Event

Time flies faster and faster. John tells me that that perception comes because I'm old (or getting). I hate when he is right on things like this. could some just stop the clock for one minute! Luckly, I realized early enough to organize something special.

Given that Monday is Memorial Day we have decided to move our May meeting to June 6th. We will hold our regular June meeting on the 27th.
See you then. And I promise to have the after drinks location secured before hand this time.

Registration is now open for DrupalCamp Twin Cities! To be held May 20 and 21 at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus, this Friday-Saturday camp will feature:

In celebration of our new location we will be having a Question and Answer night. We really hope to help as many newbies up the learning curve as possible. As an added bonus we be giving away a copy of Pro Drupal Development 7 and a copy of Using Drupal to the best two questions (we'll let the crowd decide). So bring your questions simple and complex! Can't wait, see you then.

DrupalCon was awesome! This year I took a much different approach. I was much more selective about the talks I went to and spent the remainder of the time in the exhibition hall talking to other firms about their internal process of creating Drupal sites/applications. Holy S*%t my favorite talk by far was "Advanced Drush". It exploded my brain. I walked out with a whole new perspective on how to manage code, DB, teams, servers, ..... http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/advanced-drush

Details here. Note the change in venue just for tonight! We'll be at Old Chicago for freewheeling Drupal fun.

Updated - Now meeting February 9th, 2011

Meeting Agenda:

1.) What is JavaScript?
Very brief introduction.
Definition of terms: DOM, JSON, Element, Node, Fragment

2.) What is jQuery?
What is it?
Usage exampes : selectors, animation, ajax

3.) JavaScript in Drupal : What Tools Does Drupal Give Me?
Inclusion Methods : themes, drupal_add_js()
Behaviors
Utilites
Translation
Themes

4.) Suggestions on JavaScript development in Drupal
Organization : Namespacing
Performance : When to Include

5.) Questions ?

6.) Resources

This month Stephan Bridges of Iowa State University Department of Economics will lead us on a tour of Views 3 and how she integrates that with Apache Solr.

As always we will take the first hour for Q&A so bring you questions.
See you all then.

Welcome to the Iowa Drupal Users Group (DrupalCorn)
We are an open group of Drupal users in Ames, Iowa willing to freely share knowledge about Drupal.

This month we will be exploring the topic of Drupal Distributions. Specifically we will take an indepth look at OpenPublish a Drupal Distribution for publishers struggling to keep up with rapidly expanding technology and user expectations. With features support everything from basic news coverage needs to Web 2.0 trends, social publishing and topic hubs.

As always we will take the first hour for Q&A so bring you questions.

Hope to see you all then.