Ireland

This is a review I did about six weeks ago but havn't had a chance to load it till now. You can read the general review or help us all even further by responding to some of the criticisms in the detailed review especially if you are familiar with Drupal and the book!

Book Review (for publication) Review of the book: “Drupal 6 – Social Networking”, 2009, by Michael Peacock, Packt Publishing. (http://www.packtpub.com/)

Hi All

I have just launched www.onustraining.co.uk and would welcome any feedback anyone is willing to provide on it.
Thanks

Adam

I have a question regarding the uptake of Drupal in Ireland. It seems (IMHO) that there is no significant awareness of Drupal as a platform in Ireland. Obviously the members of this group are aware of the benefits of the platform but in honesty is the business community / IT community at large aware of the Drupal name and the many benefits that can be leveraged from using it.

I was considering setting up http://www.drupal.ie as a place to promote Drupal in Ireland

Hi all. I'm not sure how to go about this. I need to create a small form for entering an email address. but the form needs to be on the homepage. I've created form pages before but this has me stumped as it needs to be part of the content for the homepage. Any ideas...?

I don’t know if anyone know’s but there is a presentation next Thursday the 11th out in UCD demonstrating the new features of Flex 4 and Catalyst.

Anyone interested in getting up to speed with the new workflows are welcome to join. One of Adobe evangelists, Serge Jespers is flying in for the occasion so there should be a big attendance.

For those that don’t know Catalyst is a new designer tool for faster web application prototyping – integrating with Flash and Illustrator.

More information can be found here
http://www.tinyurl.com/oz877c
and
http://www.webkitchen.be/

Hi all,

Anyone on here fancy doing a half day workshop session (for a fee) on Drupal theming in Dublin (South city centre) the week after next (Tue 9th, Wed 10th or Thurs 11th) ?
Nothing too heavy or formal - we've already developed a couple of sites - but we're looking for some advice on best practices in choosing the right modules for various purposes and approaches for converting designs into Drupal themes.
Drop responses off-list to: daragh@wildwave.com
Let us know what sites you've worked on / experience you have and what fee you propose.

I'm currently using a recently published book entitled, 'Drupal 6 - Social Networking' as a guide for building a social network site. The following are excerpts from the book from the publishers, Packt Publishing. See: www.packtpub.com. I should say that the publishers, Packt Publishing, part sponsored the recent DrupalNGo Camp and sprint in Galway and asked if I would post some excerpts from their book.

Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

This article is extracted from the "Drupal 6 Social Networking" book. In this article, you will learn:

• About mailing lists, and how to use them with our Drupal social network
• How to use an offline approach for contacting our users
• How to use blocks of content to get a message across to your users