Join us Tuesday night, April 12, 2016 for an official Los Angeles monthly meetup! It will be an entire night of Drupal goodies. All developers and designers welcome. Come see short presentations focused on the Drupal platform, including community talks designed to help you get ready for adopting, building, or updating sites on Drupal. There is usually material for all levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced users.
Come see what changes to Drupal and its related technologies provide users nowadays; find out how you will be building web sites on both Drupal 7 & 8 for the next few years!
Every month experts guide our local community showcasing professional Drupal techniques, industry standards, and best practices. LA Drupal brings a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. We help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal. Our meetups are a good place for Job seekers and employers to find talent. Also, we sometimes have raffle prizes that vary from Drupal books, DVD's, to online training subscriptions!!!
Where
This event is kindly hosted by ConSol Partners.
1409a 3rd Street Promenade,
Santa Monica, CA 90401
It is right in the middle of the Santa Monica Promenade above the Levi retail shop.
Parking: There are parking two garages within walking distance of ConSol's offices. One is on 4th Street between Santa Monica and Broadway, the other is also on 4th between Santa Monica and Arizona. The first 90 minutes are free, thereafter it costs $2 per additional hour. You may also be able to find other street parking in the area.
AGENDA
6:45pm-7pm Early Arrivals
* Venue setup
* LA Drupal Open Lab & Users Helping Users - Bring your laptop and Drupal questions, or contribute to an issue in the queue.
* Lightning Talk prep - need help getting a lightning talk together, show up to the pre-meetup lab and we can help!
* Early Networking - looking to chat with folks before the meetup begins, this is your chance.
7pm-9pm
* News & Announcements
* Job announcements
* Presentations - Monthly topics for Drupal developers and designers.
* Users Helping Users - bring up a question to the crowd and see how they can help you overcome your latest Drupal roadblock.
* Raffle prizes & Giveaways (when available)
* Networking - bring your business cards
9pm-Late
* Drupal After Dark - after the meetup come out to meet new friends, network, grab a drink or bite to eat. Details are posted in a comment each month (sometimes during the meetup). The British pub around the corner serves food, and there are additional restaurant options within walking distance.
Appreciation for our Sponsors
Venue & Wi-Fi: ConSol Partners: Give a shout! consolpartners
Food & Drinks: Also generously provided by ConSol Partners: Give another shout! consolpartners
Meetup Info
Users Helping Users and open Q&A
The general meetup begins at 7:00pm but the doors open a little earlier for Users Helping Users, which is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal. Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bonafide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!
Lightning talks
There may be time for lightning talks at this meetup.
Job announcements
At the beginning of each meetup LA Drupal provides an opportunity for local businesses to make job announcements and ask for referrals and recommendations.
Raffle! Prizes! Collect them all!
We love our sponsors and sometimes receive raffle prizes from our sponsors in the Los Angeles area and around the world. If you or your company would like to sponsor a raffle prize at the LA Drupal meetups, please come early or contact the LA Drupal managers.
Breakout Groups
As we've occasionally done, if there's time we'll split up into groups (sometimes called BoFs, or birds of a feather) and each group can jump into a particular topic that's set at the beginning of the meetup. The topics for these BoFs so far have ranged from high performance websites, Features-driven development, PCI compliance and general "getting started" discussions.
What to bring
Bring a co-worker, maybe your laptop or tablet, but definitely bring your business cards for networking. We do a lot of networking!
About LA Drupal
LA Drupal is Southern California's largest hub for all things Drupal, and is one of the world's largest regional Drupal user groups. We host a monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of every month. LA Drupal also produces the annual DrupalCamp LA conference, one of the largest annual volunteer Drupal networking and training events world-wide since 2007.
There are also other member led social gatherings and meetups throughout the southland. Visit http://groups.drupal.org/la/events for more details.
Attending LA Drupal events is one of the best ways to meet and talk with other Drupaleros and we encourage you to attend meetings and special events regularly. Whether it's about finding solutions to problems you've been having, sharing something you've learned or just meeting interesting like-minded people, the LA Drupal events are an essential resource for Drupal professionals and hobbyists alike.
How to become a member of LA Drupal
If you aren't already part of LA Drupal, it's easy to become a member (read below). LA Drupal has over 1,500 members, the official ways to become a member is by joining the LA Drupal group here: http://groups.drupal.org/la
- First, create an account at Drupal.org, which is the "master" site of groups.drupal.org.
