DrupalCorn Meeting

Above: migrate module in action.

Are your copy and paste muscles getting fatigued? Do you have data sitting in a MySQL table or CSV file but want it in Drupal fields? Are you frightened when the Migrate module documentation intones, "if you do not have object-oriented programming skills in PHP, this module is not for you?"

Nonsense!

"...,Travis CI[1] is a hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test projects hosted at GitHub."[2] By trial and error, I have been able to build my Drupal platform, luggage[3], on Travis-CI and have it pass the most basic tests.[4] I'll walk you through how I did it but leave you hanging on where I'm going with this next.

Since the normal meeting this month is only a week away from DrupalCorn we're scaling back and unwinding a bit at Brick City Grill. Feel free to come and go as you please. There will be no formal presentation, but plenty of discussion.

LOCATION

Brick City Grill. 2704 Stange Rd. Ames, IA 50010

Please do sign up so we know how big of an area to get and you will get a reminder e-mail the day before.

Adding faceted Apache Solr searching to your site can be a big win. Imagine your users, big grins on their faces, drilling down through your content to find that one piece of content they are looking for. But wait! How to make your taxonomy terms link directly into faceted search?

John will share how we solved this problem simply and consistently across our sites.

Faceted taxonomy Solr search utopia, Thursday night. Be there:

This month's meeting is sneaking up on us. So, we leave the floor open to whatever you want to talk about. Bring your topics, problems or solutions. We'll decide which topic by Condorcet Voting.

Thursday, May 8 7p - 9p. Room 9 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University. (The room across the hall from our normal meeting room)

LOCATION

Drupal 8 has been on the horizon for over a year now. It is currently in alpha and will hopefully be going into beta releases soon. For this meeting we're going to try to build something simple in Drupal 8 just to get a taste of what is coming down the road. There will be bugs. We don't know much about D8 yet, so this might end up being a collaborative demo and learning experience for all.

The Crop Registry is a curated registry of online ISU crop knowledge collections (websites, databases, other) populated by the community.

One of the biggest strengths of Drupal is the ability to extend and modify its behavior with modules. There are over 8,000 Drupal 7 modules on Drupal.org (14,505 total over all versions)! All of these modules are open source and free for you to use on your Drupal site. If there is a feature you want on your site, chances are someone already wrote a module to help you implement it.

Recently, I was drug deep into Git. Weeks later, i've stumbled out of the woods. I learned a great deal but I'm not sure if I'm wiser. I'll leave that judgment up to you.

For your entertainment, I'll try to recreate the scene and show how I found a use for:

git submodule foreach git fetch *yes that is one command

git remote add luggage https://github.com/ISUITC/luggage.git

And
git stash

Happy Holidays! I invite you to join in our first meeting for this Camp to be held on December 18 at noon on IRC (irc.freenode.net) channel “drupalcorn”. DrupalCorn Camp has grown immensely each year through volunteers, sponsors, participation, training, and most recently a sprint because of leaders like you. If you are a veteran of the camp or wanting to learn more, please join us for this informational meeting.