Drupaldojo.com status
Hey, folks. Drupaldojo.com has been cleaned up a bit, with some new colour tweaks and a funktacular new Mini Lessons page. The carousel now only stocks lessons, so you'll have to use the mini-lesson/coffeetalk buttons to find those other links. Please take a moment to browse through drupaldojo.com and tell me what feature or adjustment you feel it needs most. C&C welcome!
New features:
-Re-organized
-Doodleboard!
Features that have been requested:
-separate links for torrent/non-torrent download of screencasts
-return of 'Resources' page
Now, more importantly:
Do you find yourself with twenty minutes to spare, a microphone and a burning desire to help your fellower drupalers?
Submit a mini-lesson! Choose an aspect of drupal you're familiar with, be it installing/configuring a module, information about your favorite hook, or how you built your last drupal site, and tell us about it!
Reasons this is awesome:
- You help your fellow man
- You build massive karma
- I'll build you an saucesome avatar.
Dojo presentation: color module integration
Hello everyone, I'll be going over the color module and how to integrate it into a theme. It's seldom used outside of Garland but I hope that'll change after this presentation.
To get the most out of the it, you should be familiar with Photoshop (especially slicing) and theming in general.
See you there!
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Dojo Lesson #17 - Summer of Code Cookoff
This Sunday, we'll have an informal session where Summer of Code mentors and students are welcome to come by, introduce themselves, and ask any questions they need answered before the big kick-off on Monday. Anyone is welcome to join in and listen or help answer questions, but please note that the this session is specifically geared toward getting our GSoCers up to speed.
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Theming in D6 - Garden Tour
Today we are going to take an impromptu tour through theming in D6, which promises to be quite different in a good way. Join us for today's walk through the theming garden of D6 to see what's bloomin'.
We will also be on Skype; the number will be posted shortly. Hosted by dvessel.
Read moreSummer of Code student Drupal information session
I've spoken with Josh K of the Drupal Dojo group (which, if you don't know about it, definitely go check it out -- it's like interactive peer-tutoring but so much cooler ;)). He's given me permission to hijack the Sunday, May 27 session slot to do a Q&A session for the Summer of Code students, to answer any questions you folks have before Summer of Code officially kicks off the next day!
The session will start at 11am PDT (California), which is (apparently) 2PM in NYC, 8PM in Hungary, 10PM in Moscow, and 11:30 PM in Sri Lanka (sorry :). It will go on for about 2 hours (or until we run out of steam). The session will also be recorded (both audio and screen) for those who can't make it. Others are more than welcome to show up too (I'm sure the information discussed will be valuable to a lot of folks), but I'd like this to be a session specifically geared toward getting our GSoCers up to speed.
So, what I need to know from folks is a list of questions/clarifications/general topics they'd like covered in this session. Long ago, in a kingdom far away, we came up with an outline as follows: http://docs.drupaldojo.org/getting-started-with-drupal-development ... anything in particular here (or that you've come across in the last few weeks) that grabs your fancy? We can walk you through parts of core, talk about higher-level API stuff, get into community history, explain how to use CVS, or just about anything else you can think of. :)
I'd like to hammer out a tentative agenda sometime towards the end of next week, so please comment and let me know what you'd like to see covered! Also, if as many mentors/students as possible could make it to this session, we could have a nice little introduction thing at the beginning. :)
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How-To: Become a Drupal Dojo Skyperator
Assuming you've read the article on How To Join A Live Dojo Lesson and you have participated in at least three live dojo sessions, you might be ready to step into a moderator capacity and become a Dojo Skyperator. Do you have a desire to lead? Can you moderate a conference call? Are you good at re-phrasing questions about Drupal? Take the following test and see...
- Have you downloaded the latest version of Skype for your platform? Yes or No
Lesson Proposal: Refactoring Book.module Into a Generic Outliner
__UPDATE: Work continues on the wiki page set up for this project.
A modest proposal for this weekend's lesson.
One of the things mentioned by Dries in his "State of the Drupal" talk at OSCMS was how nice it would be if book.module would turn into a more generic outline functionality, rather than being semi-attached to a specific node type. I've had the same thought myself, and with the code-freeze for Drupal 6.0 coming up in June it's now or never to get new features in.
So I say lets do it. I'm willing to do the majority of the coding, and to package the whole experience into one or more dojo lessons. If others would like to contribute to the effort that's more than welcome. Does this sound like a good topic for at least one lesson?
Read moreDojo Lesson #13 - Custom CCK Fields Redux!
This Sunday at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 8pm CET, Drupal Dojo regular Sam Tressler will take the teacher's position and walk through creating custom CCK fields. This is a replay of last week's lesson, which turned out to be an impromptu group collaboration on setting up a localhost sandbox. ;)
CCK, is the future and all, but how do we make fields do what we want them to? I mean, its no good to have an input field without validation and formatting options, is it? How does this stuff 'magically' show up in views?
Never fear, its all there, and we can go through it all step by step.
Check out the lesson plan wiki page, and join us on Sunday in the dojo!
The Drupal Dojo is a 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. We hold virtual lessons and produce practical developer documentation in both written and screencast form. 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 us in the Dojo!
Read moreDojo Lesson #12 - jQuery Resurrected
UPDATE: Raw Screencast Is Up! | Torrent file here
This Easter Sunday josh_k returns to the teachers spot in the Drupal Dojo to "resurrect" the lost jQuery lesson.
We'll be retracing our steps, and also forging ahead into new territory. Our mission? To show how easy it is to take your Drupal site to the cutting edge of User Interface with jQuery, talk about the tools and resources that make this easy, and outline some best-practices for security.
Oh, and get it all on video this time. Join us if you like at our usual time: 11am PDT / 2PM PDT / 8pm CET.
The Drupal Dojo is a 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. We hold virtual lessons and produce practical developer documentation in both written and screencast form. 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 us in the Dojo!
Read moreLightning Lesson: Dmitrig01 turns a PSD into a Drupal Theme (part 1 of 2)
In a new format, dmitrig01 offered to share his screen while he turned a PSD into a Theme. This is part 1, in which the theme is translated into Drupal-friendly HTML. Part 2 will cover the final process: making it into a theme.
Grab it here (alternate mp4 link here)
There is no audio, but simplymenotu asks a number of helpful questions in the always-visible IRC log.
It's an experimental format, but it was very easy to produce on the fly. I'm very curious what people think of this format.
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