Posted by jpw1116 on June 19, 2014 at 6:36pm
Start:
2014-06-25 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
As usual our monthly meetup is this Wednesday (the last Wed. of each month).
Agenda
This month will be open topic, with an emphasis on infrastructure.
Please attend and invite others.
Location and Directions
Coffee Culture
6 Court St.
Batavia, NY 14020
Special thanks to the pioneers at Webozy for making these meetings happen.
Comments
Who'll be there tonight? I
Who'll be there tonight? I was planning to come this week if it's still on.
Oh, it's on. . . .
Summertime is always hit-and-miss attendancewise, but you're more than welcome to drop in. We start at 7 and it lasts until 8:30 or 9, depending on the crew.
I was hoping we could cover Docker and Kalabox a bit, since they've both been in the news lately, along with headless Drupal and anything else people had on their minds.
Thanks!
Sample links. . . .
Docker
Triangle DevOps Meetup at Bronto: Docker (June 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv2532tkkcY
Rob Knight's Blog: Drupal on Docker (May 2013) http://robknight.org.uk/blog/2013/05/drupal-on-docker/
Acquia/Ricardo Amaro: The new Docker testbot that will power Drupal Quality Assurance (April 2014) http://www.acquia.com/blog/new-docker-testbot-will-power-drupal-quality-assurance
Docker Blog: ANNOUNCING DOCKER HUB AND OFFICIAL REPOSITORIES (June 2014) http://blog.docker.com/2014/06/announcing-docker-hub-and-official-repositories/
Kalabox
Mike Pirog: Kalabox. Advanced Web Tools for the People. (June 2014) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kalabox/kalabox-advanced-web-tools-for-the-people
Alec Reynolds: WHAT KALABOX CAN DO FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION (2014) http://www.kalamuna.com/news/what-kalabox-can-do-your-organization
Andrew Mallis: INTRODUCING KALABOX (June 20`13) http://www.kalamuna.com/news/introducing-kalabox
Headless Drupal
G.d.o: Headless Drupal https://groups.drupal.org/headless-drupal
David Hwang/Acquia: Headless Drupal, Client-Side Templating, and the Futre of Layouts (DrupalCon Austin, June 2014) https://austin2014.drupal.org/bof/headless-drupal-client-side-templating-and-future-layouts
Rob Koberg: Headless Drupal 8 and AngularJS theme - Separation of Concerns (June 2014) http://www.koberg.com/2014/06/08/headless-drupal-8-and-angularjs-theme-separation-of-concerns/
Sounds good. Barring
Sounds good. Barring unforeseens I'll go over after work. Headless sounds interesting -- we could use it to deliver some stuff we're using ColdBox and bespoke databases for, now. Neither Docker nor Kalabox had popped up on my radar, though the latter could potentially be really useful in a short term.
I can give you the benefit of a couple months more experience with Mura. Basically a lot of the UX is worlds beyond anything you can easily get out of Drupal, and they've done a good job anticipating the pareto fit on most of their features, but overall it's kind of weak. E.g., it's totally driven by IA -- it appears to be more or less impossible to specify an arbitrary URL path. And there are some weird IA decisions. E.g., by default, H1 on all pages is the site title. They actually went to a fair amount of work for that one, because it required configuring the stylesheets and CKEditor to obfuscate the fact.
Site Preview System
Site Preview System is the preview module I mentioned at the meeting:
https://www.drupal.org/project/sps
It's beta, with the most recent stable version almost 2 years old, but dev releases up to a month ago. Very low adoption (13 sites), however, and comments in the preview issue thread lead me to believe the method being used is totally different from what Webchick is driving toward for D8.
Thank you, Eric! . . .
Much appreciated. We need to share more info like this, here!