Posted by jhodgdon on June 13, 2019 at 9:20pm
Start:
2019-07-11 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next daytime meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, July 11, 2019, 10 AM to noon
We usually meet on a Thursday morning at a library out in the Spokane Valley area. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month).
- Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N Argonne Rd, Millwood. We are back in the (small) CONFERENCE ROOM, as no larger room at Argonne or any other valley-area branch was available for that date. Go into the library, past the checkout desk, turn right, and you'll see the room entrance on the right.
- To be reminded, sign up!
- To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table, and a laptop with a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!
- Need a ride?
- If transportation is keeping you from attending, please log in and post a comment here. Our usual attendees come from all around the area: downtown Spokane, South Hill, Mead, Hayden, Spokane Valley, Post Falls, etc. So, we can probably find someone to give you a ride without going too much out of their way.
Comments
Room reserved for Aug 15 too
I reserved us the large meeting room at Argonne library for August 15. Reservations for the larger meeting rooms seem to go fast, and they are available about 2 months ahead. I'll wait to set up the event announcement page here until after our July meeting, to try to avoid too much confusion. :)
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Tomorrow: small room in Argonne library
Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's Spokane Drupal Group meeting -- we will be in the small room in the Argonne library this time. See you tomorrow!
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Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit - Seattle - not until 2020!
- BADCamp - Oct 2-5 in Berkeley CA https://2019.badcamp.org/ -- Shawn suggests taying at the Berkeley Y https://www.ymcaeastbay.org/specialty-locations/berkeley-y-hotel -- less than 1 block from the Shattuck Hotel event venue. Jennifer says the Travelodge is also fine (a few blocks away).
- There is a calendar for other Drupal events:
https://groups.drupal.org/events
and for DrupalCon in particular: https://events.drupal.org/ (next one is in Amsterdam)
You can also make "progressive" IOS and Android apps using React Native (they can interact with the phone hardware, and also with your Drupal database back end). They use the native UI widgets on the mobile device.
There's a proposed training at BADCamp about React. Go to BADCamp!
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/development-tools/xdebug-debugger
https://randyfay.com/content/remote-drupalphp-debugging-xdebug-and-phpstorm
There is also a profiler that will tell you where time is being spent:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/development-tools/xhprof-code-profiler
https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
https://www.drupal.org/about/features/accessibility
- Use the Rules module to detect and unpublish expired events (carefully) -- best way is probably to have an Expiration Date field on the event and detect based on that
- Somehow in displaying the item, detect that it is expired and add a watermark to show it is expired or in the past (with text for accessibility). Maybe a calculated field?
- Maybe a date formatter that shows it is in the past?
- Make it so that your Search Site is a view instead of using the default Drupal search module
- Two types -- one for search engines (XML sitemap) and one for humans
- Drupal module: https://www.drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap (we think it does both types)
- Easy Breadcrumb -- uses URL of pages to deduce breadcrumbs https://www.drupal.org/project/easy_breadcrumb
- Menu Breadcrumb -- uses menus (you select which) to deduce breadcrumbs https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_breadcrumb
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/database-api
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon