Northern VA Users Group

A Drupal development environment includes your local and development servers, text editor, version control system, bug tracking system and shell configurations. A Drupal development workflow includes strategies for handling patches, deployment, updating a local site, server access and code management. An effective and standardized system greatly increases efficiency and reduces frustration for developers, whether freelance or part of a large team, but it can be difficult to set aside time to optimize your system or to get quick and practical help doing so.

On July 25th, just after the Capital Camp, Ben Jeavons and Greg Knaddison from Drupal Scout will be giving a training about how to secure your Drupal site.

The full day course is $450.

It is broken apart into several sections:

• Introduction to philosophy of development with a security focus
• Overview of most common vulnerabilities
• Specific review of Drupal's most common problems
• Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• Spam/automation
• Cross Site Request Forgeries CSRF

Description

Drupal is more than a content management system. It is a powerful data management framework with the flexibility to be shaped into just about any type of online experience your audience needs. In order to take advantage of this flexibility, you need to see beyond the web page and into the relationship between your site’s content and Drupal’s architecture.

Site Building with Drupal 7
This intensive one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from industry professionals and create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.

What you will learn:
* Basic setup and configuration

ISite Building with Drupal - Day 4: Drupal Layouts & Templates

Site building with Drupal - Day 1: Drupal in a day
This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from industry professionals and create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.

What you will learn:
* Basic setup and configuration

Due to inclement weather, the MD group meetup for January has been cancelled. We will reschedule shortly.

Come out to the MD Drupal meetup and brainstorm for a future Maryland Drupal Camp. The MD Drupal meetup is occurring on January 26th at PMG's offices in Columbia.

The meetup starts around 7PM and round table discussions will begin at 7:30.

While we usually accept presentations, we'd like to keep this meetup open discussion. If you have something really interested to present, please contact Ron (ron@lithicmedia.com or 410-726-7869) to see if we can add a spot for presentations.

The November DC Drupal meetup will be this coming Monday (November 8) starting at 7:00 pm at the upstairs bar at Stetson's.

This month instead of our usual lightning talks, we're asking folks to give two minute site tours. What's this? Your chance to show off your Drupal site, cool/unique/interesting functionality, or a fun design implemented on Drupal on the big screen. Anyone can give a tour - we ask that you keep it to two minutes and that you prepare a few slides (no more than 5-6) showing off your site and submit these slides by noon on Monday since there's no internet at Stetsons. Want to give a tour? Please post in the comments and get in touch with me.

The DC Drupal meetups are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it. Hope to see you there!

Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street.