October Tampa Bay Meetup

Just chiming in on this post to remind people about it, since it's been close to 2 months since our last meetup (due to timing shift for October). Looking forward to it.

-Chris

2 of us will be eating!

Had a great meeting, with a couple new faces.

Attendance: Mike, Joe, Chris, Shawn, Pam, Adam, Cynde, Willow, Danielle? (sorry didn't catch your name)

Mike gave a presentation showing off the Acquia install stacks. He touched on them all, but demoed the Windows Stack.

Notes from the presentation:

• Download Acquia from www.acquia.com/downloads
• During setup:
  • He recommended that you use something different than "admin" for your initial account, for security reasons (something like clientnameAdmin, or projectnameAdmin, etc.)
  • Follow the prompts, most defaults are fine
  • Noted that it defaults to a non-standard port number for the web server, 8082. Standard web port is port 80.
• Discussed where Acquia places it's default themes and modules, which are in the root folders of the same name
  • It was mentioned that if you are going to use the Acquia subscription service, it's likely fine to leave everything where it is as that's where Acquia will expect them to be
  • If on the otherhand you're going to be using it as a standard Drupal install, he recommended that you move the acquia directories into more standard locations and rename as needed (modules/acquia becomes /sites/all/modules and /themes/acquia becomes /sites/all/themes)
• Discussed the basics of multi-site setup, and mentioned that it's possible to have separate sites on the same code base (multi-site) that share the same users table (shared/single sign-on)

We also had some general discussion and questions, as well as some specific questions. A quick recap of those:

• Interesting modules to check out
  • Module Filter - http://drupal.org/project/module_filter - makes the modules page more navigable, less of a headache
  • Arrange Fields - http://drupal.org/project/arrange_fields - provides wysiwyg placement of form fields, including CCK fields for content edit pages
  • Domain Access - http://drupal.org/project/domain - Run multiple sites from the same database/install, also allows for granular control so you have only certain pages display on certain sites, but the bulk of pages are the same through all sites, etc.
• Discussed some basics of Facebook integration options (there's a module for that..., and for many items you can simply use FB embedded javascript code in your templates, etc.)

That's all I've got from notes and memory. Feel free to add anything else to the thread, and look forward to the next meeting!

-Chris

Thanks for the great recap Chris. Excellent details. I'm looking forward to trying out the "Module Filter" and "Arrange Fields" modules soon.