Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, September 12, 2013

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pwolanin's picture
Start: 
2013-09-12 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
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Event type: 
User group meeting

Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!

Contined format - 3 sections, with 2-3 people for each section. We need you to participate! Please contact the organizers or comment below to claim one of these slots. All of these are open and appropriate for you regardless of your experience level with Drupal - beginner and intermediate topics are especially helpful to others.

All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge.

Meeting in room 008 in the Princeton Friend Center.


AGENDA

1) 10 minutes/per person Site showcase and feedback
 Show off your work-in-progress or recently completed project in < 5 minutes, and get feedback and suggestions

- Levi Sigworth - how to use modules to redirect anonymous users to the login page and
                           to the correct how page after login: https://aah.princeton.edu/
- David Hernandez - tracking API usage server-side with Google Analytics


2) 5 minutes/person- Get a question answered! Leverage the knowledge of the crowd.
  If you have a Drupal configuration  theming, or development problem that you are banging your head on, or a new piece of functionality that would benefit from group brainstorming on how to implement claim one of these slots and bring a concise description or demo of the problem so we can help.

- Patty - how to install PEAR on Windows?
- Kevin Reis - is there a module that helps add internal Drupal links in a text area?

3) ~45 minutes

- Peter Wolanin  - preview of planned Drupalcon talk:
    DRUPAL 8 - INFO HOOK TO PLUGIN
    https://prague2013.drupal.org/session/drupal-8-info-hook-plugin

WHERE

Join us in Room 008, of the Friend Center on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.

After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.

visitor wifi details:

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf

cross-listed on meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/drmjgdyrmbqb/

Comments

something new

wheatpenny's picture

I had to make a Drupal site that was password protected. However, the login page when a site is in "maintenance mode" wasn't very appealing. I'd like to show the modules that I used to create a password protected Drupal site that doesn't use maintenance mode.

Thematically, this presentation belongs in the #3 slots, but I bet I can get it done in 10 minutes. So, I'm fine with either time slot.

Updated the agenda - Greg and

pwolanin's picture

Updated the agenda - Greg and Levi will showcase some recent work and I'lll plan to preview/practice a talk I'm supposed to give at Drupalcon

Google analytics php

davidhernandez's picture

Google analytics php libraries

http://code.google.com/p/php-ga/

You can use the one below for PHP 5.2.
https://github.com/chappy84/google-analytics-server-side/tree/php-5.2

Plugin and General 8.x

pwolanin's picture

Plugin and General 8.x Resources

Demo code used for the presentation

https://drupal.org/sandbox/pwolanin/2087657

Converting 7.x modules to 8.x

https://drupal.org/update/modules/7/8

Plugin API in Drupal 8

https://drupal.org/node/2087839

Understanding Drupal 8's plugin system

http://previousnext.com.au/blog/understanding-drupal-8s-plugin-system