Talking Drupal

Topics

• Responsive Typography by Jason Pamental
• Getting a book deal
• The writing process
• Pricing
• Marketing
• What Jason learned from writing a book

Resources

• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034063.do

Module of the week

• Commerce Coupon https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_coupon

Full rules integration. The validation and the redemption can be controlled by Rules. Multiple coupon types can be added. Each type can has his own fields.

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

• General Options
• Free Theme
• Roll your own
• Hire a Themer
• General Strategy
• Public Theme vs Admin Theme
• Modules

Module of the week

• Menu HTML https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_html

This very simple module adds a checkbox to the menu item edit form and allows the admin to add html to the menu item title. The idea is to use this for external links for which you want to display a logo of the visited site or simply to add strong on some words.

Guest

• Tim Dickens - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com@tregonian

Hosts

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

Topics

• What do we mean by Intranet
• Examples of Intranet implementations
• Why Drupal is a good solution (sounds like to usual reasons)
• Challenges with Intranet
• Distributions

Modules

• LDAP - https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap
• CAS - https://www.drupal.org/project/cas
• Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench
• Webforms - https://www.drupal.org/project/webform

Module of the week

• Block title link https://www.drupal.org/project/block_titlelink

Have you ever needed to make a block title a link? This module makes it easy. Block Title Link creates a link field on the Block Admin page. It works by overriding the $block->subject variable and changes it to a link.

Features Support: Block Title Link is compatible with the Features module by using the Strongarm module. Simply select any block_titlelink prefixed variables and they will be exported in your feature.

Resources

• Drupal Commons - https://www.drupal.org/project/commons/
• Open Atrium - https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium
• Google Interactionhttps://austin2014.drupal.org/session/collaborative-spaces-integrating-drupal-google-drive-dropbox-and-more

Hosts

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

Topics

• Design Tools
• Editors/IDE/Compilers (sass) Tools
• Source Management and Tools
• Project Management Tool
• Issue Tracking & Time tracking Tools
• Note Taking Tools
• Todo Tracking Tools
• Other Tools
• Communication Tools

Module of the week

• Views Flipped Table https://www.drupal.org/project/views_flipped_table

This module provides a views table style with rows and columns flipped. This is useful for views showing few entities with many fields, such as product comparison.

Resources

• Trying out Sketch - http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
• Typecast! - http://typecast.com
• Balsamiq (wireframing) - https://balsamiq.com/
• Omnigraffle: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
• Coda - http://panic.com/coda/
• Codekit - https://incident57.com/codekit/
• PHP Storm - http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
• Github - https://github.com/
• Bitbucket - bitbucket.com
• BeanStalk - http://beanstalkapp.com/
• Tower - http://www.git-tower.com/
• MAMP (Mac) - http://www.mamp.info/en/
• Drush - http://drush.org
• Freshbooks http://freshbooks.com/
• Harvest - https://www.getharvest.com/
• Tempo - http://www.tempoplugin.com/
• Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/
• Jira - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
• Evernote - http://www.evernote.com
• Etherpad - etherpad.mozilla.org
• Workflowy - https://workflowy.com/
• Nozbe - http://www.nozbe.com
• HipChat - https://www.hipchat.com
• Zoom.us - http://wwww.zoom.us

Guest

• Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl

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

• Dani Nordin (@danigrrl)
• UX Designer - what do you do
• Work on Drupal.org
• Tips for getting started with UX
• Resources for UX
• What it’s like being a designer doing Drupal contrib
• Thoughts on D8
• D4D

Module of the week

Fences - https://www.drupal.org/project/fences

Fences is a an easy-to-use tool to specify an HTML element for each field. This element choice will propagate everywhere the field is used, such as teasers, RSS feeds and Views. You don't have to keep re-configuring the same HTML element over and over again every time you display the field.

Resources

• Bentley User Experience Center - http://www.bentley.edu/centers/user-experience-center
• Design 4 Drupal - http://www.design4drupal.org
• Meta issue on user profiles: https://www.drupal.org/node/2281763
• TreeJack - http://www.optimalworkshop.com/treejack.htm
• Axure - http://www.axure.com/
• Communicating Design - http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Design-Developing-Documentation-Planning/dp/0321392353/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1409161283&sr=8-2&keywords=Communicating+Design
• Undercover User Experience Design (Voices That Matter) - http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Experience-Design-Voices-Matter/dp/0321719905
• An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues - https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-July-31#nav
• DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 - https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/node

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
• Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl

Topics

• General thoughts and experiences with multi-language websites
• Basics of translation
• Process of translation in Drupal
• Things to consider: Content (nodes), menu system, switching between languages, fixing strings (string override), layout
• Localization issues
• Common misconceptions
• Multilingual modules
• Other multilingual options

Module of the week

Simplify - https://www.drupal.org/project/simplify

Simplify allows particular fields to be hidden from the user interface. This helps to de-clutter forms and present a more user-friendly experience to content editors.

