Drupal NYC Meetup -- April 4, 2012

Posted by robbiethegeek on March 25, 2012 at 7:16pm

Start:

2012-04-04 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

robbiethegeek

forestmars

Event type:

User group meeting

Where?: 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
When?: April 4th, 6:30 - 9:00 PM Wednesday Night

Directions?
http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections

Afterwards?
http://maps.google.com/?q=Suspenders&cid=15798436359602217114

Final list will be given to the venue at 10pm on March 6th (the evening before the meetup)

Plans?

LIGHTNING ROUNDS
New feature. Have a topic you can present in 5 minutes (with 5 more minutes for questions)? The basic idea is there are patterns for developing sites the "drupal" way ("what would drupal do? etc."). Tell us a quick 5 minute recipe for how to put the Drupal "bricks" together. Theming techniques or other things may also be appropriate. Propose it below. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning round" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.
- DrupalCar ~ Snugug
- making custom field formatters ~ jfrederick
- Helpful ~ careernerd
- pan-Drupal marketing effort ~ amycham
20 Min Talks
Have a topic that needs more then 5 minutes, we have slots of 20 minute talks. The basic idea is there are broader subjects or more detailed discussions this is the type of talk you would want to signup for, please mention 20 min talk when posting your talk description and the audience you expect to speak to.
- Applying / Creating a patch in Drupal ~ bleen
- Drupal 7 Entities Examples ~ tedbow
- Bootstrap toolkit ~ njmahesh
- VIM + Drupal ~ duckx
We will also have the New 2 Drupal BoF(birds of a feather). If you are new to Drupal and the talks don't apply to you some of us will take a group and talk with you about your issues.

Signup Instructions!: 7 World Trade Center security checks your photo id against the list of attendees that we provide.

Comments

Applying / Creating a patch in Drupal

Posted by bleen on March 26, 2012 at 7:23pm

Someone asked me at the last meetup to do a full-on session aimed at showing people exactly how to download a module (or core) with git; apply a patch; make their own change(s) & create a patch; submit the patch properly to D.O.

This is a bit too long for a 5-minute talk, so Ill nominate this for one one of the 20 minute slots. It will definitely be beginner friendly-ish.

Added

Posted by robbiethegeek on March 26, 2012 at 8:20pm

See you there :)

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Can you also include like how

Posted by njmahesh on April 3, 2012 at 1:50pm

Can you also include like how I can apply the patch in Windows?

drupalcon

Posted by flacoman91 on March 26, 2012 at 9:01pm

I'd love to hear some stuff from drupalcon.

One of the most useful

Posted by geekgirlweb on March 30, 2012 at 9:10pm

One of the most useful sessions that I attended (geared toward sysadmins) was by nnewton:
http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/real-world-performance-ana...

You actually gonna show up

Posted by Snugug on March 30, 2012 at 9:13pm

You actually gonna show up this time? :P

I want to do 20 min on

Posted by njmahesh on March 26, 2012 at 9:02pm

I want to do 20 min on Bootstrap toolkit and how we can use it on the themes.

slides/links ?

Posted by MacRonin on April 5, 2012 at 2:41pm

Thanks for the overview on Bootstrap. You sent a lot of info out to us, I was hoping for a link to your presentation on GoogleDocs. And if you showed links tonight beyond those on your resource page they would be appreciated also.

Also wanted to verify that this is the sandbox with the Omega sub-theme that was including Bootstrap.
http://drupal.org/sandbox/rerooting/1429486

Yes, that's the correct link

Posted by njmahesh on April 5, 2012 at 3:15pm

Yes, that's the correct link and here is my slide on Twitter Bootstrap
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1StUSe8gfR-avozLZtVhFN7dJ2x4u_56l...

Jakob Perry and I would like

Posted by Snugug on March 27, 2012 at 1:42am

Jakob Perry and I would like to do a 5 minute brief overview of DrupalCar from Drupal Con, and if people are interested I'd be happy to do a Sass BoF but I think I'm going to spare everyone a 20 min Sass thing this month (unless people are particularly interested)

If we get 20 minutes, can we

Posted by jon pugh on March 31, 2012 at 4:45pm

If we get 20 minutes, can we do test drives?

