Our mission is to connect Drupal users in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We get together monthly for presentations, site demonstrations, and hack nights. Our goal is to help new Drupal users get up to speed, foster the development of existing Drupal designers and Developers, and contribute to the larger Drupal community. The Research Triangle has a big concentration of technical folks, universities, and start-ups and we want to expose as many people as possible to Drupal and all that it offers.
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Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG
TriDUG Meetup July 13th - 6:30PM @ Red Hat (Raleigh)
Here is the agenda we created in our IRC prep meeting:
6:30pm Meet & greet + pizza (Bring your own drinks or something to share)
7:00pm Announcements, job postings, need a job, general TriDUG business
7:15pm Introduction to Views by Matt Kennedy from Four Clouds
8:00pm Introduction to Theming by Andrea Ross from UNC, FPG Child Development Inst.
8:45pm Wrap-up, Get help with your Drupal issues
9:00pm Beer at Bada Wings (Mission Valley)
Pizza provided. Paul is bringing a few drinks. Can someone else bring drinks too?
Read moreTriDUG IRC planning session on June 29th @ 3pm
How to find us: irc.freenode.net/6667 on #drupal-nc
The organizers are inviting all TriDUG members to join the #drupal-nc IRC channel to help us set the agenda for the July 13th meetup. We will start at 3pm and post the IRC log to the TriDUG mailing list after we have finished.
Please come with your ideas.
See this event on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/23846381/
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Article vs. Blog
Are there any rules/guidelines when to use the Blog module rather than having people just write articles?
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problems going from 6.20 to 6.22
What am I missing. It should be a simple update from 6.20 to 6.22. However, I have tried numerous times via ftp after following all the normal procedures. After I run update.php, and put everything back online, etc, I check available updates and it is still telling me I have 6.20 installed and there are updates available. I'm confused....... What am I not doing?
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Time Saving Tip for Renaming Themes
Below is the URL to the blog I mentioned at last night's TriDUG meetup. This saved me a lot of time in when I rename (duplicated) a theme because I did not have to manually redefine all the blocks and Skinr settings. Works great with Fusion subthemes.
Some notes:
Obviously, make sure to change "newtheme" and "oldtheme" parts of these statements to match your needs.
You will still have copy the theme directory to a new name, rename/edit the .info file and change theme name references in your template.php file.
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Great meetup last night! Met some new folks and had some interesting conversations. Thanks for your work on the logos, Tim and a good presentation on AHAH/AJAX, Allen. Even if you did scare me off trying to work with it in D6!
Just wanted to confirm that I am happy to do a presentation on theming (general how to build a theme, using base themes, etc.) at one of our upcoming meetups. I'm not sure I'll be able to participate in the IRC planning session, but if not, feel free to put me on the agenda for the July meetup if you need presenters.
Read moreHTML5 Offline Content Generator
I am looking for a way to generate the code needed to provide a way to view selected web pages on a portable device without a continuous internet connection.
After looking at a number of possibilities, the offline capabilities of html5 seem to be the best solution. This would require the creation of a manifest file for the pages. The specification for this file and its use are available here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html
Read moreTriDUG Logo Explorations 2 - Electric Boogaloo
Tonight at the TriDUG MeetUp, I presented new variations of ideas for a logo for our Drupal Meetup Group. Please see the attached presentation and leave your comments below. Since this is the next to final round, please limit your comments to verbal questions, concerns, and comments. This will allow for smoother development so that the next phase will truly be the last phase. :)
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Drupal Camp Asheville 2011
August 12-13th, 2011
Drupal Camp Asheville is a conference created by Drupal users and lovers living and working in and around Asheville, NC. We created this two day event in order to educate and empower beginners, help current users take their work to the next level, and unite all users together as part of the Drupal Development Community. Drupal Camp Asheville is created and led entirely by volunteers who hope that the day will be accessible to people of all skill levels and affordable for anyone who is interested.
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Looking for Freelance Drupal devs to take over support contract
Hi all,
I have a client in Pittsboro that I built a site for in D6.
