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2bits: Presentation: Using CCK, Views and Panels for building Drupal web sites
Today, Khalid gave a presentation at the Drupal Users Group of Waterloo Region on Uisng CCK, Views and Panels to build Drupal web sites, with minimal programming.
Here are the slides from the presentation, in PDF format.
Dries Buytaert: Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 book
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 is an update to David Mercer's two year old book Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites.
Just like David's previous book, this book is geared towards people who are new to Drupal and that have little or no experience in website design, PHP, MySQL or HTML. If you want practical advice on how to get a Drupal site up and running, this book is for you. Unlike David's first Drupal book, this book also caters to the intermediate Drupal user as it talks about Drupal's content construction kit, actions, triggers and even jQuery. Reading this book won't make you a Drupal expert, but it will give you a solid base from which to build.
Do it With Drupal: Announcing Our Presenting Sponsor: Acquia
We are pleased to announce our presenting sponsor - Acquia!
Drupalista's will know that Acquia is the company that was co-founded by Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert. Aquia is a new company who is changing the face of Drupal by offering enterprise level products and services.
Dries Buytaert: Learning Drupal 6 module development book
Matt Butcher's Learning Drupal 6 module development book an great introduction to begin developing on Drupal. It is not for the die-hard developer, but it looks like a must have for new Drupal developers. Thanks for for putting this book together, Matt!
Bert Boerland: DrupalCon, planes, URL's, 10% and everything
This story start with a one dollar bill I found the last day during the DrupalCon Szeged 2008.
A dollar, I thought! This must be my lucky day! So I took it with me and decided it was my lucky Dollar. Little did I know.
We took the train from Szeged to Budapest at 10 a clock, 2 hours later we were at the airport and went for a small snack. We had plenty of time, yet - I am not going in details here - it was very frustrating to see the plane leave, to see the gate getting closed, with you at the wrong side of it. It became a very expensive snack, a bit more then a dollar.
Barry Jaspan: Drupal and Dries make the MIT Technology Review 35
Both Drupal and Dries Buytaert have received many honors recently. As an MIT alum (6-3 '92), however, I'm particularly pleased to see both of them in the TR35: Technology Review's annual list of leading young innovators. Since I'm already 38, this is probably the closest I'll ever come to making that particular list. :-)
The TR35 appears in the current issue of Technology Review magazine (my copy arrived today) as well as online. The easiest way to see the video is at Acquia's web site.
Also staring in the video is the Most Awesome Cat in the Universe and yours truly (who is used to getting second billing to the cat).
Anello Consulting: Two Simple Modules: Favicon and Incoming
One thing I do while developing Drupal sites is make frequest trips to the "Recent Log Entries" page (admin/reports/dblog) to see what kind of trouble any custom code (or rouge themes and modules) I've added is causing. It is a quick "sanity check" to make sure things are moving in the right direction.
A pet peeve of mine when using a custom theme has always been the "page not found" log entry for the "favicon.ico" file. When using a custom theme (or an overridden favicon.ico file), while Drupal outputs the correct path for the link tag that specifies the file, some browsers still look for the favicon.ico file on the root of the web site. Normally, I "fix" this issue by making a duplicate of the favicon.ico file and placing it on the root of the site.
Edison Wong: BarCamp Hong Kong 2008: What Can I contribute for it?
A good invitation from Groups.Drupal (Hong Kong), about BarCamp Hong Kong 2008. I will try to share my research founding with Drupal 7.x + Enterprise DB backend, e.g. Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL; some tricky skill for integrate 3rd layout design with Drupal; also hope to gather with Hong Kong Drupaler and discover for our possibility.
Are you living in Hong Kong? Are you using or interesting with Drupal? Do you hope to meet more friends and share your idea? Is time to show up, and I will be there waiting for you. Let's meet on tomorrow :D
Acquia: Szeged Usability Sprint - a HUGE success.
Szeged Usability Sprint - a HUGE success.
I wanted to genuinely thank everyone who participated in the usability sprint - particularly Roy for setting it up. The outcome was fantastic!
Together we targeted 4 problematic areas defined by the two usability tests and crafted high-level solutions for each. Item 3 got dismantled due to language barriers, but the others made significant progress. Item 2 resulted in a patch.
1. Night of the disappearing help page (http://groups.drupal.org/node/14387)
2. Where did my content go (http://groups.drupal.org/node/14423)
Acquia: Does SAP use Drupal? Yes!
Thanks to a comment on by a developer from Mikamai on my other blog, I stumbled across a link to WikiSAP. It’s a social network for members of the SAP community in Italy.
Dries Buytaert: State of Drupal presentation (August 2008)
Last week at DrupalCon Szeged I gave my traditional state of Drupal presentation. The video of the presentation is provided below, and you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 11MB) as well.
