A group dedicated to the Drupal users of Northern Virginia, where technology is a way of life.
ISO web hosting services for federal Drupal sites
I am helping out, and possibly at one point working for, a federal contractor who is switching a federal agency's sites over to Drupal, and needs to know which companies are handling hosting service for federal Drupal sites in addition to Acquia. And, in fact, this seems to also be a good thing to know.
Feel free to contact me at email3@pbzproductions.com. Many thanks!
Patty Zevallos
web architect/content producer
www.pbzproductions.com
Drupal NoVA Meetup
Join us for our monthly Drupal NoVA meetup.
Location: The Conference Center at ICF International
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax VA 22031
Parking: Visitor section of Garage
Metro: Vienna Metro station, Orange Line
We'll start with some socializing, do a round of intros and presentations, more socializing!
Tremolo Security will be presenting on:
-Integrating Drupal into an Enterprise Identity Management System
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Difference between Drupal for "consumers" and Drupal for enterprise from a security and identity standpoint
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How Drupal 6 and 7 manage identity
Drupal NoVA Meetup - Best Practices: Drupal and Javascript with Bryan Braun
Our regular meetup is the third Tuesday of every month - currently rotating between ICF and Bixal in Fairfax.
Join us for our monthly Drupal NoVA meetup.
Bryan Braun from Acquia will be doing a presentation on Javascript and Drupal, highlighting best practices and tips for effective use of Javascript.
Read moreCANCELLED! Drupal NoVA Meetup: Best Practices - Javascript with Drupal
This meetup will be cancelled due to inclement weather.
Our regular meetup is the third Tuesday of every month - currently rotating between ICF and Bixal in Fairfax.
Join us for our monthly Drupal NoVA meetup.
We'll start with some socializing, do a round of intros and presentations, more socializing!
Presentations will include:
Module Review: Kelly Hedges - Honeypot Module
Presentation: Bryan Braun - Best Practices - Using Javascript with Drupal.
Read moreDrupal NoVa Meetup – Food, Drinks and Planning for 2014
Please join us on December 17th at 7pm for the next Drupal NoVA meetup at Bixal.
We'll be getting together for some food, drinks, networking and a brainstorm to plan Drupal NoVA's activities for 2014.
If you can't make the meetup, please feel free to send an email to Carla (carla.briceno@bixal.com) or Kelly (Kelly.Hedges@icfi.com) with any topic(s) you'd like to present on or would like to see.
Read more[Free] Build your First Mobile App in one Day with HTML5, jQuery, PhoneGap & Usergrid - Arlington, VA!
Join us for a free one-day training course to learn everything you need to know to build your first mobile app — with HTML5 + PhoneGap + jQuery + Usergrid! It’s a perfect way to get into the mobile app world if you’re a web developer.
The class has been taken by over 3,000 people in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Seattle and more!
This training is completely free (and all the software & services we’ll be using are too — most of them are even open-source)
N.B.: the same class is also offered in Bethesda on Wednesday 12/4
Read moreDrupal NoVa Meetup – Drupal Commerce & GIT
Our regular meetup is the third Tuesday of every month - currently rotating between ICF and Bixal in Fairfax. Join us for our monthly Drupal NoVA meetup!
We'll start with some socializing, do a round of intros, and have two presentations:
- John Franklin from Sentai Digital will discuss workflows using Git
- Jared Smith from Blue Host will present and demo Drupal Commerce
Then we'll do some more socializing.
Read moreCo-Working Day — Bixal
Come work on your projects on Friday, October 18, 9am-5pm!
We'll meet at Bixal, located in Fairfax, VA at the intersection of 123 (Chain Bridge Rd.) and Jermantown Rd., which is next to the 123 exit of 66, roughly a couple of miles from the Vienna/Fairfax metro station.
Read moreneed recommendation for web hosting service
I need to find a web hosting service for one client who will have a small volume of clients and for one who will start small and gradually increase in volume. I am not satisfied with the web hosting service I am using. They will be using, of course, Drupal sites. Is there any company you would recommend? Please contact Patty Zevallos at email3@pbzproductions.com. Thanks!
Read moreDrupal NoVa Meetup - Developing Mobile Apps with PhoneGap and AngularJS
Please join us on October 22 at 7pm at Bixal for the next Drupal NoVA meetup.
William Hurley from Forum One will be doing a presentation on how to use PhoneGap and AngularJS to develop mobile applications...
