Wisconsin

Hi all -

This month, a daytime meetup: Next Friday (03/30), we'll be on the UW campus in room 274 of Van Hise Hall from 2:30 until 4 (or as late as you want to stay).

On campus, recent conversation has focused on Drupal and the development workflow. Let's carry that conversation forward and talk about the content lifecycle from Content Staging to Production (and quite possibly back again).

Headless Drupal has been a hot topic lately, and if you're an advanced-level developer, you already know exactly what this is, and why it's useful.

On the other hand, if you're not part of this club, you're probably asking yourself WHAT IS THIS NEW THING AND WHY DO I WANT TO USE IT?

In this session (by Raphael), we'll start from a basic level, and find out exactly what a RESTful web service is, and why they've become so popular. Then, we’ll explore current solutions in the Drupal ecosystem, before focusing on the main topic, the RESTful module in Drupal 7. We’ll discover how, with only two files, we can create a powerful REST API that we can put to use immediately on any Drupal 7 site.

After a quick break for questions, we'll dive into the second half, where we’ll find out how to consume out new REST API using a variety of client-side technologies, from the lowly cURL to the mighty Backbone.js.

Virtual participation over Google Hangouts

If you want to participate in the meetup but can't make it down physically, no worries - you can participate over Google Hangouts!

We'll be starting the feed at 6:30pm - you can either use Google Hangouts to participate fully, ie. you can ask questions with your voice and interact (Google Hangouts link will be posted in comments on the Meetup.com page at 6pm), or watch passively on YouTube.

Global Sprint weekend is this coming weekend!

Drupal developers, users, and fanatics will be gathering in small groups all around the world to contribute back to the Drupal project. This year, Gorton Studios has graciously offered to provide space.

Gorton Studios
4640 Nicols Road, Suite 205
Eagan, MN 55122

Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015
10:00am - 4:00pm

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Unlike most of our monthly meetups, there isn't going to be a presentation this month. Instead, we're going to do an interactive session where we:

• Discuss the topics and plans for future Drupal414 meetups in 2015
• Solve specific Drupal problems that other members are having

So, think of some problems you're having on live or testing Drupal sites and bring them to the meetup for us to solve!

The best food at a Meetup!

Modern web applications are built using new cool JavaScript technologies on the front-end. But how can you use them with Drupal? And why?

In this presentation, Daniel Stout (from Madison, WI) will talk about the hows and whys of "headless Drupal." A recent trend in the Drupal community, headless Drupal is a way to use Drupal as the "data engine" while bypassing much of the theme layer to serve up your site via a JavaScript web application.

In this session, we'll cover:

On October 1st, Drupal 8.0.0-beta1 was released! This means it's now go time to start trying it out, porting modules or even building sites (if your project launch date is sufficiently in the future or you like to live dangerously).

We'll talk a little bit about some of the new things in Drupal 8, but mostly we're going to be digging in and trying it out!

Bring your computer and we'll get Drupal 8 installed so you can check out the new -beta1, and we'll explore together, seeing what we can find and how much trouble we can get ourselves into. :-)

(If you don't want to bring your computer down, that's fine too, you can pair with someone else or what the person connected to the projector.)

Since this is going to be an interactive jam session, we're not going to do virtual participation this time. Sorry! Next time we have a more traditional presentation we'll do it again.