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The State of Drupal

dries — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:07:29 +0000

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The Social Stack for Fun & Profit

timanglade — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:50:16 +0000

“As profits increase the margin reaches a second break-even point here, after which enterprise falls into loss.” —Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

So you've read a good article or two about the OpenID revolution in Wired Magazine, 01Net says you should OpenSocial-ize your site, Michael Arrington dissed your company in front of potential investors because you didn't offer OAuth and your grandmother has express regret re her inability to use XRDS to syndicate her identity profiles on your web service.

So you know, by name at least, the usual suspects of the so-called “Social Stack”…

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Tim is a Project Director at af83, working on the social and low-fi Web. He was formerly a consultant for the Nasdaq Stock Market, a freelance Internet escape artist extraordinaire and a Google Summer of Code selectee. He graduated from the National Institute of Sciences in Lyon with a M.S. in Telecommunications and currently sits on the Cap Digital board for Ethics in Information Processing. He can be found on most IM services and social hideouts under the handle ‘timanglade’.

How to easily set up an intiutive WYSIWYG editor that supports inline image placement using CCK image fields

Jen Lampton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:59:54 +0000

Historically WYSIWYG editors have been a burden to set up. Fortunately, the WYSIWYGAPI module has taken most of the pain out of the set up process. Gone are the days of editing random JavaScript settings files!

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Jennifer Lea Lampton is currently a developer for Chapter Three LLC in San Francisco, CA. Jen has been actively building sites with Drupal for almost four years.

Views 2 for developers

Crell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:30 +0000

Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. Views is also perhaps the most extensible system in all of Drupal, able to be extended in ways that make it the swiss army knife of data querying, marshalling, and formatting. But how do you extend it cleanly to bend it to your will?

This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins and handlers. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. Production code samples will be included.

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After four years working with Drupal, Larry Garfield is the Senior Lead of Programming at Palantir.net. He also serves as the Director of Legal Affairs for the Drupal Association, and since 2008 has been the Drupal database system maintainer. He also maintains a number of modules, including several Views plugins. As Views plays a major role in nearly every site Palantir builds, Larry has become so versed in the Views API that it keeps him up at night with the fear that he's starting to think like merlinofchaos. His friends have advised that by helping other people think like merlin he will feel less weird about it.

Geo tools for Drupal

Allie Micka — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:26:49 +0000

The Drupal community has been working together to build tools that help collect, search and map geographically-relevant data for Drupal.

This new generation of Geo tools goes beyond placing pins on a map: you can collect complex and relevant data for legislative lookups, distance searches, and making your information more relevant to users. Through the use of open standards and a flexible framework, these new solutions can work together with other modules to provide mapping, exports and feeds to GIS servers and mashups.

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Allie Micka, and her company Advantage Labs, have been longtime Drupal developers and community advocates. Their primary focus is to provide a sustainable platform for managed drupal hosting, training and community participation, and to continue to support the development of Drupal modules for Mail, CRM, Geospatial and community engagement solutions.

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becw

jerdavis

Intro to the Field API for Module Developers

bjaspan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:34:23 +0000

Drupal 7 includes the new Field API which provides "CCK functionality" in core. The Field API supports attaching custom data fields to nodes, users, remote data objects, and any other type of entity. This session introduces the Field API for module developers and shows how it differs from Drupal 6's "hook_nodeapi" approach.

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Barry Jaspan has been a Drupal contributor and core developer for over three years. He developed the Schema API and is the team leader for Field API. He is a Principal Engineer at Acquia, Inc. and is an entrepreneurially-minded computer programmer with a strong focus on computer security and privacy. Prior to Acquia, Barry created interMute, the first commercial web annoyance blocker, and Spamnix, a spam-blocking product. Barry is a maniacal whitewater kayaker and rock climber and generally spends his time wherever rocks, water, and gravity meet.

Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationlized projects too!

douggreen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:52:11 +0000

It all sounds so easy. Your client says "Can you create a multilingual social networking multimedia website?" and you say "Sure, Drupal can do that!" Give me a couple weeks... or months maybe. Off to the projects page for i18n, og, and a bunch of other modules.