...and Emeline Glynn will share what she learned while building capitalcityshowcase.com, including a small custom module she wrote and the configuration choices behind her site. She will cover Views, Feeds Tamper, Field Collection, and other modules used on the site, some cool SASS code she wrote, as well as her custom responsive AdaptiveTheme subtheme.
Free Webinar: Building a Sustainable EPA.gov
The Environmental Protection Agency’s presence at EPA.gov is constantly growing and evolving. A year ago, their technology platform was closed and inflexible. They needed a new platform and process for migrating their legions of websites to a new Content Management System.
In this webinar, we examine the challenges and rewards we uncovered while using Drupal to bring EPA’s legacy websites into the modern, mobile age. Learn how Forum One and EPA accommodated hundreds of non-technical content authors with unconventional approaches to responsive design, editorial workflows, and advanced layouts.
Government projects often bring additional challenges such as fixed budgets and tight schedules. Members of EPA’s team will be on hand to share how an Agile Scrum process worked well within these constraints.
Date: Friday, October 4, 2013
Time: 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT)
Cost: Free
Drupal NoVa Meetup - Come Learn about the Demo Framework
Date/Time: September 17th, 7:00pm
Location: The Conference Center at ICF International
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax VA 22031
Parking: Visitor section of Garage
Metro: Vienna Metro station, Orange Line
Please RSVP here.
Join us for our monthly Drupal NoVA meetup!
Rohan from Acquia will be discussing a new distribution called the "Demo Framework". The distribution is designed to be a basis for building demos for clients.
Read moreDrupal Co-Working Day - Northern VA
Come work on your Drupal projects Thursday, August 29, 9am-5pm! We'll meet at Bixal, located in Oakton, VA at the intersection of 123 (Chain Bridge Rd.) and Jermantown Rd., which is next to the 123 exit of 66, roughly a couple of miles from the Vienna/Fairfax metro station.
Bixal
3050 Chain Bridge Rd, Suite 310
Oakton, VA
Please register here. Thanks, and see you on the 29th!
Read moreDrupal NoVa Meetup - Debrief on Capital Camp and Drupal4Gov and Demo of Proty
Please join us on August 20 at 7pm at Bixal for the next Drupal NoVA meetup.
We'll spend some time sharing interesting things learned from two events - Capital Camp and Drupal4Gov.
We will also have the team from Forum One here sharing a great new prototyping tool they have developed called Proty (see description below!
Please register here. Thanks and we look forward to seeing you on 8/20!
NoVA Drupal Meetup
Location: The Conference Center at ICF International
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax VA 22031
Parking: Visitor section of Garage
Metro: Vienna Metro station, Orange Line
Join us for the next Drupal NoVA meetup!
At this meetup, we're giving everyone (who wants to) five minutes to share their favorite module.
To avoid duplication, please review this list before adding the module you want to share. If you want to share more than one, sign up for more, and we'll rotate depending on the number of people who want to share.
Read moreCapital Camp ~ Level Up your Themer D2 training
The perfect continuation of Level up your Themer: Day 1, in Level up your Themer: Day 2 Chapter Three will dive into a whole host of techniques to tackle any theming challenge. This course is also ideally suited to folks who have already taken any of our Theme Development workshops in the past.
Read moreCapital Camp ~ Level Up your Themer training
What level themer are you? Ever wanted to upgrade your skill set and take your theming beyond your comfort zone?
Read moreCapitalCamp Schedule Announced!
Session Schedule Announced!
The CapitalCamp session schedule has been posted and we have a great line-up this year from site building, to development, to design/ux to business and government topics, you are sure to what you are looking for!
Check out the schedule and plan out your CapitalCamp weekend!"
CapitalCamp Trainings
Read moreDISCUSS: Noncompete agreements for contractors or employees
I would be curious to get your feedback regarding the non-compete agreements that companies often have employees or contractors sign. Many of us doing work in Drupal run across these all the time. Although some protection for the company seems fair, some agreements I have seen seem to go way too far and seem to prevent someone from making a living.
Read moreDrupal Co-Working Day - Northern VA
Join us on June 28 for a co-working day at Bixal. In the afternoon, sometime between 2 and 4, we'll be holding an informal discussion on multilingual Drupal (internationalization [i18n] and localization [l10n]), for those who'd like to join in and learn, share your insights or ask questions.
Here are a few resources on the topic if you'd like to review them beforehand:
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