Ireland

The Environment Indicator adds a coloured strip to the side of the site informing you which environment you're currently in (Development, Staging, Production etc). This is incredibly useful if you have multiple environments for each of your sites, and like me, are prone to forgetting which version of the site you are currently looking at!

This module can help you avoid making configuration changes to your live server by mistake, by adding a coloured strip to the side of your site, clearly marking each version of the site.

The Environment Indicator settings page allows you to modify some elements of the indicator's behaviour and appearance. Individual settings, such as the text to display and the colour can be overridden for each of your specific environments in the site's settings.php file. This allows you to customise the indicator for each of your environments without needing to make any changes in the database. This means that the Environment Indicator will always display correctly when moving your site from development to staging to production.

I have just published a fairly detailed case study for concernfast.org, which went live a couple of weeks back. You can also find the case study on my blog

I hope you all enjoy reading it, and please do ask if you have any questions.

Has there been any suggestion or plans for the hosting of the next drupalcamp in Ireland?

I may be able to both logistically and financially help with sponsorship for an event in the new year.

In terms of the next drupalcamp does anyone have any idea what format it may take, does anyone want it to focus on any particular aspects? The first camp I went to in Belfast I enjoyed and presented a couple of sessions, however I feel as though their could be more structure to the presentations to absolute beginners.

Thoughts?

Hi all,
I need to get my hands on a Xen-based VPS, that will support Ubuntu 8.04.
Preferably In Ireland [or at least Europe].

Digiweb will do Ubuntu 8.10 [even though not mentioned on their site]
http://hosting.digiweb.ie/virtual-servers/business-linux/

Slicehost are good - but in the US.
http://www.slicehost.com/our-servers/

Rimuhosting get good references.
http://rimuhosting.com

Any others - Anyone with experiences with the above, good or bad?
I always made the assumption that Latency from the US would rule out US providers.
But am I right?

Later
Alan

This hasn't been specced out yet in any detail I'd imagine. But did anyone else who read this article by Paul Cullen about proposals from the Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park, think Drupal might be part of one possible solution?

a “Gateway Ireland” online portal to link Ireland and the diaspora

Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.

I was scheduled to give a presentation on Drupal at the OSSbarcamp in Dublin this coming Saturday (open source barcamp): http://www.ossbarcamp.com However something has come up and I won't be able to attend the event at all :(

Would anybody be interested in helping out and taking over the session for me? I haven't prepared any slides yet, so you can basically talk about whatever Drupal thing you want to - just keep in mind the audience will be techy, but not necessarily familiar with Drupal. The session is an hour long - so a 45 minute session plus 15 mins of Q&A.

Just got an email from the Irish postcodes guys....their postcode system is moving out of beta now, following a few years of testing.

Their PON Codes (a geo-postcoding system for Ireland) covers Northern Ireland as well, which is useful because the NI postcode system is token at best. The Irish PON code system is very accurate.

Just thought I'd mention it. Here's their website: http://www.irishpostcodes.ie for more info.

The new drupal based website for the Dublin Cycling Campaign has just been launched.
http://www.dublincycling.ie/

All feedback is very welcome and if you happen to be interested, the next open meeting is 7pm, Monday 14th September, 2009 in the Smock Alley Café, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. They'll also be sharing a stand with a number of cycling groups at the Electric Picnic in the Global Green area if anyone is passing.

Huge thanks to Stella who answered a considerable number of questions when development was beginning and to the drupal community at large.