Ok, we knew this wasn't going to be exactly easy. But why is it this hard!?

This presentation will be more about implementing a large multilingual website, the best practices, and pitfalls of mixing modules, than about any one technology, but we will alsotalk about the state of i18n.

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Doug Green is a 3 year veteran of Drupal with many credits to his name, including coder, views fast search, and the 6.x search patch. Doug graduated from Cornell University Engineering and has over 20 years experience as a Software Developer. Doug is a partner with CivicActions, one of our DrupalCon sponsors.

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Damien Tournoud

z.stolar

Social + Media: What We Need Next

chrisheuer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:38:24 +0000

The Media Revolution launched with NCSA Mosaic has been underway for 16 years and I have been a front line advocate for the web and social computing throughout. I believe that "the great restructuring" underway requires us to think more holistically about how to think about how people and organizations are using Drupal. We need to bring a new perspective to Drupal development in order that it can serve the greatest good. I also believe the answer really is "42" so perhaps I am living in a bit of fantasy.

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Chris Heuer launched his first interactive agency, Guru Communications, out of South Beach, Florida in 1994. He has since helped numerous start-ups with go-to market strategies, product design, web site development, online marketing campaigns, e-commerce and what is now widely referred to as Social Media. Chris formed Social Media Club in March, 2006 to educate professionals on the greater significance of what it means to be social and how media production/consumption has changed. To this end, Social Media Club has local groups around the world promoting media literacy, encouraging the sharing of lessons learned, promoting industry standards and discussing questions of ethics. More recently, Chris launched a new kind of ad-hoc consultancy appropriately called AdHocnium. Together with a senior team of "Creative Catalysts" from around the world, AdhHocnium developes innovative growth strategies for global client that leverages emerging technology and social media.

The state of RDF in Drupal 7

scor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:10 +0000

Over the years, there has been multiple attempts to integrate RDF and Drupal with many contributed modules like Relationship, Semantic Search or FOAF. None of them has proven to be sustainable and popular until 2007, when the RDF API came out for Drupal 6, followed by many other RDF modules for Drupal 6.

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Stéphane is currently working towards a Master's degree in Semantic Web at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. He is particularly interested in bringing Semantic Web technologies into Drupal and is leading the effort to integrate RDF in the next version of Drupal core. He also maintains several RDF modules. In addition, he has been in charge of IT and web development of Eco Innovation since February 2006. He has also been a web developer for the French company Iciformation since 2003.

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Benjamin Melançon

Web Typography Fundamentals: From Em Dash to Hanging Punctuation

markboulton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:23 +0000

Typography is at the very heart of the web. Unfortunately, web typography generally sucks. This presentation will help anyone – developer or designer – not suck at typography. From Em-dashes to hanging punctuation, we'll cover simple fundamentals of good typography for the web.

What will be covered in this presentation:

Typographic Structure
Hierarchy and language
Whitespace and typographic colour
Typesetting on the web
Tables, lists and forms
@font-face and font embedding

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Mark Boulton is a designer from the UK and runs the design studio behind the recent redesign of Drupal.org and Drupal 7 UX (working alongside UX designer, Leisa Reichelt). His life outside of Drupal consists of working for other clients (yes, we do that!) such as ESPN, Warner Brothers and the BBC. He also writes the odd book, runs workshops and speaks at conferences.

Reinventing Journalism with Drupal

modulist — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:27:17 +0000

Many are calling 2009 the year that spelled the death of the newspaper as we know it. The very business model is under attack, as papers struggle with dying ad revenues.

This session discusses how to build a small city newspaper from scratch in Drupal. We'll walk through the process of planning, designing, building and launching a new publication that's largely community-based.

