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This two-day workshop will explore modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views modules.

The Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three will guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.

What you will learn:

• Creating custom content types
• Building RSS feeds
• Allowing viewers to filter results
• Building interactive tables
• Displaying content in a grid
• Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
• Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
• Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
• How other modules integrate with Views

Drupal in a Day is a full day of training on June 20 2011, offered by the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three for just $400.

This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework:

• Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
• Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
• See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
• Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.

At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.

This three-day workshop teaches you how to create a comprehensive Drupal module. We'll use and explain each of the top ten Drupal hooks, the menu system and the Form API. You’ll learn how to conform to Drupal coding standards. You’ll write secure code by using Drupal’s built-in functions to sanitize data for display.

You’ll learn from the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three the correct way to save and retrieve data, including how to add your own custom database tables. We’ll also practice using theme system from your module. Depending on interest, we’ll show you how to expose your custom data to Views, demonstrate how to create SimpleTests for your module, or teach you the proper way to upgrade your custom database schema.

What you will learn:

• Drupal coding best practices
• Understanding hooks
• Using the Form API
• Saving custom data
• Providing themable output from your module
• Techniques for keeping your site secure

Days

3 days: June 21-23, 2011. This training is from 10am-5pm and begins at 10am sharp.

Prerequisites

At least six months of prior PHP development. Familiarity with Drupal terms such as nodes, blocks, fields and views. Experience with Drupal configuration and contributed modules/themes is necessary for understanding the concepts of module development.

Update: This is a Drupal 6-specific training that was previously scheduled for May 9th. The new date is May 2, 2011.

Drupal in a Day is a full day of training offered by the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three for just $400.

This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework:

• Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
• Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
• See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
• Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.

At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.

The next Santa Barbara Drupal meetup is on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at 6:30pm. We are meeting at the offices of RightScale, located at 136 West Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Join us!

This event is free and no RSVP is required, but if you plan to attend please sign up by clicking the "Sign up" button on our event announcements there. Knowing how many people are interested in attending can help us better select good locations in the future. People who sign up will also have last minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.

Drupal in a Day - A One-Day Training offered by Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three.

10% of the profits from this training will be offered as a donation to the LA Drupal Association, so registering for this training benefits you and the whole LA Drupal community!

How to register

This training is being offered for just $100 (75% off the normal price!) and does not include lunch. You can register for this one-day workshop at https://www.larks.la/register

About Drupal in a Day

This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework. You will have access to the Drupal experts from Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three and:

• Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
• Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
• See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
• Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.

At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.

Prerequisites

An active interest in learning about Drupal, a basic understanding of the Internet and familiarity with how websites function, a conceptual understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS). A working knowledge of HTML and CSS is beneficial (but not required).

Each attendee will be given a Drupal site on our servers, so just bring your laptop, a power adapter and any other cables you usually use.

We're teaming up with Lullabot on Friday, January 21st and we're having a night of fun and collaboration during Webchick's Drupal 7 Tour in Los Angeles!

This event (unlike the Drupal 7 Tour itself, which is $395) is free to all Drupal community members.

Would you like to be a sponsor?

There is a $85 bartender fee if we are to have a cash bar. If you or your company would like to sponsor this event, please contact Christefano.

Thank you!

Join us for a DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Drupal meetup to talk about Drupal at the offices of at Oversee.net on March 15, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be several presentations as well as open discussions, job announcements and time for networking. Several of us may be going to Weiland's Brewery Underground for a Drupal After Dark afterward.

The meetup begins at 7:30pm but the doors open a little earlier at 7pm for Users Helping Users, which is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal.

Logistics

This event is free and no RSVP is required. To breeze through security and get free or discounted parking, however, you can sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below.

The first 15 people to sign up will get free parking and anyone who signs up after that can get discounted, validated parking at any of the restaurants in the building. Preference is given to those who carpool. All who sign up will also have instructions and last-minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.

Be sure to update your profile with your full name so that a name badge will be ready for you at the front desk. To do this, log in and click My Account → Edit → Personal and fill in the "Real name" field. This is optional, but it makes things much easier for the event organizers and our venue sponsor. In any case, please be prepared to show a valid photo ID at the front desk.

Drupal Design Camp LA is barely 60 days away and we're having a website sprint on Saturday, December 11th. It will be between 10am-4pm. We might go past 4pm if we're up for it, but please don't show up before 10am.

The plan for the day is to use the Conference Organizing Distribution to set up the site and then write content (venue information, hotel locations, etc.) and add any extra modules that make the cut. We'll also start talking about the volunteer task list for the camp.

Signups are disabled for this event. We're just going to show up, roll up our sleeves and have fun!

Location

We're meeting between 10am-4pm at 4402 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019, which is right on the corner of Pico Blvd. at Windsor Blvd. The nearest major intersection is Pico Blvd. and La Brea Blvd.

Here's a photo from Google Street View that shows the front door. Windsor Blvd. has free on-street parking and Pico Blvd. has metered parking. Out of respect for our neighbors, please do not park on Victoria Park Dr.

This location is on the edge of Wilshire in Los Angeles, but it's also called Mid City and is right next to Victoria Park. Sheesh. If you have trouble finding the place, here's a photo from Google Street View. You can also call LA Drupal's hotline at 855-LADRUPAL (855-523-7872).

Lunch

Lunch will be potluck-style, so please bring enough food and drinks for yourself + one. We have a grill, a fantastic kitchen and a huge dining room table. BYOB if you'd like. Please post a comment below to let others know what you're bringing.

We're pleased to announce Git with Drupal 7, a one-day LA Drupal event featuring both a git bootcamp followed by a Drupal 7 code sprint. Git with D7 is being sponsored by Exaltation of Larks, Ninjitsu Web, This by Them, WebEnabled and Acquia.

Attendance is limited to 30 people (but we only have about 15 chairs, so please bring one if you can). RSVPs are required so be sure to reserve your spot by clicking the Sign up button below. Anyone who wants to attend the code sprint but not the prerequisite git bootcamp must contact the organizers in advance.

Join us online for the Git bootcamp!

To make this event as accessible as possible, we're broadcasting the bootcamp via WebEx conference at https://acquiawebinars.webex.com. Please see the official announcement on Drupal.org for more details.

During both the bootcamp and code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-la IRC channel and and all are welcome to join us. We also recorded the git bootcamp and posted the video online on blip.tv and on iTunes.