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CCK Gmap, Location, proximity search... oh my head is spinning...
Hey everyone,
I've managed to make some excellent progress on my webpage thanks to help from some community members. Some of you may remember I asked about how to establish custom regions. I followed all of the basic instructions everywhere, even sat with some one and got the layout working perfectly... and then low and behold it would not work when put on my webhost. I did find a work around, which was to establish the regions by editing the engine code itself... which isn't ideal, but did in the end solve my problem.
Read moreCustom drupal theme.... creating my own regions and the difficulty I am having with it!
Hey guys,
I posted earlier but had no response. I'm really at a dead end for how the heck I place custom regions in my own theme.
All the documentation makes it appear extremely easy, which is wigging me out. I've not only read a multitude of documentaiton, I've grabbed other themes with multiple custom regions, and tried to mimick their code and not had much for luck. I must be seriously missing something basic though.
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DrupalPDX October Meeting
We're now meeting at the offices of OpenSourcery at 711 SE Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97214.
Brian Gilday of Aha Consulting will be doing a presentation on building with minimal coding
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Local Drupal site used in technical writing textbook
Following in Bill Fitzgerald's footsteps, I thought I'd mention here in the PDX group something I also posted on d.o. I belong to a search and rescue group here in the Portland area called Pacific Northwest Search & Rescue, and about a year ago, I redid the site in Drupal.
Read moreNeed some help developing my own custom theme!
Hey everyone!
So I've made some amazing headway thanks to some of the help I received on here from Steve Edwards! If you ever get the chance to work with him you'll be quite lucky as he's very patient, good at explaining things, and pretty well versed in Drupal. Anyways, he's been helping me through most of the issues I've been encountering, but as of lately has become really busy, this is where you all come in!
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October meeting - proposed topic
I wanted to get a thumbs up / thumbs down reaction from the group on the below proposed topic for our October meeting.
This topic is geared toward Drupal power users and power user wanna-bes, showing how to make the most of existing core and contributed modules via configuration and some minor coding.
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New Book: Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Hello, all,
At the risk of indulging in shameless promotion, I wanted to announce that I wrote a book on using Drupal in Education -- I have an announcement on d.o about it, but I also wanted to post here to get the word out.
The book is titled Drupal for Education and E-learning, and it's due out from Packt Publishing in late October. The book targets Drupal 6, and it's geared toward non-developers and site admins.
Read moreHaving issues with a drupal site
Hey everyone.
So I'm working on my secnd drupal site, and while the first experience with drupal was pleasant and amazingly streamlined, this application is proving to be a bit more difficult. My first application was pretty much the perfect application for Drupal, and this second one should be just as easy, but I'm not having much luck.
Read moreNo September meeting
I just wanted to mention that we're going to skip the normal meeting time this month and meet up with the Lullabots next Tuesday at the Avalon Hotel & Spa instead.
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Drupal for Firebug
And some of the hot new news is... Drupal for Firebug. w00t!
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VPSs & Dedicated servers
Been looking at some new options for VPS (virtual private server) and dedicated host providers.
I use linode now, which is great, but I'm looking for even more power/storage for a couple of sites. Currently looking at slicehost and hostican for VPS as well.
If I consolidated my clients on a singe system, I could go for a dedicated host.
So, how 'bout sharing some recommendations for VPS or dedicated?
also, know anyone local?
Thanks,
Roger
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SAP / H.R. for Drupal
Hi Portland Drupal Group,
Just curious if any has experience with any HR / SAP software for Drupal that you'd recommend. Here's our list:
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Employee Name
2. Hire Date / Fire Date
3. Status (Active / Terminated)
4. Wages
OPTIONAL
1. Performance Management
2. Automated Reminders
3. Training Data (when, what was trained)
4. Workers Compensation
Thanks!
Sean
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Need Help with School Drupal Site
I forgot to give you my contact info in the last post..
rkolinsky (at) pps.k12.or.us
Thanks
Read moreNeed Help with School Drupal Site
I teach at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon. The site is hosted at our district offices.
We have had a Drupal site for a few years. Last week the site went down. Check the error message at: www.lincoln.pps.k12.or.us
I am looking for someone to help us fix the site and get it running again. We will pay you for your time. The district IT team does not know Drupal so they can't help us.
Thanks.....
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Lightning talks with the Lullabots
We're comin' back to Portland! Lullabot Workshops will be in town this September and we'd love to host a meetup for local Drupal users in the Portland. We will be doing lightning talks, so bring your latest cool hack, project, tip or favorite new module! We'll have a cash bar and treats!
Come on out, have a drink and meet Lullabots Matt Westgate, James Walker, and Nate Haug as well as the local Drupal users.
When
Tuesday, September 16th: 7pm - 10pm
Where
Avalon Hotel & Spa [map]
Lullabot Workshops in Portland
Looks like Lullabot will be back in Portland in September for another round of workshops. If you're looking for some top notch Drupal training taugh by the Drupal glitterati then this is your chance. They've got two tracks: Themeing and jQuery 15-17th and Module Development and APIs. You could always sign up for both.
Read moreConnecting good folks with a Drupal tutor
Hello, PDX'ers,
I was recently contacted by an organization who wants to build their internal capacity with Drupal -- they're local to Portland, and would like to be able to sit down with someone periodically to work on their existing site, built in Drupal.
We don't currently have the bandwidth to help them out, but we'd like to connect them with someone local.
If you're interested, please contact me via my contact tab --
Thanks,
Bill
Read moreDrupal on the PR end
A discussion worth checking out is this one on a CMS brand survey which amazon posted to the Drupal Group Marketing of Drupal. It references the following survey:
http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2008OpenSourceCMSMarketSurvey.pdf
I'm no marketing expert, but it seemed to me that while awards and other trends show Drupal surpassing most, Joomla were kicking our butts when it came to marketing and PR. However Amazon had a pretty good answer to that, though I think there is still much for Drupal to do on the marketing end, and this survey could be some help.
Overall it still looks healthy for Drupal, with Wordpress dominating, Joomla second, and Drupal third and everyone else a looong way off. It's interesting to note that technical proficiency is quite out of tune with marketing, with Drupal (possibly) under-performing, but doing vastly better than, for example, Plone, which has a lot of positives, but is lagging badly in this survey.
Grant
Read moreFuture presentations and events
I'm trying to change the way I've been coming up with presentation topics from basically not doing much at all, to a more formal schedule of topics. I've found myself doing talks simply because it was easier to do it myself than try to line someone up. As DrupalCampPDX demonstrated there's a lot of very talented people in this town doing very cool things. I personally need to step it up and do a better job of tapping them and bringing them in.
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