Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton! Discussion of any relevant PHP or web development-related topic is welcome.
Room TBD - on the lower floor of the Friend Center building
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.
Be sure to come out for networking, presentations, and more! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30pm, with presentations starting at 7pm.
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
- Levi (wheatpenny) - Magic Module
- John (jcloys) - Quiz module
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.
- Stephen (elegantsolutions) - what are Varnish and Redis and how does Drupal use them?
- [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.
- Chris (cilefen) - AJAX API
- [Slot 2]WHERE
Join us in the Friend Center building 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.
Comments
Still looking for some
Still looking for some questions, demos, and other things for this Thursday's meetup. Leave a comment if you have something to ask or share!
add-on server software
From discussion at the meetup are add-on servers in 2 broad categories
Apples (capable of load balancing and http caching):
Oranges (in-memory object cache):
Examples and documentation on the Ajax framework
https://github.com/cilefen/mymodule
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!ajax.inc/group/ajax/7
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21core.api.php/group/ajax/8
... and #states
#states form reference
Varnish book section to learn
Varnish book section to learn about cache headers and interaction:
https://www.varnish-software.com/book/3/HTTP.html
Page on the problem of wanting Varnish and the browser to have different TTLs
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleLongerCaching