Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, November 13, 2014

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Start: 
2014-11-13 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! This month we are excited to have a guest speaker presenting on PhpStorm and Drupal as a part of our continued format!

Room 004 - one of the bowls in Friend center lower level.

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 the Princeton Friend Center, lower level.

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

- A Lesson in Security (Peter)
- [Slot 2]

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) 60 minutes- David Dagino - PhpStorm and Drupal
"The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work." - Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 2 1969.

Discover new joy in your daily Drupal development by adding PhpStorm to your toolbox. This talk will be in the context of PhpStorm 8 and a new Drupal 7 project and we'll cover various ways to set up a project and the pros/cons of each; how to install and use Live Templates; using the debugger- pitfalls, and words of caution; refactoring code; integrating with MySQL, Drush, Composer; Local History- what it is and how to use it alongside traditional version control; useful plugins; Drupal 8 and whatever tips and tricks we can cram in.

WHERE

Join us in 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

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Pre-Meetup Pizza at 6:30pm

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Happy to announce that we will once again be having pizza and networking starting at 6:30pm, so come early and grab a slice!

Also we are still looking for some site showcases and/or questions. If you're interested, just post a comment here.

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