Meeting

Earlier this year, John Albin gave a presentation to BDUG on "Rethinking responsive building techniques with Drupal."

This session is a follow-up to John's presentation where I'll get into some of the details of Responsive Web Theming with Zen 5, Sass, and Compass.

Topics will include:
- What is "responsive web" again, and what does a responsive website look like?
- What is a media query, and how do I use one in a Drupal theme?
- Benefits of using Zen 5 as a base theme
- Benefits of Sass and Compass, and how to get started

Drupalers:

This month we have Jen Lampton of Jeneration Web Development speaking on her Total Control Admin Dashboard. This is gonna be good. Don't miss it. Here's the skinny:

There are a lot of administrative interfaces in Drupal. Site architects have a hard time finding their way around, but imagine how it must feel for a lowly administrator who only wants to change some of their categories, or review submitted comments.

Have you heard your clients ask you questions like these:

"Where do I go to do that?"

"Is that section under structure or content?"

Thanks to our friends at ChapterThree, we've snared "Drupal-famous" speaker John Albin this month. This promises to be a great session including responsive strategies in Drupal 7 and a look at where things are heading in Drupal 8.

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design”
affects us. The relatively straightforward techniques described in
Ethan Marcotte’s book and A List Apart article won’t be covered in
this session. Instead, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed
on ourselves with our current building techniques and how to break

Berkeley Drupal Users Group: 2/27/2012 12-1:30pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: Barrows Hall 60 (basement room)
MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map

JD Leonard will introduce Drupal 7's Entity API (http://drupal.org/project/entity, http://drupal.org/node/878784) and explain how it was leveraged in the development of http://textbookmadness.com/ which is launching at UC Berkeley.

This meeting was rescheduled from last month, when it got rained out as the result of a flooded room.

The Builders Lounge is a place where Drupal users of all levels can come to work, collaborate, share our problems and successes, and get support. Everyone is welcome. Please come willing to help and be helped.

Next builder's lounge: December 6th at 3:30 pm.

Schedule: First Tuesday of every month from 3:30 pm to 5

Location: 4 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus

Amenities: Conference tables, Wi-Fi, whiteboards, projector and screen.

Great topic this month! Rochelle Terman of The Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will present on the "Bibilo" (Bibliography) module (http://drupal.org/project/biblio). This is a timely topic at UC Berkeley as IST/RCT prepares to release an Open Scholar pilot project.

1. Installing Biblio
2. How Biblio works with content types / fields / teasers / views
3. Customizing Biblio - citation styles, fields, keywords
4. Importing and Exporting with bibteq and google scholar
5. Making a shared bibliography for exam studying.

The Builders Lounge is a place where Drupal users of all levels can come to work, collaborate, share our problems and successes, and get support. Everyone is welcome. Please come willing to help and be helped.

Next builder's lounge: November 1st at 3:30 pm.

Schedule: First Tuesday of every month from 3:30 pm to 5

Location: 4 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus

Amenities: Conference tables, Wi-Fi, whiteboards, projector and screen.

One of the most powerful enhancements you can make to a Drupal site is to replace Drupal's out-of-the-box search functionality with Apache Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/). On first look this may seem like a daunting task because it requires access to a server running Solr. However the best of breed Drupal hosting options (like http://getpantheon.com and http://acquia.com) give your site access to a Solr server by default. At that point you only have to install the Drupal Solr module (http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr) and do some light configuration to unleash the power of Solr.

(Sorry for the late announcement!) The Builders Lounge is a place where Drupal users of all levels can come to work, collaborate, share our problems and successes, and get support. Everyone is welcome. Please come willing to help and be helped.

Next builder's lounge: August 2nd at 3:30 pm.

Schedule: First Tuesday of every month from 3:30 pm to 5

Location: 4 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus

Amenities: Conference tables, Wi-Fi, whiteboards, projector and screen.

The Builders Lounge is a place where Drupal users of all levels can come to work, collaborate, share our problems and successes, and get support. Everyone is welcome. Please come willing to help and be helped.

Next builder's lounge: July 5th at 3:30 pm.

Schedule: First Tuesday of every month from 3:30 pm to 5

Location: 4 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus

Amenities: Conference tables, Wi-Fi, whiteboards, projector and screen.