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Making a Scheduling Grid with Views Presentation Write-Up

As promised, a write-up of my presentation at the January Drupalers meeting.

My name is Dale McGladdery, and I'm a Drupala ... sorry, wrong meeting. Here we go.

Northern Voice Scheduling Grid

The Views module via theming allows custom formatting of list views using PHP code. This formatting method, combined with CCK, can be used to provide a data driven schedule grid. This was used to create the Northern Voice scheduling grid: 2007.northernvoice.ca/schedule.

Northern Voice Scheduling Grid Clip

This Views feature was also used to create the Northern Voice FAQ page: 2007.northernvoice.ca/faq

My apologies for people looking for an exact how-to. This will, I'm positive, give you enough information to recreate the grid, but it isn't a complete set of step-by-step instructions.

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joshk's picture

Dojo Lesson #6 -- Theming and the Themer Pack

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2007-02-05 03:00 Etc/GMT-8

Speed, strength, module hooksI'm back on to give another Dojo Lesson this coming Sunday at the usual time: 11am PST / 2PM EST / 4PM Buenos Ares / 8PM Belgium/Hungary. We'll convene in #drupal-dojo, and on our Skype/VNC lesson session and spend a couple hours addressing topics of concern to up-and-coming Drupalists.

UPDATE: Screencast torrent for this lesson is available.

UPDATE: Sunday's Lesson Will Be Focused On The Drupal 5 Themer Pack. There's also another g.d.o group for this if you find it very exciting. We'll talk about the aims of the project, cover drupal theme concepts in general, and get down and dirty with some template files.

The Drupal Dojo is a new community group dedicated to spreading best-practices and helping developers who are new to the system get up to speed and become masters in their own right. There's a shortage of Drupal talent, and everybody knows it. If you're a newcomer looking for help in grokking the system or an old hand who's tired of being told to clone yourself, consider joining the Dojo!

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Contributed modules status - version 5.x

This is an informal list of plans for contributed modules being ported to 5.x.

The plans below consist of informal guesstimates by the maintainers/wiki page contributors and no one should expect exact delivery dates. But please try to include info that is as accurate as possible in order for this wiki page to be credible.

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Gerhard Killesreiter's picture

Building a Drupal benchmarking test suite

Hi there, I have some interest in building a Drupal becnhmarking suite that can be used for testing the impact of newly proposed patches on our beloved content managemanet framework.

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Walt Esquivel's picture

Congrats to groups.drupal.org as it surpasses 10,000 group subscriptions!

As of today, g.d.o now has 10,385 group subscriptions! Surpassing 10,000 is, in my opinion, an important milestone that warrants a note of congratulations!

g.d.o will, in my opinion, continue to grow and improve. Thanks to everyone who has helped make it the incredibly useful and productive community that it is. I'm proud and happy to be a part of it. A particular note of thanks goes, of course, to Moshe.

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Final dates for Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

Finally, we have some dates and place for a next Drupalcon in Barcelona this September 2007:

Dates: 19th - 22nd, this is Wednesday till Saturday
Place: citilab in Cornellà (Barcelona) (http://www.citilab.eu)

google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cornella+barcelona+spain&sll=37....

See a picture of the venue: http://flickr.com/photos/garrigos/354219750/

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Dojo Lesson #2 -- Coding Standards

Start: 
2007-01-12 12:00 - 14:00 Etc/GMT-8

Only local images are allowed.
The Drupal Dojo will convene again this Thursday at 8pm EST (GMT -5). We will gather in #drupal-dojo, get on a worldwide Skypecast and fire up an improved screen-sharing application to do our lesson. We will also take time to debrief the work so far, talk about what we'd like to do going forward, and answer misc questions about the group and about Drupal.

The Lesson Plan

  • Sound Check: make sure everyone can get on Skype and is in IRC
  • Debrief: talk about how we've been doing, also about moving the regular lesson time to Sunday and/or starting other times
  • Drupal Coding Standards: what they are; why they matter
  • Keeping Your Code Clean: where to put stuff; how not to kludge
  • Keeping Your Code Safe: how and why to use Drupal functions for text, links, input fields and database queries
  • Making Your Code Intelligible: the tao of commenting
  • Dojo Challenge!: review a patch for Drupal 5.0
  • Documentation: lets keep the great documentation coming!

Feel free to comment on this post with feedback. I'm especially interested in collecting links to documentation folks may want to read ahead of time, and/or we should look at improving as a result of this lesson.

See you in the Dojo!

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dasil003's picture

Rails and Drupal are Complementary

I've been using Ruby on Rails for at least 18 months, and it is an amazing application framework. However, it's not suitable for all projects. For one thing, hosting is much more demanding and less mature. If you don't have at least $50/month for a VPS or equivalent you are not going to get the reliability you can get with PHP relatively cheaply.

The other thing is that Rails is geared primarily towards applications. In terms of arbitrary functionality, Rails is really the best thing going. It gives the web app developer tools to create raw web interfaces very very efficiently. Probably more efficiently than is even possible in PHP due to Ruby's dynamic language features like method_missing? and dynamic class modification.

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alex_b's picture

Asynchronous node loading

In the last couple of weeks we were working with Avi Mehta on a module that allows for asynchronously loading nodes. The module provides an interface to views as well as themable functions for the ones among us who love to tinker. An asynchronous pager like on http://www.searchmash.com/search/drupal is also in the works. There is a concept for asynchronously loading blocks.

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mki's picture

Everything is a field

The most abstract concept in my opinion: "everything is a field" (fully atomic value) instead of "everything is a node". CCK is ardent proof that this idea could work. If that's the case, we can share the same field (as regards value), node is just a set of fields tie together by new relationships system, whereas content type is a predefined set of relationships between fields.

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