Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, December 11, 2014

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Posted by pwolanin on December 4, 2014 at 1:45am
Start: 
2014-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/218937555/

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

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

- Chris (cilefen) Importing data from a web interface with Symfony to make Drupal objects
- Levi (wheatpenny) project VDD and an overview of local Drupal dev environments

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.

- John Bowen - questions on the Drupal Rooms distribution.
- [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.

- Matt Korostoff - experiences with Drupal 8
- Sean (crowdcg) - Using Admin Views for fun and profit

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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Mobile/Responsive Navigation

Posted by seantwalsh on December 4, 2014 at 9:52pm
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I could do a quick 10 minute talk on different ways to implement mobile navigation, looking at modules, themes, and roll your own.

PHPStorm again?

Posted by ednawig on December 5, 2014 at 2:21am
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I think that is left over from last month?

indeed - copy/paste failure

Posted by pwolanin on December 5, 2014 at 6:50pm
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indeed - copy/paste failure

VDD

Posted by wheatpenny on December 10, 2014 at 10:34pm
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I can do a quick rundown of local hosting environments with a focus on what I use, which is www.drupal.org/project/vdd.

Importing data from a web interface

Posted by cilefen on December 11, 2014 at 2:24am
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I could say a few words about a small data integration we are prototyping that uses Symfony to expose data on a web interface. A Drupal site creates nodes and taxonomy terms from this data via the migrate module.

Added Chris and Levi to the

Posted by pwolanin on December 11, 2014 at 6:20pm
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Added Chris and Levi to the start of the agenda (or we can put Levi at the end)

I've been hacking on some D6 + SMTP code if we need some more code to look at

Here's the bundle Chris is

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 12:20am
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Here's the bundle Chris is talking about to build a REST API:
https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle

Actually that bundle

Posted by cilefen on December 12, 2014 at 12:33am
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Actually that bundle documents an API - it need not be REST. There are other modules for building a REST API, notably https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle.

Here's an example of an

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 1:03am
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Here's an example of an attempt to match the Acquia environment in Vagrant: https://github.com/geerlingguy/acquia-cloud-vm

Drupal PCI Compliance white

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 1:08am
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Drupal PCI Compliance white paper:
http://drupalpcicompliance.org/

Matt's blog post:

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 1:18am
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Matt's blog post: http://mattkorostoff.com/article/27-questions-and-answers-drupal-8

Holy theme debug Batman! See

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 1:30am
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Holy theme debug Batman! See the release note - a feature backported from Drupal 8:

https://www.drupal.org/drupal-7.33-release-notes

to enable it:

drush vset theme_debug 1

to disable it:

drush vdel --yes theme_debug

Daily ebook giveaway:

Posted by pwolanin on December 12, 2014 at 5:59pm
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Daily ebook giveaway: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/christmas-countdown