Jon Pugh
Founder & CEO
THINKDROP
open source consulting
http://thinkdrop.net

If we can apparate the car

Posted by Snugug on April 2, 2012 at 4:24pm

If we can apparate the car from Wyoming, possibly :P

yah sadly its sitting in a

Posted by japerry on April 2, 2012 at 5:51pm

yah sadly its sitting in a parking lot in Cheyenne. It would have been cool to drive it around NYC but I heard the parking (and people hitting bumpers) was quite difficult

Custom Field Formatters

Posted by jfrederick on March 30, 2012 at 7:33pm

I could do a 5 minute session on making custom field formatters. I've only been working with Drupal for 8 months, so I don't know if this is too easy a topic. If so, I look forward to learning from the other sessions. :)

Format of presentations?

Posted by jfrederick on April 3, 2012 at 3:03am

Hey y'all, just wondering what the format is. Windpipe? Projector?

There's a projector, but

Posted by tom_o_t on April 4, 2012 at 7:57pm

There's a projector, but that's it. Remember to bring a VGA adaptor if you use a mac.

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Vi/Vim + Drupal + Linux - Beginners to Novice

Posted by patoshi on March 30, 2012 at 9:34pm

Hello all!

I would like to do a 20 min presentation on VIM + Drupal. I'll be going over:

VIM Introduction for those that are new to Modal editing
- Common negative views of VIM
- No Mouse or arrow keys!
- The many ways of navigation / inserting text / deleting text
Why I switched from Notepad++/Textmate to VIM
- Typical habits I realized after adopting to VIM
- Coding Speed Increased
- Increases productivity for on the fly edits
Intro to my daily VIM arsenal of plugins and how it applies to daily coding:
- NerdTree
- YankRing
- TagList
- Gundo
- Snipmate
- drupal.org/project/vimrc
- Ack
My favorite VIM time savers:
- The amazing 'c' key...
- The amazing '.' key...
- Autocomplete Dropdown
- Vertical/Horizontal split screens
- Nested find + find + replace
Conclusion: VIM saves development time!
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/8361/croppercapture96.jpg

Also I'll be doing a raffle for these beauties:
Only local images are allowed.

I'll be giving 8 away. For those that want to enter the raffle, just write down your name on a piece of paper and we'll pull them out of a box randomly.

vim++ And these are

Posted by Steven Merrill on March 31, 2012 at 2:16am

vim++

And these are delicious!

What about debugging with Vim?

Posted by esod on March 31, 2012 at 7:45pm

Does someone know how to get this working?

" Debugging with VimDebugger {
   map <F11> :DbgStepInto<CR>
   map <F10> :DbgStepOver<CR>
   map <S-F11> :DbgStepOut<CR>
   map <F5> :DbgRun<CR>
   map <F6> :DbgDetach<CR>
   map <F8> :DbgToggleBreakpoint<CR>
   map <S-F8> :DbgFlushBreakpoints<CR>
   map <F9> :DbgRefreshWatch<CR>
   map <S-F9> :DbgAddWatch<CR>
 " }

Thanks

Could it be syntax?

Posted by moranimation on March 31, 2012 at 8:13pm

My guess would be syntax. Perhaps :map might put this right?

I can also try to help you

Posted by jzacsh on April 4, 2012 at 3:24am

I can also try to help you debug this tomorrow night.

Cool. Thanks.

Posted by esod on April 4, 2012 at 2:50pm

I like Netbeans, but I bet Vim can also function as a debugger and use many fewer system resources.

Love these!

Posted by amybrate on April 2, 2012 at 2:26pm

Saw these in Denver. Too cool!!

My presentation is up! Hope

Posted by patoshi on April 4, 2012 at 5:56am

My presentation is up! Hope everything goes smoothly....

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_n6x5MrOStyOCtUVw0nfJp611w-3B9ya...

Vim

Posted by softwaremac on July 14, 2012 at 1:11pm

I like Vim, It's not very easy, but very essentials..
softwaremac

any chance this meet up will be recorded?

Posted by gurlinthewurld on March 30, 2012 at 11:22pm

Tomorrow I'm headed to a web meeting in Europe all week - Looks like I really will miss a lot....kath.

missing out kat! it will be

Posted by patoshi on March 30, 2012 at 11:40pm

missing out kat! it will be awesome! ... have fun in europe!

yeah, I thought it was gonna be ...

