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If a web designer is one of the 20% of Americans who cannot read the normal font sizes of Drupal black drop down administrative menues at the top of each pate, his/her only current solution appears to be changing the Zoom in the browser--typically to 150% or larger. However if that is done, some of the menues extend beyond the bottom of the screen. If the user mouses to the scroll bar to scroll down to see the whole drop down menu, the menu disappears. The cursor must be on the black menu somewhere in order to keep the menu visiable.

I just thought I post a little information about a presentation I am going to be giving at the October meetup. At the last meetup, I was asked if I would mind giving a presentation on the use of GitHub in managing Drupal projects. We have pretty much switched all of our development versioning to Git at CollectiveColors.com, because it has shown to have significant benefits in our own development processes.

Git makes it easier for us because:

1. It allows us to better collaboratively develop our software while minimizing the impact of code conflicts.
2. Allows us to easily track what we have developed.
3. Branching and merging of repositories is a breeze.
4. It is very easy to turn any directory tree into a Git repository.
5. Git submodules are perfect for Drupal development.

We have learned a lot of really cool methods for managing software projects using Git and GitHub, so we figured that we would share some of what we have learned in our journey so far. Although, I have a rough outline of what I want to talk about during this presentation, I am open to hearing your suggestions, after all I'm not presenting to myself.

So what I am thinking so far? ...

Hi all,

I am re-purposing my blog site slightly. It's always been a blog and it's fairly popular, but it used to be just me. I'm throwing the doors open (well, within reason) to other authors. If you're a Drupal developer based in the UK or in Ireland, or you're from the UK or Ireland but based elsewhere, and you'd like a platform to share Drupal knowledge from, ping me and let me know:
http://www.drupaler.co.uk

And in case you're wondering, I'll still be an active blogger on there too. =)

Rgds,

Greg

If you had an API which fed in listings of events going on all around the country what would you do with it? And how would you deliver it to the end user? Mash it up with Google Maps? Flickr? Facebook? Twitter?

There's been quite a lot of request for a Zen theming session (http://drupal.org/project/zen) so wanted to know if this is something that most of you will be keen to come along to? if there is enough people that wish to attend, i'll see what can be done, ie:

• A date most of you can attend
• A free venue to host the session or any company wanting to sponsor this event.

If you would like to contact me direct to discuss this further, please use: http://drupalscotland.org/contact

Thanks,

Hallo zusammen,

ich hoffe dass ich hier richtig bin und auch einen Eintrag einstellen darf.

Schon seit längerer Zeit vermissse ich zum Thema Modulerstellung diverse Literatur oder/und gut verständliche Referenzbücher. Auch im online Handbuch kam ich (trotz befolgen aller Angaben, hundertmal kontrolliert) nicht soweit, dass ich ein kleines Modul zum laufen gebracht hätte, da anscheinend ein Attribut falsch angegeben ist???

So nun aber zu meiner Frage:

Hi All,

I recently got into mobile web development and I am working out some solutions in making your blog / website mobile. I have written a tutorial on my blog, http://www.mobiledrupal.com. Here is the immediate link to the blog

SOHO Life has a really nice office in Sheung Wan, literally a minutes walk from exit C. The rooms have projectors and wifi access, it's perfect for our meetings.

Nick and I have arranged to work on the SOHO Life website, and hope to complete it before December 6, 2008 (the day of http://openeverything.hk/2008/) since they are the venue sponsor for that event.

My book review pasted from Amazon.com. I reviewed the book for the publisher but that never guarantees a good review, so read on.

I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, to newbies and non-newbies I offer the following review.

If you're impatient and don't want to read this review all the way, then just know this book must be read by each programmer who will be tinkering with Drupal, so yes, I recommend it. This book is not for people learning how to use modules, this is for people who plan to code and build their own modules. This book is not large, has great learning material, and brings tons of info down from Drupal's web site documentation into stress-free chapters. One entire chapter (Ch. 2) covers how to do an entire module from scratch and following chapters show how expand that module and build, and build, and really get to know important APIs that come with Drupal core.

In all honestly, I'm jealous that most new users get to read something as collected as this to learn from. If you read this book you'll basically catch up with content I took months, if not over a year to explore and read online. I had also held off heavy Drupal 6 development for myself until a book like this came out, so we're in the same boat.

Great meeting today!

Thanks for those who attended. I have attached a PDF version of my presentation at http://ucit01.uncc.edu/node/308

Related links here:

Subversion Book - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
ZigVersion - http://zigzig.com/content/view/15/29/
Drupal SVN Discussion - http://agaricdesign.com/agarics-svn-repository-structure-for-site-mainte...
Vendor Drop Info/Updating Drupal using vendor drops - http://www.davidgrant.ca/maintaining_vendor_sources_with_subversion