Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, July 9, 2015

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Start: 
2015-07-09 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York
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Event type: 
User group meeting

Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!

Room 006 - on the ground floor of the Friend Center building
Correction - we will meet in 004.

Continued format - 3 sections, with 2-3 people for each section. We need you to participate! Please contact the organizers or comment below to claim one of these slots. All of these are open and appropriate for you regardless of your experience level with Drupal - beginner and intermediate topics are especially helpful to others.

All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge.

Be sure to come out for networking, presentations, and more! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30pm, with presentations starting at 7pm.

Meeting in the Princeton Friend Center, lower level.

AGENDA
1) 10 minutes/per person - Site showcase and feedback
Show off your work-in-progress or recently completed project in < 10 minutes, and get feedback and suggestions

- Steve Shaw - the Lightning Distro
- Chris McCafferty - unit tests (phpunit) versus integration tests (Drupal simpletest and behat)

2) 5 minutes/person - Get a question answered! Leverage the knowledge of the crowd.
If you have a Drupal configuration, theming, or development problem that you are banging your head on, or a new piece of functionality that would benefit from group brainstorming on how to implement claim one of these slots and bring a concise description or demo of the problem so we can help.

- [Slot 1]
- [Slot 2]

3) ~20 minutes/person - Present something new (or new to you)
If you have been trying out a module and want to demo it, want to teach others about a technique, outline best practices, or preview a talk for a upcoming camp or conference, this is for you. Make sure to describe your intended audience.

- Peter Wolanin (pwolanin) - configuring Drupal and the webserver to serve user uploaded files safely.

WHERE
Join us in the Friend Center building on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.

After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.

Visitor wifi details:

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf

cross-listed on meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/219706157/

Comments

Looking for agenda items

pwolanin's picture

Looking for agenda items still - do you have a new site to showcase, or a nifty module you started using and want to share?

Also - we have a personal

pwolanin's picture

Also - we have a personal phpstorm license to give away

And phpstorm 9 was just

davidhernandez's picture

And phpstorm 9 was just released.

Lightning

ElegantSolutions's picture

Has anyone looked at the Acquia Lightning distribution? If so, could they talk about it?

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

Slight change of plans. We

davidhernandez's picture

Slight change of plans. We will meet in 004. They are right next to each other though, so you shouldn't get lost.

Online slides: