Hello everyone, if your wireless drops or if you do not have a laptop just use your smart phone. The mobile site has a useful interface to view the schedule by day and by track.

I am hosting a BOF in room 206 at 4:15pm today, Monday to present how we created the mobile version of the DrupalCon website. The mobile version will automatically load for all webkit based smart phones.

Come and join our well established web development studio as the lead developer of our PHP based team.

We build interactive sites of no fixed type, so every project can be very different to keep you on your toes! You'll be involved with a number of projects at any one time ranging from
international brands, to charities and start-ups. We also run several internal projects which you'll have chance to provide input and development for - this is where we often experiment with new ideas first.

Ideally you'll have several years (3+) PHP experience, but also the knowledge of best practices when working as a team on projects. It will be your responsibility to take the lead on technical decisions for projects.

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As the momentum builds around Drupalcamp Atlanta 2010, I thought it would be an opportune time to highlight some exciting updates. Most notably, Jeff Walpole, CEO of Phase2 Technology, has been announced as the keynote speaker. Jeff leads one of the largest Drupal-centric consultancies in the world and his topic will be on "Execution: The Drupal Community's Next Big Challenge." Jeff's talk will be predicated around the importance of adopting a more professional and disciplined approach to implementing Drupal in order to meet the increasing demands of high profile, enterprise-level sites.

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According to Jo Wouters, Drupal was just featured on "De Canvascrack", a quiz on Belgian television. I know it is a quiz, but I don't think Drupal has ever been featured on television in such a mainstream way. Cool!

The question on the TV screen is in Dutch but reads: What was used to build The White House's site?. Picture taken by Jo Wouters.

My work with CivicActions recently provided the opportunity to create a minor, but much needed improvement to CiviCRM which has just been made available to everyone in the recent CiviCRM 3.2.3 release.

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Over the last year rayogram has worked with the New York State Senate to deploy a customized version of CiviCRM 3.2 for each Senate office. In the course of this work, we developed a custom theme for NYSS that leverages much of the template work that we did for the CiviCRM 3.2.

 

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Debugging is incredibly powerful, but setting it up for Drupal in Eclipse can be a pain. How about a step-by-step?

Coming from a .NET background, I love the Visual Studio debugger. I can stop code execution at any time and look at the values of any of the variables. There's none of this dumping huge arrays to the web page and examining the output. I've wanted to set up a debugger for Drupal with Eclipse for a long time now, and setup instructions vary wildly. Here's my take on it.

You will need:

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In my current Drupal development environment, I run an entire Debian server stack (LAMP + Memcache + Varnish, etc) inside of a VirtualBox virtual machine. On those frustration-laden occasions when I need to fire up the debugger, I use MacGDBp to connect to the virtual machine. Here's how I configure them. (If you just want to configure MacGDBp for debugging with MAMP or OS X's Apache, you may want to read an earlier article, and then check out the updates for Snow Leopard.

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Pantheon Demonstration Screencast and Early Customer Program

Thanks to all of you waiting patiently while we are heads-down building Pantheon.

We’re just back from Copenhagen, where we gave a sneak peek at what we’ve been up, and we wanted to share that demo with you as well. You can watch our screencast here:

Pantheon Copenhagen Demo Screencast from Pantheon on Vimeo.

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Finally, we've been able to collect all the movies and edit them together. Unfortunately the quality isn't great in the first few minutes, but it's getting better and I hope you'll enjoy watching it.

Thanks to our "camera guys" - David Mollière and Peter Stumpf (that as it turns out, is really working for the UN and uses OG for that!)

For those who want too see the technical stuff from the session I gave should follow this link. I hope this will encourage people o try out Organic groups for Drupal 7 and help in making it a great module.

This post assumes that you are familiar with the unix command line. If you are not then I recommend the video from Addison Berry session “The command line is your friend” from DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010.

I have something of a passion/obsession with removing annoying obstacles in my every day tasks. I want good tools that are adapted to the way I like to work. Here follow my best tips for making the command line a pleasant place to get work done.

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Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions have quickly become an integral and essential feature of the evolving Drupalcon format. The open BoF format provides a platform for participatory discussions and focused collaborative work sessions. For many topics not included in the official Drupalcon schedule, this format is much more appropriate.

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Git bisect is a powerful automated tool for searching deep into a project's history. Instead of searching for relevant commit messages (git log) or patches (git log -S), bisect actually allows you to run a functional test on each revision until the first bad commit is identified. (Okay, it doesn't test every revision, it performs a binary search, which results in at most log2(N) tests. This allows a relatively large history to be searched quickly.)

The test can be done interactively, with the human performing each check, or mechanically if you can supply a testing script. Randy Fay has done a nice screencast on the interactive method; this post will instead focus on mechanizing the process.

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Tigerfish is hiring again, and this time, we want you if you're a Drupal developer OR designer!

Here's a great chance to work with a passionate bunch of Drupal-istas in Cheltenham. We love making Drupal sites, but there aren't enough of us to get everything done, so we need someone like you!

We're taking on a designer and a developer, and both are potentially immediate starts. If you're an agency, thanks, but we don't want to hear from you. Otherwise, head over to look at the jobs and come join us!

After having seen DrupliBacon and DrupliCake (there are other great adaptations of the Druplicon as well!), I decided I wanted to get some creative juices flowing this weekend. I present, DrupliGolf!

Drupligolf is the result of a round of golf, an addiction to Drupal, and a love for the best OSS mascot in existence. (The latter reason will definitely strike a chord with anybody who's shared a drink with the Druplicon in #drupal... and actually drank).

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Happy Autumn everyone! Several days ago I got a question from one of drupal users about „How to output drupal taxonomy terms separated by vocabulary”. By default, Drupal outputs all terms despite of their vocabulary in one list, which isn’t great at all. On the output we want to get something like this:

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Continuing from Form API Changes for Drupal 7, Part 1: $form_state changes.

One of the many pleasant improvements to the Drupal Form API is that AJAX Forms are now really easy. Really easy. We used to call them AHAH forms, and the concept was the same, but they were so complicated that few people attempted them. In D7 we even changed the name to distance ourselves from "AHAH" :-)

In Drupal 6 you had to make a menu entry in hook_menu() that pointed to an AJAX callback handler that was complete black magic. (See a sanitized example.) People did this part differently, and it was hard to figure out the right way. (If you're doing D6 AHAH, the gory details and resources are here.)

In Drupal 7 there is none of that. But we still have to start with the basics so that you'll understand what's going on:

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OK, so there were some things in Your Theme to My Module that weren’t perfect. For example, “power ballade” isn’t really an accepted term in the English language. (Yet.) Q: What to do about it? A: Submit a patch!

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I have been using Drupal Lightbox2 module (http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2) for more than 2 years. BTW, it looks too buggy now a day when combine with other new modules, e.g. jquery_update, jquery_ui, img_assist, and so on. Its time for me to search for another replacement solution.

There is a complete comparison between different Lightbox-type modules in http://drupal.org/node/266126. Typically base on the usage statistics Thinkbox (http://drupal.org/project/thickbox) should be a good Lightbox2 replacement, but as its project page mentioned Colorbox (http://drupal.org/project/colorbox) would be a recommended upgrade path in Drupal 7.x. So I give a try with it.

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I've recently returned from an amazing time at Drupalcon Copenhagen, and wanted to highlight some of my favorite sessions, events, and departing thoughts (this also serves as preparation for the impossible task of summarizing such an epic and comprehensive conference in 15 minutes for this week's Portland Drupal group). While I can't cover them all, the complete list of videos from Drupalcon Copenhagen can be found here.

Jeremy Keith and the Design of HTML 5

Jeremy Keith, not only touched on the core functionality and concepts of HTML 5, but also spent a great deal of time focusing on the history and reasoning behind the design.

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