The presentation discusses the results of the recent survey that I conducted; the survey ran for 30+ days and collected more than 1300 responses so it should provide a good idea of the community's current thinking. I'll provide more color and details about the survey results in a number of follow-up posts.
OpenSourcery: OpenSourcery officially a Drupal Association member
OpenSourcery - believer in, contributor to, supporter of, and advocate for Drupal in more ways than we can recount here - is officially an Organizational Member of the Drupal Association. We're still having difficulty transferring "ownership" from the individual who opened the account (yours truly, Thomas King) to the organization, so I'll just post a little screen shot here for good measure. We applaud Drupal.org for being such an incredible resource for everyone from independent developers to interested site owners to professional development shops.
Dries Buytaert: Lullabot Understanding Drupal DVD
I finally had some time to take out my copy of Lullabot's Understanding Drupal DVD for a quick photo shoot. This DVD provides a broad overview of Drupal, and covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts of a Drupal site. It is great for people that are new to Drupal. For people that have Drupal experience, it might be too introductory, but those should certainly wait for the next DVD in their series.
Lullabot also promised to make a donation to the Drupal Association for every copy sold. Thanks 'bots!
Acquia: ZDNet Names Drupal as a Top Community Platform
Dion Hinchcliffe over at ZDNet has named Drupal as one of the top ten leading platforms for creating online communities, one small notch behind Joomla.
The first part of Dion's post explains the current state of online community building practices and technology. Dion does a lot of consulting with top companies seeking to build communities around their products and services, and his insights are on target.
Although I would have put Drupal in the #1 spot, I really like Dion's brief description of Drupal:
Earl Miles: Panels 2 for Drupal 6 alpha 1 released!
Thanks very much to the hard work of Sam Boyer, we have managed to release an alpha version of Panels 2 for Drupal 6! Yes, it's finally here!
There are a series of known issues which you can find in the release notes so I wouldn't say this is 'ready' but it's ready for people to start fiddling with, at least. We're to the point where developers can start generating patches to fix stuff, too.
Gábor Hojtsy: Drupal Conference Hungary is on: November 15th in Budapest
As it turns out István Palócz, a lead in the Hungarian Drupal community was just energized again by Drupalcon Szeged 2008, and would not let the Hungarian community to skip this year's Hungarian Drupal Conference (you might call it a Drupalcamp). He already announced the date to be November 15th, and the location to be the usual Central European University Conference Venue in Budapest, which was the host of our previous local Drupal conferences the past years.
The announcement (in Hungarian) not only calls for presenters to propose (by September 21st, only in Hungarian), but also calls for sponsors. Pulling off a one day conference so that it is free to attend for all is not as expensive as a Drupalcon, but still requires some cash. The sponsorship levels for this conference range from 4000 HUF (16 EUR) to 100000 HUF (415 EUR). If you think you have a business selling to Hungarians, or making connections in Hungary, you are welcome among the sponsors! This event pulled together more then a hundred attendees in the past two years. If you are interested, just leave me a message.
Palantir: August and Everything After
Whaddaya think: Is it a good idea to take a new job, move your family halfway across the country, and then immediately head to Hungary where you'll share a room with your new employer -- all in a space of two weeks? When I told my Dad about my plans to do just this, he chuckled and then mumbled something about "crazy" and "didn't get this from my genes."
August was a tornado of a month for me, culminating in my joining Palantir, moving to Chicago, and then attending DrupalCon Szeged (I was one of the track coordinators).
Lullabot: Documentation is kicking butt
So, other than DrupalCon Szeged just generally being incredibly awesome (I have to admit that this was my favorite DrupalCon to date), I am particularly excited about the Doc sprint we had on the last day. We had a lot of people show up and we got so much stuff accomplished that it is impossible for me to list it all. My best effort is in a list of the top things that came to mind when I did a Doc team mail list brain dump. I do hope that others at the sprint will share their own experiences and thoughts, either in the comments here or in posts of their own. The biggest bummer for me is that I couldn't really manage to extend to the sprint into the evening which would have made it more possible for folks in the Americas to attend.
Anello Consulting: Trying out Lightbox2 with Imagecache and Imagefield in Drupal 6
I have a new client that has hired me to build a small, Drupal-powered web site for his scholarship foundation. Since the site is very straight-forward and not slated to go live for a few weeks, I decided to see if I could build the site using Drupal 6. The big challenge is seeing if I can get all of the image functionality working (and stable) using the bevy of development- and alpha-versions of the necessary modules.
The idea is to be able to add an image field to the standard story and page content types and use ImageCache and Lightbox2 to display the images. As of this writing, the required modules are at various stages of development:
- CCK: 6.x-2.0-rc6
- Lightbox2: 6.x-1.8, but only the development version is working with CCK2 at this time.
- ImageCache: 6.x-1.0-alpha2
- ImageField: 6.x-3.0-alpha2
- ImageAPI: 6.x-1.0-alpha2
- FileField: 6.x-3.0-alpha4
