May Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm to 9pm (Tuesday May 1st, 2012)

I'm leaning towards either the PHP one (since it's later and doesn't require keeping my kids at after school care) or perhaps just resting (or reading the final Hunter Games book!).

Kristen
Contact: https://www.hook42.com/contact
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book

SCDUG - Drupal Migration

Posted by LindaDonohue on April 24, 2012 at 3:42pm

Sure wish I could join you folks on Wednesdays. Taking a class at that time. See you in a few months!

Can the Migration talk be videotaped?

Linda

Meeting topics

Posted by kristen pol on April 30, 2012 at 7:19pm

Hi all! My oldest son turns 9 today (yes, I'm getting old :P )... so it's been birthday weekend and so on.

Thus, I haven't had time to prepare any presentations!! Argh. Anyone have something they can present tomorrow? I was hoping to do the multilingual talk by tomorrow night so I could run it by everyone but it doesn't look like that's going to happen :(

Linda - the migration talk was at the Silicon Valley DUG last week... not sure if there are slides or anything...

Kristen

Kristen
Contact: https://www.hook42.com/contact
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book

I have been wanting to attend

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 1, 2012 at 9:29pm

I am a Drupal user i.e.; I have a site using Drupal. I am not what you call knowledgeable and need to figure some things out about my site. I would like to attend tonight's meeting...mostly to meet a couple of people who work on drupal here in SC. I cannot stay the who meeting and I will have to bring my son with me. Can I arrive a few minutes early to feel things out?
Thank you

Signed up

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 2, 2012 at 12:48am

Son is staying home :)

Glad you made it

Posted by kristen pol on May 2, 2012 at 4:13am

Hope you figure out your performance issues easily... let us know how it works out.

Kristen

Kristen
Contact: https://www.hook42.com/contact
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book

Thank you

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 2, 2012 at 6:20am

So far so good! I think I need to look into VPS hosting, any recommendations?

VPS

Posted by erutan on May 2, 2012 at 7:09am

I've been using Linode for a while now and I've been happy - a good rate and great responsive support.

My referral code link is http://www.linode.com/?r=a19b3d1e8699717956a4f9bcba5f2f696c6773b3 I'd start out with the low 512MB plan, it should be more than enough for what you need. You can go cheaper but you start running into downtime/stability/etc stuff.

Amazon is imho geared more towards computing / CDN, but another good solution is http://www.rackspace.com/ it's more expensive than linode for the same amount of RAM, but it's a bit more flexible/scalable.

VPS hosting

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 27, 2012 at 8:03pm

I looked into Linode, got a paln...found out that I needed to learn way to much just to get started. Then in the midst of trying to figure out what I did not know, I learned that Aquia Commons requires a 1G RAM minimum. So, I am wondering what other recommendations you (or others) may have.

It was pixel ratio, not pixel

Posted by erutan on May 2, 2012 at 5:40am

It was pixel ratio, not pixel density: use is for images that are more UI/text/etc where you would want (on an iPhone portrait for example) an image which was deliberately re-rendered from a 480px image to 960px vs having a 960px image meant for a traditional display running at 960.

My issue @ http://drupal.org/node/1544206

One dealing with pixel ratio @ http://drupal.org/node/1550054

PS - the module I couldn't remember the name of http://drupal.org/project/imce

moar lanks

Posted by erutan on May 2, 2012 at 5:54am

two responsive layouts (drag your browser window size):

http://responsivewebdesign.com/robot/ (desktop first)
http://susy.oddbird.net/susy320/ (mobile first)

a books apart from other books (one assumes):

http://www.abookapart.com/products/

and a general article on optimizing images:

http://adactio.com/journal/5439/

thanks for the lanks

Posted by hreed on May 2, 2012 at 8:31pm

Thanks for posting the links, they look good sources of info. While it's not specifically drupal I've found some good jquery resources at http://jquerymobile.com/

You might also check out the Silicon Valley Drupal Group as there are a lot of iphone folks there and I'm sure they are into responsive design.
http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/

May Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm to 9pm (Tuesday May 1st, 2012)

Comments

Don't present anything too interesting...

Ok...

p.s.

Silicon Valley DUG on Wed?

PHP meetup

I may show up to the PHP

PHP or rest