presentation notes

Questions That Will be Covered

• What is Version Control and Why Would I Want To Implement it?
• What Makes Version Control Hard in Drupal?
• How Does Drupal Currently address this issue?

Demonstration time!

Other complimenting ideas
Deployment
Content Deployment

What is Version Control and Why Would I Want To Implement it?

Version control in very simple terms allows you to keep track of changes to a project.

Benefits include but are not limited to:

• Building features without disrupting the live version of a website.

The recent Drupal Camp Ct.was excellent. Perhaps a worthy subject for discussion. I'd be interested in hearing any highlights from sessions attended by fellow group members.

Unfortunately, I'll be away on vacation in mid-September, and will likely miss the next meeting. Here are my notes from the sessions I attended.

Some session highlights:
Learning how Yale implements their Web CMS
Interesting presentation from Nick Silkey - Yale Systems Admin:

Estimad@s amig@s,

Les doy el enlace a la presentación que estamos preparando en el grupo Drupal Bolivia sobre Drupal.

Por favor hagan sus aportes (lo bueno, lo malo, lo que se puede añadir, lo que se debe cambiar....) via los comentarios para que podamos concluir definitivamente este tarea para la Drupal Salteña del 28 de agosto.

http://www.hispaplus.com/drupalbolivia/presentacion-drupal-2.3.pptx o http://www.hispaplus.com/drupalbolivia/presentacion-drupal-2.3-97.ppt

Gracias a tod@s.

Slides for my "Achieving Awesome Drupal Design" presentation have been saved as a PDF document and are available for download. The PDF export did not work correctly for slides with lots of animation such as the design examples. Half of the design examples were from my workplace Image X Media so you can always visit our portfolio there to see many of the examples again. The presentation was taped and I'm sure that it will be online soon.

I recently did a presentation for the Vancouver Drupalers on how to abuse a list view into making a scheduling grid:

I've posted a write-up of the presentation in the Vancouver group. If you're interested, check out: http://groups.drupal.org/node/2647

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.

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.