- Once you have your Drupal.org account and have logged in, go to the LA Drupal home page at http://groups.drupal.org/la
- Finally, click the Join link found in the right sidebar. You'll be a member of LA Drupal after confirming your membership.
As a member of the LA Drupal community, you can participate in discussions, sign up & RSVP for events, post job announcements, vote, and send direct messages to people (via the "contact" tab on their profiles), and more.
LA Drupal welcomes you!
Changes and Notifications
For any changes to our agenda for the evening, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
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Comments
Presentations
Thanks for Todd's presentation.
If I get it, the idea is to put small widget blocks into "pseudo fields" in order to better manage them in the display interface (rather than templates) and put them anywhere where you can put fields. It's knowledge that belongs in everyone's general purpose Drupal toolkit but which it probably takes forever to find out about (because no one tells you and it isn't likely just to pop your head . . . although it did occur to someone who invented pseudo fields).
Also . . . Ashok's presentation about avoiding long cache clears that can bring down sites was also useful. It looks like he learned the hard way that Drush operations that AUTOMATICALLY run cache clear all can be a big liability.
Thanks to everyone that came
Thanks to everyone that came and sat through my presentation. I got some good feedback which I'll definitely incorporate into the second part (and probably also talk more about before I get into the config side of things for Drupal 8) next time. In the meanwhile, please be sure to checkout the Drupal 8 version of the module at https://www.drupal.org/fontyourface (this will be the 8.x-3.x-dev release) and you can view the slides at http://slides.com/btmash/d8-with-font-your-face
Peter's lightning talk about directly using the PDO layer to get rid of stuff is interesting. While its not always the recommended approach (since it could have ramifications on things you might not have considered), it is fine if you have considered all the areas that could be touched and figured out how to resolve them.
I had heard that Rick was doing running a learning meetup but I had not realized all the cool stuff he was doing. Our group had needed something like this for a while (esp since the Burbank meetup stopped) and I'm so happy to see Rick help is such a big way.
I think I should write up a
I think I should write up a "white paper" about the comment spam issue. "How to Get rid of 95,000 comment spams." I just configured Views Bulk Operations to delete 1,000 at a time. The difference between my nuclear option (total of 4 queries) and VBO (95,000 queries, one at a time):
Nuclear deletion option: 1 MINUTE to delete 95,000 spams
VBO: 6 1/3 HOURS to delete 95,000 spams
I think there's a story there . . . and a MODULE idea.
25 items/page
@Peter:
To me, the biggest problem is not being able to select/delete more than 25 items at a time. Unapproved comments problem might be more manageable if you could select several pages worth of items & delete all of those at a swat. I'm not sure how the select works so that you can only select items on one page at a time (even though you know you want to delete the next 150 items). Would fixing this problem be any easier?
Jeff
It is View Bulk Operations, not the regular Manage Comments page
The Bulk Operation that I created allows processing 1000 unapproved (presumably spam) comments at a time -- older than 30 days.
This is a separate page from the regular "manage comments" page.
http://sierra3.dd:8083/delete-spam-comments (on one of my local instances)
After it finishes that batch, it throws up the next 1000-item batch so that you can sit there deleting things to your hearts content in batches of 1000.
All of the items are UNAPPROVED. So you want to warn people before you use it. Give THEM time to check their blog comments and approve anything they want to approve.
Drupal Console
I used Drupal Console about a year and a half ago, when it was still pretty much in development -- and just before the Burbank meetups started. Ashok's Drupal 8 talk convinced me to download the latest and try it out again.
https://drupalconsole.com/
Not all that difficult to install.
Drupal Console ALAS!
The latest news for Drupal Console is that the latest release DROPS support for Drupal 8.0.x. Given that that is the version of Drupal that most people are using while 8.1.x is still in development, what is going on? It looks like they came across some sort of codebase problem moving forward and didn't want to fix it?
This seems to be FORCING people to upgrade to Drupal 8.1.x if they want to use DrupalConsole
https://drupalconsole.com/articles/drupal-console-alpha1-now-available
https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-8-1-0
8.1.0 just came out and at
8.1.0 just came out and at this point 8.0.x is not going to be seeing any further development. With drupal console, since its a php project, you can pin it down to a particular version using composer (see https://hechoendrupal.gitbooks.io/drupal-console/content/en/getting/comp...) and then use it with 8.0.x that way.
But my understanding is they are basically keeping it in line with what happens with core.