Modules

• https://www.drupal.org/project/i18n
• http://drupal.org/project/entity_translation
• http://drupal.org/project/variable
• http://drupal.org/project/webform_localization
• https://www.drupal.org/project/stringoverrides

Resources

Amazon investment in Aquia - http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/13/amazon-throws-money-into-drupal-hosting-company-acquia/

Modules that extend i18n: https://www.drupal.org/node/1305992

Lingotek - http://www.lingotek.com/drupal

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

• Why did we start a new camp?
• Goals of NEWDCamp
• Planning phases
• Planning team
• About the name
• Picking a Venue
• How to handle the money - Drupal Association - Fiscal Sponsorship
• Camp Website
• Marketing and sponsors

Module of the week

https://www.drupal.org/project/shield

PHP Authentication shield. It creates a simple shield for the site with Apache authentication. It hides the sites, if the user does not know a simple username/password. It handles Drupal as a "walled garden".

This module helps you to protect your (dev) site with HTTP authentication.

Resources

www.Newdcamp.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
• Ellen Diamond - www.hwdesigco.com @ellendiamond

Topics

• Eric’s presentation at Design4Drupal in Boston
• Designing in a browser
• TWIG
• REST
• Front end design strategies
• Drupal as a headless backup

Resources

• TWIG - http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
• YAML - http://www.yaml.org/
• ProntoType - http://docs.prontotype.it/
• Sculpin - http://sculpin.io

Module of the Week

https://www.drupal.org/project/little_helper

The Little Helper module provides a block that will display to the user random messages that an admin specifies. These messages can range from helpful tips to cute little sayings. The functionality of this module is similar to that of the MailChimp monkey.

Erik Baldwin

• http://CLoudNYNEDesign.com
• http://twitter.com/CLoudNYNE
• https://plus.google.com/+ErikBaldwinCND
• http://github.com/ThatGuyCND
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikbaldwin
• **me: **DRUPALPRO
• CND Phone: 615-DRUPAL-0

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

• Uses of Email

• Transaction/Service E-Mails - one email to the single person for a particular purpose. ie. Reset Password, Shipping Confirmation...

• Bulk Email - send to the group of people. ie. Newsletter, Forum subscriptions…

• User communication - personal contact or something like basecamp

• Impact the type of service and tools you will use

• Getting Started With HTML EMails

• Drupal out of the box will only send plain text emails

• Need an SMTP server setup on your web server or use this:

• SMTP Authentication Support Module

• Structure of HTML email

• HTML E-Mails From Drupal (Creating and Sending)

• Simple News (Module)

• Create E-mails content

• Mime Mail

• Enhances the abilities of Drupal to send HTML Emails

• Allows for email attachments

• Mandrill / Mail System

• (service by Mailchimp)

• Can replace the need for an SMTP server

• Has statistics for e-mails sent

• Can setup rules (within the Mandrill service) to change e-mail attributes before sending

• HTML E-mails From Outside of Drupal (List Signup Only)

• Mailchimp

• Allow Drupal visitors to signup for emails

• List Management for users

• E-commerce and webform integration

• Service is easy to use

• Allows RSS Auto Send

• Use site content to build newsletters

• Constant Contact

• Allow Drupal Visitors to signup for emails

• Limited List Management

• Some E-commerce and Webform integration

• Campaign Monitor

• Great reseller program

• Easy template generation

• Zurb Foundation

• Responsive templateshttp://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates

Table Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/tablefield

This module allows you to attach tabular data to a node in Drupal 6 or any entity in Drupal 7. The input form allows the user to specify the number of rows/columns and allows entry into each table cell using text fields. Tables can be defined globally or on a per-node/per-entity basis, so every node can have multiple tables of arbitrary size. Enter data by hand or by CSV upload. Table data can also be downloaded as CSV files by your users if you so choose. Tables are multi-value and revision capable.

Simple News - https://www.drupal.org/project/simplenews

Mime Mail - https://www.drupal.org/project/mimemail

SMTP Authentication Support Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/smtp

Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill

Mail Tester - http://www.mail-tester.com

Mail System - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem

Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp

Constant Contact - https://www.drupal.org/project/constant_contact

Campiagn Monitor - https://www.drupal.org/project/campaignmonitor

Responsive Email Design from Campaign Monitor - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailcm

Web Fonts in Email from Campaign Monitor - http://bit.ly/rt-emailcm

Responsive Email from MailChimp - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailmc

Typography in Email from MailChimp -http://bit.ly/rt-emailmc

Tutorial to Understand HTML Email (Hand crafted) - http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/build-an-html-email-template-from-scratch--webdesign-12770

• Responsive Typography Book by Jason
• Stephen trip to Disney and the Technology advances
  • We discuss how the Magic Band (wearable tech) is currently being used at Disney
  • Location servers being used at Dollywood
  • Location services being used Dana Farber
• Facebook experiment
  • Changing peoples moods based on content provided to the user. A small debate the ethics of what Facebook was doing.
• Being Involved in the Drupal Community
  • Does it help your business - hosts share how the community involvement has helped their business
• Aegir
  • What is Aegir
  • What has Nic done recently in Aegir - sandboxing a designer