com/exhibition/demo-pavilion.php
Tuesday, June 10
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Wednesday, June 11
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Enterprise2Open unconference: http://www.enterprise2conf.com/conference/e2open.php
If you are interested in presenting at Enterprise 2 Open you should be able to sign up at the event itself.
When should we hold DrupalCampNewEngland? - Take two... This time with correct dates!
Possible DrupalCamp New England dates?
Drupal Code Sprint on Saturday May 17th at BostonBarcamp3 (May 17-18)
BarcampBoston3 is coming up this weekend at Matignon High School in Cambridge May 17-18. If you'd like to lead a Drupal-related session, go here: http://2008.barcampboston.org/index.php?title=Sessions
If you want a t-shirt, you need to add your name to the attendee list today/Wednesday.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - New Location - June 25, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
Note: the May meetup will be held at Berkman Center as usual.
The June meetup of our beloved Boston group will meet at new location in Harvard Square. We will be hosted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute at 42 Church Street, above the Border Cafe. There is an enclave past the front door of Borders on the Church Street side, and it says Harvard Stem Cell Institute on the door. Maureen Lyons be there to let people in. If folks are late they will have to call up using the dialog bog next to the door.
Read moreNew layout for the Boston Group
I'm working on a new layout for the Boston Drupal group and I wanted to solicit some input from the community before I do anything drastic. It seems that our group's 244 members are using this page for a bunch of different purposes and I wanted to compartmentalize these into a just a few useful pages and blocks. My purpose is to help members find what they are looking for faster, and make sure the most pertinent of topics do not get buried.
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup - June 3, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
Following the first Tuesday of the month timing we have been doing, then next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, June 3.
That was a great meeting this past Tuesday. Many thanks to Jim Skowyra for arranging the room again!
Thanks to David Hamilton this meeting will be hosted at Amherst College campus, Webster 102. For more see David's comment below.
Also, we have been informal in the past but I think an agenda would be good with as many presentations as possible, so comment below if you have something to present. It can be small and "newbie" so anything is cool. I think at the last meeting we did presentations that would have been over heads of newbies so want to maybe balance that with some basic stuff too. A step by step of Imagecache Module use is an example.
Check back here later for more details.
Thanks, Rick Hood
UPDATE:
agenda so far:
- Using the Audio Module - Jim Skowyra
- Building an image gallery using CCK, Views, Imagecache, Thickbox and Custom pagers (http://drupal.org/node/144725) - Rick Hood
- Making custom page and views templates - Dan
- The Innerfade module (http://drupal.org/project/innerfade) - tentative - Dan
Open Source Barbecue: (Rained out)
Bad news. Even though it's sunny now, all weather forecasts point to thunderstorms by noon. With people traveling from as far away as New Hampshire, I'd rather hold this on a day with less risky weather. We'll do this on another weekend in June.
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup - May 6, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 6, 6-9pm.
Location: Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst (30 Boltwood Ave).
http://www.lordjefferyinn.com/
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2fmrj2
This time we are in "The Garden Room" which is larger.
Many thanks to Jim Skowyra for arranging the room again!
Make comments to this if you want to talk abotu something in particular - maybe give a presentation or whatever.
If anyone has a projector, please bring. I will try to fix mine before, but may not have any luck.
Read moreDevelopment & Production Sites with Database Prefixes
I mentioned this at the last Boston meetup, and there was some interest so I though I would share. Running two sites off the same database and prefixing certain tables should allow for a simple dev/prod environment.
The idea is to isolate the configurations for the two different sites in two differently prefixed sets of tables, and allow all the content, users, taxonomy, etc. to mingle. To test this I've set up two subdomains, dev1.castlin.net and dev2.castlin.net. Here is the entry in settings.php for dev2 (dev1 is strikingly similar):
Read moreWhat about a DrupalCamp New England?
Feeling a little bit of a post-Drupalcon lull and mulling over travel plans to next weekend's DrupalCampNYC4, I found myself wishing that there was something a little bit closer to home to look forward to going to occasionally.
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