Talking Drupal

Topics

• Guest Marc Isaacson
• “Teach Yourself Drupal” Drupal Kickstarter Project
• Project goals Objective
• How does it work
• Ridiculously Open source
• Kickstarter campaign

Module of the Week

• Computed Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/computed_field

Computed Field is a very powerful field module that lets you add a custom "computed fields" to your content types. These computed fields are populated with values that you define via PHP code. You may draw on anything available to Drupal, including other fields, the current user, database tables, you name it. (Feeling the power yet? :) ) You can also choose whether to store your computed field values in the database with other content fields, or have them "calculated" on the fly during node views. (Although you should note that Views use requires database stored values.) This field is literally the Swiss Army knife of fields. So start cooking up your PHP based values!

Resources

• Teach Yourself Drupal Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vegantriathlete/teach-yourself-drupal?ref=nav_search
• Teach Yourself Drupal http://www.teachyourselfdrupal.org
• ROOSTS - http://www.roosts.org/
• Innovation Women https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/innovationnights/innovation-women-technical-and-entrepreneurial-spe

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Guests

• Marc Isaacson -https://www.drupal.org/u/vegantriathlete @tydrupal

[email protected]

Topics

• NewdCamp overall results
• Team
• Handling the money
• Selecting a Venue
• Sponsors
• Marketing
• Website
• Things we forgot

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Guests

• Ellen Diamond - www.hwdesignco.com @ellendiamond
• Susan Krushinsky www.HomesBySusanK.com @HomesBySusanK

Topics

• Net neutrality
• What is MailChimp
• What is Mandrill
• Modules to use with them
• Implementation uses

Module of the Week

• Mailredirect - https://www.drupal.org/project/mail_redirect

The Mail Redirect module redirects ALL system generated email to a test mail domain or address. This is especially useful when doing site testing which uses a production database which is populated with real email addresses.

Modules

• Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp
• Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill

Resources

• Mailchimp patch for contextual links - https://www.drupal.org/node/2356065

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Episode #71 - Jeff Robbins
• What do we mean by Mobile Friendly Drupal?
• What makes a site friendly
• Modules to help
• 10-15-14

Module of the Week

• Front End Developer - https://www.drupal.org/project/dfed

Front End Developer provides an easy to use toolkit for theme developers that assists in the building of themes.

Features include:

* Displays current viewport resolution

* Displays common media query resolutions ( ie. Mobile, Tablet, Desktop )

* Highlights defined sidebar regions

* Highlights links that do not have a destination set

* Highlights images without alt tags set

Modules

• Navbar Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/navbar
• Adaptive Images - https://www.drupal.org/project/adaptive_image
• Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture
• Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider
• Context - https://www.drupal.org/project/context
• Context Breakpoint - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_breakpoint
• Context Mobile Detect - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_mobile_detect
• Fences - https://www.drupal.org/project/fences
• HTML5 Tools - https://www.drupal.org/project/html5_tools
• Semantic Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/semanticviews
• Block Class - https://www.drupal.org/project/block_class

Resources

• Macaw - visual web design tool - http://macaw.co
• Brackets - new open-source code editor from Adobe - http://brackets.io
• InVisionApp - visual prototyping & collaboration tool - http://invisionapp.com

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

On November 1, 2014 at Brown University in Providence, Jeff Robbins, gave the keynote speech at the first New England Drupal Camp.

The Drupal community knowns Jeff as a pioneer in web development and Drupal, but did you know the CEO of Lullabot was also the front man for a successful alternative rock band in the 90s? Jeff shared the lessons he learned in music and how they shaped his success building a world renowned Drupal agency

You can hear Jeff's speech, "What I learned from Rock and Roll" here.

Topics

• What is meant by collaboration?
• Is it different than teamwork?
• Collaborationist!
• Benefits of collaborating
• Internal and external
• Participation vs collaboration
• Steps to get collaboration kick started
• Personal and business impact
• Finding people to collaborate with

Module of the Week

• Metatag http://drupal.org/project/metatag

The Metatag module allows you to automatically provide structured metadata, aka "meta tags", about a website. In the context of search engine optimization, when people refer to meta tags they are usually referring to the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag that may help improve the rankings and display of a site in search engine results. In addition, the module provides support for meta tags (Open Graph Protocol from Facebook, Twitter Cards from Twitter) that allow control of how content appears when shared on social networks.

Resources

• Workshops - http://www.Webcoffee.co
• Design is a Job - http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job
• Linchpin - http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/1591844096
• Hillman Curtis - MTIV - http://www.amazon.com/MTIV-Process-Inspiration-Practice-Designer/dp/0735711658

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Scenario 1 - “I have a Drupal 6 website and I need to get to Drupal 7”
• Scenario 2 - “I cannot get support from my current Drupal developer”

Modules

Checklist https://www.drupal.org/project/checklist

Allow administrators on sites to create checklists that must be completed by users of the site. Each user can see their checklists on the "Checklists" tab of their account.

• Multiple checklists can be created and assigned to users to complete depending on their role (or other groups in 2.x). Additional checklist options:
• Specify to only make new users complete a checklist.
• Assign a role on completion of checklist.
• Limit navigation until checklist is complete (it will not allow the users to go anywhere except to items on the checklist).
• Force checklist items to be completed in order.

Multiple checklist item types that can be expanded via hooks/API. Implemented by default in both versions:

• User check - the user simply clicks/checks the item.
• Admin check - a user with the correct permission must check the item off of the checklist.
• Node create - user must create a certain node type.
• Node agree - user must visit a node and click I agree at the bottom.
• Page view - user must visit a given page within the site.

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Security Patch Released today
• Approaches to address the issue. Update or patch.
• Handling customers
• Open source - security
• Oomph Ally Services
• Managing the update process with a customer
• Charge for updates or included in monthly service fee
• Writing secure code: Importance of using the API

Modules

Conditional Fields https://www.drupal.org/project/conditional_fields

Define dependencies between fields based on their states and values.

Conditional Fields for Drupal 7 is an user interface to the new States API, plus the ability to modify fields appearance and behavior on certain conditions when viewing content

Resources

• Security Release - https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005
• Security FAQ - https://www.drupal.org/node/2357241
• Drupal Secutiry Page - https://security.drupal.org/about
• Oomph Ally Servcies - http://oomphinc.com/ally
• Drupal Security - https://twitter.com/drupalsecurity

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Meet Jerry from Drupal PVD
• How to approach Drupal from the outside
• Drupal baggage
• Having a Drupal State of Mind and how to get there

Module of the week

• Bundle Copy https://www.drupal.org/project/bundle_copy

Bundle copy is a replacement for the Content copy module which lives in the CCK project for Drupal 6.

Has export/import support for:

• Node types
• Taxonomy
• User
• Field API fields
• Field groups

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics

• Dave McKinley - CTO Ooomph
• Drupal 8 Beta Release
• What does it mean to be multidisciplinary agency
• WordPress and Drupal under the same roof
• When a client doesn’t have a preference, how do you choose WordPress vs Drupal

Resources

• Drupal 8 Beta Release - https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0.0-beta1
• Meet Our New CTO, Daid McKinleyI - http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-08/meet-our-new-cto-david-mckinley/

Hosts

• Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
• Dave McKinley - oomhinc.com, @DavidBMcKinley