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.
Propose a meeting topic here.
Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG
Help, anyone.......
I'm at a loss. I've been trying to figure this out for days, I am not a professional at this by any means. I am trying to optimize and am entering keywords in the title tag, when I hit save I get this message:
Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/content/m/a/r/markcissi/html/includes/common.inc on line 1416
Thoughts? Much appreciated.
Read moreOne year under my belt
So, I think it was November of 2008 I first heard the word Drupal. I was not actively site designing at the time, had called it quits in 2002.
Well, my first Drupal site just went public. I'm not 100% done with it, but they wanted to release and I felt comfortable with where it was. Of course if I could do it over again I would do many things different and probably take half the time, but it was a tremendous learning experience.
1) Thanks to the community for at time holding my hand through this process
2) Check it out! feedback welcome. www.foc4u.org
Notes:
Read moreDrupal 6 and MySQL 5.1.33 or later
Is anyone successfully running Drupal 6 with MySQL 5.1.33 or higher? The article below mentioned problems with versions prior to MySQL 5.1.33 and before I start testing/deploying MySQL 5.1.42 I figured I would just check...
http://www.palantir.net/blog/beware-mysql-51-my-son
Thanks!
Read moreGetting TinyMCE to apply paragraph classes
Drupal 6/WYSIWYG 6.x-2.x-dev/TinyMCE 3.2.7
I'm sure I am using the wrong model.
Say I have the following:
p.big { font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; }
I'd like to be able to allow a user to select a paragraph and apply, say, the p.big class via the TinyMCE style drop down. Currently, however, it only applies this as a span tag, i.e., span class="big" which I do not want. What have I got backwards?
As always thanks in advance!
Read moreGreat Hack Nite
The attendees created and submitted a patch tonite. I admit I need to learn a bit more before attempting it myself, but it was interesting to see the process.
Julia did some robustness testing on computers. Mine passed with flying colors. I am sure she would be happy to test your computer at the next hack nite. ;-)
Read moretriDUG Hack Night - December
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30 pm
Location:
The Park Research Center
104 T.W. Alexander Drive
Building 18, Room #1809
RTP, NC
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More Info (PDF)
ckeditor integration and css
This seems like it should be trivial.
In my page.css I have redefined the p tag, thusly:
#main-content .node p {
font-size: 24px;
line-height: 28px;
color: #787878;
}Since this is the "normal" style for paragraphs site-wide. This works fine within my genesis subtheme.
Read morePixture/special menu item problems
I am having a hell of a time with this. I have changed to the Pixture Reloaded theme and have enabled superfish. All is good except that in my primary menus I have a few that are place holders that have sub-menus below them. With a previous theme I enabled Special Menu Items and all was fine. Now I have links on my primary menu items that should not be and when I enable Special Menu Items the whole theme breaks. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Read moreGetting help with Drupal
Sorry it took so long for me to post this up. Busy busy busy.
http://www.centurionwebdev.com/content/how-get-help-drupal
Read moreAnyone use Messaging and Notifications successfully?
So, I've given myself (and spared you) three days to try and get this to work. Didn't happen.
I created a Custom Subscription (Node Type: Announcement) and cannot get it to send email OR queue. I can subscribe to content types, like Page, Story, etc. I have a custom content type, Announcement, that I want people to be able to subscribe to. Any ideas of why this isn't working or what I can do to troubleshoot?
Like I said, I've spent three days reading threads, tinkering, checking this and unchecking that, nada. Oh, and this framework doesn't provide much in the way of log entries :\
Read moreHack Night Prep
For this Wednesday's Hack Night (18th), I'm going to demo my patch creation and review workflow, and there are some things you can bring or set up early to improve your experience. This should also apply to future hack nights as well.
At the start of the meeting (and later as needed), we can help people set up testing environments, but whatever you can do ahead of time will help.
Read moreNotifications / Newsletter / Non-users
I can't seem to think this thru all the way, so I'm looking for some input from the community.
Our church currently uses a raw email list to send emails (ranging from daily announcements, which i find very annoying, to monthly newsletter). How can I incorporate these emails, subscribe them to newsletters, announcements, etc, without them being active users? Many of them will never access the website.
The most dirty solution is to import the emails, create users, subscribe them en masse.
Read moreList of Files page in Drupal
I'm working on relaunching a website in Drupal and want to get some feedback on the best way to handle something. The existing site has a Newsletters page listing PDFs of all newsletters we've sent out over the years (http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/newsletters.html). What's the best way to handle this in Drupal? I'm thinking of using the File Node module and creating a content type for the newsletters, then using a View to pull them all into a page.
Does that make sense? Is there a better way to handle this?
Thanks!
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Getting the Taxonomy Term as an argument for a view
Using Drupal 6.14; Views 2 6.x-2.7
I have defined documents that are related by taxonomy. For example there's a location hierarchy (with a doctype def at the root):
region-1
--Bladen
--Clinton
--Dunn
region-2
--Orange
--Chatham
Project-Description
So, a region's page will have a region assignment; i.e., "orange"
Meanwhile, the project description, which will apply to several regions, will have the following taxonomy:
Project-Description, Orange, Clinton
Finally, the overview page for that region will have one term, the region assignment, i.e., "Orange"
Read moreSomething I learned today
While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.
Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!
Read moreOrganizing and Scheduling Content
I maintain a Drupal newspaper website and we're looking to improve the process for soliciting and publishing articles. The goals are to consolidate the process and make things more efficient for editors and authors to collaborate, as well as to provide some organizational tools to map out when articles will be published over the coming weeks or month.
Read moreDrive to drupal camp austin
I was curious if anyone from NC / SC / East coast was interested or heading out to Drupal Camp Austin? It's only $40 to attend 2 days next weekend, but the trip is about 19 hours for us.
Would anyone be interested in saving some money and car pooling down and back? I would love to go but don't have a reliable vehicle to make the trip. I live in Asheville, NC.
Read morePresentation Topics
Please propose presentation topics below.
Drupal Forums: How to implement non-standard functionality
Understanding and Using CTools
Drupal + Version Control: Setting up a development, stage, and live environment and a release process
Using the Features Module to Build Reusable Sites
Writing an external authentication module
Using Apache Solr
Creating a mobile version of your site
Setting up Aegir for a large Drupal installation
Using Drush to Update Modules and Other Cool Tricks
Drupal Debugging - How to use XDebug
Charlotte Resources?
Hello North Carolina!
I'm just getting into drupal development and I haven't found much in the way of local resources or meetups in my area (Charlotte NC).
Do I need to drive 2.5 hours to the triDUG users group in Cary to get myself started? They seem to be the most active group.
Would appreciate any leads you all might have. Also looking for training in NC or the South East, if you have suggestions. Thanks!
Discussion regarding changes to Hack Nights
I think there should be a specific topic for discussing the changes to the hack nights. I understand the desire to contribute back to the Drupal project, and I think it's definitely worthwhile. But, I think there are plenty of people like me who really appreciated knowing that there was a place we could go to and get face-to-face help with problems. That seems to be the traditional view of "hack nights".
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