I am looking for any freelancers who are accepting clients to take small support requests from this client.
Security updates, new feature requests, etc.
Since I have designed/built the site, I have moved to the West coast and i am working a full time job and do not have time to do support work.
let me know if anyone is interested in new client work.
thanks!
Andrea b.
On the lighter side...
After having spent the last few years working almost exclusively with Drupal I'd almost forgotten how ridiculous it can get when dealing with other developers' one-off PHP code.
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Divine-by-Zero.aspx
Say what you will about the community coding standards and code review in general, it's really nice not having to deal with this kind of nonsense on a daily basis.
Read moreCityCamp Raleigh announces $5000 prize and other attendee perks
As the planning co-chair for CityCamp Raleigh, I'm glad to share the news that we have enough sponsorships to offer a prize for the best technology solution at this weekend's event. Details on the prize, eligibility, etc, will be provided at the event.
If you want to attend, please register on the site: http://citycampral.org/register/
Note: registration for the CityCamp Raleigh GovUp on Friday, June 3, 5:30 – 8:00 pm at Flying Saucer, Downtown Raleigh is separate: http://citycampraleighgovup.eventbrite.com/
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Requisite - I am trying to create a news block that pulls content from the site and also points to urls outside the site. I am able to make either one work but not both.
The usual way - When you create a view and list only title and desc ; clicking the title takes you to the node (news page)
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Drupal Community Cultivation Grant
Not sure if this has been covered before, but noticed this mention of grants to be available to Drupal Meetups in this morning's email to Drupal Association members.
Read moreRaleigh welcomes CityCamp event to enhance local government and citizen collaboration
Hi everyone...Here is the press release from CityCamp Raleigh that I said I'd post in our IRC planning session yesturday. I hope that some of you find this interesting and can attend.
Regards,
Jason
Citizen-led “unconference” brings innovation and cooperation to the capital city June 3, 4, and 5, 2011.
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June 1: Adding phone, text messaging and other communication to software applications
Tropo will be in the area June 1 -- they're sponsoring CityCamp Raleigh -- and they've offered to talk about what they do and how they can further your mission, at the Raleigh Business & Technology Center, 6:30 PM. From their website:
Add Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM to Your Applications
Tropo is a powerful yet simple API that adds Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM support to the programming languages you already know.
You're welcome to join us. For more info and to RSVP, see http://www.meetup.com/NCTech4Good/events/19437211/
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Lullabot Drupalize.me video site
I was wondering if any of you had used the video subscription service that Lullabot offers now, called found at http://drupalize.me/.
I was thinking of signing up, but just wondering if it is worth it. I read their "Using Drupal" book a while back and found it very informative. I have never seen any of their DVD videos they produced, which I assume that is where most of the videon on the site comes from.
If you have any other videos on Drupal you would recommend, I would like to hear as well.
Read moreTriDUG IRC planning session on May 25th @ 2pm
How to find us: irc.freenode.net/6667 on #drupal-nc
The organizers are inviting all TriDUG members to join the #drupal-nc IRC channel to help us set the agenda for the June 15th meetup. We will start at 2pm and post the IRC log to the TriDUG mailing list after we have finished.
Please come with your ideas.
See this event on Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/18993181/
Read moreSVN Structure
Hi,
I am setting up a new Drupal site. As far as SVN goes I am looking at the best practices. how existing SVN structures have been modeled. I am thinking of just having the sites folder in the SVN but am open to suggestions. Also how did you create the branches - Split between two thoughts - One to have each release as a branch and the other create a separate branch for module / theme / scripts / files.
I am looking at various options and looking forward for some advice.
Thanks!
Read moreTriDUG Meetup June 15 - 6:30PM @ Durham/Duke Corporate Education
Full agenda TBD in IRC Planning session (Date TDB).
6:30 - 7:00 Meet and greet
7:00 - full meeting starts
9:00 - Adjourn to Mellow Mushroom
Meetup Information: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/18596601/
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