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Claudio Luis Vera is a principal and creative director for Studio:Module, a leading design firm with clients in the Ivy League and the Fortune 500. Since adopting Drupal as its preferred CMS, Studio:Module has designed and developed with Drupal for MIT, Harvard, V-Day, and a number of large businesses and nonprofits. Claudio is a recognized designer with several Best of Show awards and numerous Best of Category awards to his name. Starting in 1994, he has played a role in managing interactive firms with talented professionals in the creative, marketing, strategy, and technology disciplines. Claudio is also admin for the Miami Drupal group and a founder of the Design Outreach Group

Learn to use the CTools suite

merlinofchaos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:03:44 +0000

The Chaos Tools Suite, known as CTools, is kind of a extra core API library. It includes a number of tools to greatly ease certain functionality. In this lecture, merlinofchaos will describe how to do the following tasks:

Create a multi-step form using the form wizard tool
Create advanced ajax forms using the ajax tool
Create more advanced ajax forms using the modal tool
Make your objects exportable like Views
Use collapsible divs that look nicer than collapsible fieldsets
Use CSS caching and sanitization

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Earl Miles is well known within the community for his contributions to the Drupal projected, particularly Views, Panels and improvements to the theming system in Drupal 6.

What's new in Panels 3

merlinofchaos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:50:47 +0000

Panels 3 was an unexpected but necessary major overhaul of Panels 2. In fact, it should probably not really be called Panels, as it is just a tiny piece of it. Instead, Panels 3 is really a Page Manager and it gives you vast amounts of control over your site.

See how this works, how Panels is extended, and how this is really just the tip of a very large iceberg.

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Earl Miles is well known within the community for his contributions to the Drupal projected, particularly Views, Panels and improvements to the theming system in Drupal 6.

Faceted search means more sales - e-commerce with Ubercart and Apache Solr

mikejoconnor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:18:22 +0000

Ubercart is Drupal’s leading e-commerce solution. Combining its power and flexibility with the best of Drupal’s 1000s of modules and your e-commerce solution can achieve greatness.

Problem: Your site visitors don’t always know they’re about to become your customers. They might not know exactly what they are looking for.

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Mike is a Commerce Guy. He spends his days helping clients push the limits of e-commerce with Drupal.

Web services, mashups, and QueryPath

mbutcher — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:49:54 +0000

Write a web service interface in ten lines. Import legacy HTML from a couple dozen lines of code. Get the content outline from an ODT document in 130 characters of code. Mash up five web services in a single module. This is what QueryPath makes possible.

There are hundreds of XML-based APIs, ranging from simple RESTful tools (like Twitter's XML API) to complex SPARQL-based semantic web endpoints (like DBPedia). The new QueryPath library makes it easy to write code that takes advantage of such web services.

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Matt Butcher is a programmer and author. He has written five books, including "Learning Drupal 6 Module Development" and "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery". He is a professional Drupal developer at Palantir.net. He maintains numerous Drupal modules, including Quiz, QueryPath, and Amplify. He lives in Chicago in the USA.

Designing Grid Systems Does Not Begin And End With 960

markboulton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:28:08 +0000

Grid Systems should underpin any well-considered web layout. Applying a cookie-cutter approach to this – but using a CSS framework such as Blueprint or 960 (and the Drupal 960 theme) – means you're cutting out a vital process in the design of your site: the design of the grid system itself.

This presentation will detail my grid design process. Throughout the presentation, I'll cover:

The typographic grid: its history, usage and application on the web
Different types of grid: modular, columnar, hierarchical, rational, irrational,

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Ubercart development tip and tricks

mikejoconnor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:22:06 +0000

Ubercart is Drupal’s leading e-commerce solution. Combining its power and flexibility with the best of Drupal’s 1000s of modules and your e-commerce solution can achieve greatness.

This session will show some of the critical Ubercart APIs that will help you to develop and deploy your own Ubercart e-commerce solutions.

Key points will include adding items to the cart with uc_cart_add_item(), and writing your own conditions/actions with Ubercart’s CA hooks.

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Mike is a Commerce Guy. He spends his days helping clients push the limits of e-commerce with Drupal.