Posted by gurlinthewurld on March 31, 2012 at 12:24am

you lot missin' but once again, it's another kick ass line up in the Big Apple, eh? $h!† LOL ... k@

next time...

Helpful Module

Posted by jon pugh on March 31, 2012 at 4:43pm

Five minutes to show off my latest contrib module Helpful.

It's an easy way to implement helpful messages for your users leveraging advanced help.

http://drupal.org/project/helpful

Jon Pugh
Founder & CEO
THINKDROP
open source consulting
http://thinkdrop.net

Marketing Drupal

Posted by amybrate on April 2, 2012 at 2:24pm

I know lightning talks are generally technical, but would it be possible to grab a 5-minute slot to talk about a pan-Drupal marketing effort that's going on?

At DrupalCon, there's was a BoF on how marketing (and in some ways non-marketing) folks across Drupal could be working together to do a better job explaining Drupal and attracting more clients, users, and professionals who aren't already familiar with it.

We've kept things moving, and I'd like to let people know what we're trying to do, why we're doing it, and how they can help or just keep tabs on how things progress.

I would love to see this!

Posted by jon pugh on April 2, 2012 at 4:28pm

I would love to see this! I'm sure everyone could use some tips on how to explain what Drupal is and how it is different.

Jon Pugh
Founder & CEO
THINKDROP
open source consulting
http://thinkdrop.net

Marketing Drupal

Posted by richbaldwin on April 3, 2012 at 12:12pm

+1 on this amy.
so can we slot this in?

Drupal 7 Entities Examples

Posted by tedbow on April 2, 2012 at 7:55pm

I just found out I am going to be in town for this.

I would be interested in doing a presentation on examples of modules that are using custom Entities in Drupal 7

I can run through my module EntityForms: http://drupal.org/project/entityform

Also could show Entity Construction Kit: http://drupal.org/project/eck
I got a chance to talk to fmizzell the creator of this module for an hour so at DrupalCon and it sounds like he wants to take it in some interesting directions.

I could easily do a 20 minute talk but if those times are taken I could do a brief 5 minute introduction. Either way.

Core developer

Easing into entities example ?

Posted by MacRonin on April 3, 2012 at 4:49pm

For those of us easing into Entities. (Accessing ones that already exist rather than building from scratch just yet). Could there possibly be an example of how MyModule could possibly access (read/update) another modules Entities? If you need a specific one to demo against, I'm personally looking to do this against the data created/managed by the Profile2 module [ Already posted a Question on this less than an hour before your session description went up :-) http://drupal.org/node/1512682 ]

BTW, I took a quick look at your EntityForm project. Looks like something I'll end up using. In the future, is there a chance that EntityForm will integrate with ECK?

@MacRonin, I am assuming from

Posted by tedbow on April 3, 2012 at 9:40pm

@MacRonin, I am assuming from your question that you are looking into how to access and update the information in code.

I could share some example code of how to access and update general entities that should easily work with profile2.

Yes I am trying figure out if making Entityforms dependent on ECK would be a good idea. I haven't time to do that yet.

Core developer

@tedbow Correct. I have been

Posted by MacRonin on April 3, 2012 at 10:18pm

@tedbow Correct.
I have been writing a module that wants to read and update fields in the Profile2 data. This way there is one storage location, but the data could be used by either environment (my module and Profile2) easily.

Any example code is appreciated. API References are good, but I learn the best by pulling apart working code and tweaking things to see what happens.

Thanks

Example module

Posted by tedbow on April 4, 2012 at 7:01pm

Here's simple sandbox project that reads and updates a field on an entity

http://drupal.org/sandbox/tedbow/1515430

Core developer

Thanks ! I'll start hacking away at it

Posted by MacRonin on April 4, 2012 at 9:53pm

@tedbow Thanks ! I'll start hacking away at it.

Of course this comment has now got me curious :-)

<?php
 
    //not sure why this doesn't work???
    //$profile_wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('profile2', $profile_entity);
    //$profile_wrapper->field_status->set($values['new_status']);
?>