Posted by pwolanin on November 19, 2009 at 5:21pm
Start:
2009-12-02 07:00 - 09:00 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Topic: General discussion of what you are working on - come get input or help from fellow Drupal users. Show everyone your site or your code or talk about the challenges you are facing.
Location:
Institute for Advanced Study
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
IAS is very near Princeton University. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. Signs will be posted with the room assignment. It will most likely be the same conference room we usually use.
Comments
Great! Looking forward to
Great! Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Praying to the Drupal Gods!
We should be fine hosting
We should be fine hosting this at IAS again.
Institute for Advanced Study
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)
IAS is very near Princeton University. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. Signs will be posted with the room assignment. It will most likely be the same conference room we usually use.
Thanks to those who braved
Thanks to those who braved the rain - for those who couldn't make it, an incomplete run-down of the event:
fideaux was interested in ideas for a personal project to create a site to show and categorize or analyze a set of ~200 year old family records from Boston, and also in ideas for e-commerce-like setups for allowing users to buy rewards based on non-monetary points.
tuphill, tarzadon, and ednawig talked about creating calendar events (nodes) using an external SQL database created by another application.
John wanted ideas for creating community sites such as for his residents' association to replace a current static site, and talked about this experiences with Drupal.
cocogodiva talked about her ptso site including use of http://drupal.org/project/ddblock to visually highlight upcoming events
I talked a bit about working on Drupal Gardens, recent changes to Drupal 7 such as contextual links http://drupal.org/node/601150 and working on apachesolr patches like http://drupal.org/node/401234.
davidhernandez and ednawig were interested in ideas around document/asset management. We looked at a couple modules for alfresco integration, and davidhernandez talked about projects including the IAS Community of Scholar which is formatting nodereference fields using http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_views
Hi!
This is John.
I really enjoyed the meeting, and look forward to the next one.
Thanks for being there!
Assistance
Hey Guys,
I've been banging my head all weekend. I enabled the optimize css & js on my site on Friday (12.4.09) not sure if what's happening to my site had anything to do with it or not but I did read that some theme's aren't compatible with the optizmization features. When an Anonymous User accesses the site the are able to load the page but when they nagivate back to the home page, they get "garbage", ie wingdings. I'm able to log in as Admin, navigate with no problems. I rebuilt the permissions and disabled the optizmization features. I'm at a loss as to where to go from here. Any thoughts would be greatly appericated.
Coco
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Likely a bad character
I would open all the files and check for bad whitespace characters, if you are on a Mac and have BBEdit there is a zap gremlins function. Also if there are more then 1 @charset declarations in CSS files, it will cause issues also since there can only be one, and when you aggregate CSS they are all in the same file.
Robbie
can you post a link to the
can you post a link to the site?
Custom theme CSS or JS or
Custom theme CSS or JS or even that provided by some modules can break if (for example) the formatting is funny or the JS functions are not closed properly (I think with a ";"). However, usually I've not had problems turning on CSS and JS aggregation. Generally that would mean a broken layout or features.
Getting "garbage" output would more likely be a page cache issue or a gzip compression issue. Did you change the "Page compression:" setting? Do you know what your webserver supports in terms of compression?
@ David www.fmsptso.org
@ David www.fmsptso.org - currently the site is offline but if you refresh you will see the "garbage".
@Peter - I didn't change any of the page compression settings. Just enabled the aggregation.
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garbage
It's a gzipped version of your page. Perhaps the header is not correct?
If you had apache servering
If you had apache servering gziped files and then had a load balencer gziping files we have seen that cause strange issues like this.
Robbie
@ Mister & Robbie.. How do I
@ Mister & Robbie.. How do I undo the damage?
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I think you would need to log
I think you would need to log in and disable aggregation of JS & CSS first then clear the cache. Try each separately CSS and then JS as an anonymous user. If this returns I would check with your hosting server for whether or not gzip is enabled.
Robbie
Page Cache
Praying to the Drupal Gods.. Really Works! You guys are my heros :-)! I'd already disabled aggregation of JS & CSS, so I thought since the only time the garbage is displayed is when an anonymous users view or reloads page. So I disabled Page Cache, logged out and then logged back, enabled Page Cache and all is fine. Whew Now I need a drink! Thank you so much!
Praying to the Drupal Gods!