Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, March 13, 2014

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pwolanin's picture
Start: 
2014-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

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

New room around the corner - come to 004.

Continued 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 (or near - look for signs) room 005 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 < 10 minutes, and get feedback and suggestions

- David Hernandez - showing how to make custom view modes, demo Image Javascript Crop.
- crowdcg - Twig in Drupal 8.

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.

- [Slot 1]
- [Slot 2]

3) ~20 minutes/person - Present something new (or new to you)
  If you have been trying out a module and want to demo it, want to teach others about a technique, outline best practices, or preview a talk for a upcoming camp or conference, this is for you.  Make sure to describe your intended audience.

- crowdcg - content manager layout.
- pwolanin - putting Drupal 7 site static assets behind a CDN
   https://www.acquia.com/blog/using-aws-ruby-sdk-put-drupal-sites-assets-b...

WHERE

Join us in Room 004, 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/167057972/

Comments

Section 3

seantwalsh's picture

Sign me up for section 3. I'd like to demo different ways of giving content managers the ability to alter content layout. Look at Panelizer, Template Picker, and Display Suite.

Note that we have room 004

pwolanin's picture

Note that we have room 004 reserved this month and next https://www.princeton.edu/events/?view=daily&category=all&from=2014-03-1...

So please come there.

Bonus challenge for section

pwolanin's picture

Bonus challenge for section #2: can you answer the Drupal GSOC PHP challenge question from http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/drupal

Question based on given 'almighty_function'
You have this function:

function almighty_function($x, $y, $z) {
  if ($y != $z && $x == $y && $x == $z) {
    return "Success!";
  }
  return "FAIL!";
}

Please provide a set of values for $x, $y and $z for the function to return "Success!". Explain your solution.

Free Linux classes from Linux Foundation

wheatpenny's picture

I want to quickly plug a free training that the Linux Foundation is offering. I bet we all touch Linux a lot even if we aren't running it locally.

https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-int...

Thanks

rob de koter's picture

Thank you I just signed-up

Blog post that I'll basically

pwolanin's picture

Blog post that I'll basically walk through for my preso:
https://www.acquia.com/blog/using-aws-ruby-sdk-put-drupal-sites-assets-b...

Slides from My Talk

seantwalsh's picture

Slides from last night, will post video shortly.
http://www.crowdcg.com/wp-content/uploads/Layout-Control-031314.pdf