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Drupalcon SF 2010: DrupalCon Mobile Site is Live
Tue, 09/14/2010 - 10:00
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.
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Advantage Labs: New Pay alpha release available
1 hour 32 sec agoYesterday afternoon we made a new Alpha release of Pay for Drupal available. What is Pay you might ask? At it's core Pay is a modular API for accepting, processing and tracking payments. If you want to be able to accept payments on your Drupal site for simple transactions with out "Add to cart" or complicated checkout procedures then Pay is for you! To learn more about Pay, take a look at our blog post last week and check out the project page.
As part of the Pay API we provide a set of base classes which can be extended to provide payment forms or payment methods and gateways. Out of the box we're currently shipping with support for Authorize.Net and PayFlowPro payment gateways. While at DrupalCon Copenhagen I began adding support for PayPal Website Payments Pro and Standard. While still under development some of this work is now available for testing in the latest alpha.
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Katherine Bailey: Quicktabs module: some updates and an attempt at a roadmap
2 hours 6 min agoQuicktabs, the Drupal module that allows you to create blocks of tabbed content such as views, blocks and nodes, and which I co-maintain with Csuthy Balint (Pasqualle on drupal.org), received a couple of significant changes recently. One of the changes, allowing Quicktabs blocks to be exported just like you export Views and other CTools exportables, had been submitted as a patch by Young Hahn of Development Seed a shamefully long time ago and I had procrastinated about certain aspects of it. But building client websites at Work [at] Play, the dev team has been making huge efforts to keep everything in code, and it became increasingly clear to me that Quicktabs' lack of exportability was a Bad Thing; my fellow developers were surely casting sidelong, disapproving glances at me as its author, wondering what on earth the problem was. Yay - Quicktabs are now exportable! So I have created the 6.x-3.x branch of the module in order to accommodate this change.
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Mogdesign: Free Drupal Infographics PDF + t-shirt
5 hours 42 min agoHave you ever wonder how many Drupal websites are there? What about Drupal modules and themes? Ever wanted to know how has Drupal evolved since it was created?
Find out all you ever wanted to know about Drupal, but were afraid to ask.
Take a look at this fast overview of basic facts about Drupal, print out a card and use it as a handy resource to promote the awesome features of this powerful CMS. You can even download a version for t-shirt and become the coolest geek on your next meetup or Drupalcamp.
Questions covered:
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Localize.drupal.org: "This is all nice, but how do I get stuff out?"
9 hours 1 min agoThis is the question I got at many events where I presented about localize.drupal.org. We've just rolled out support for suggestion exports for translators about a month ago to make quality control and management easier, but that does not help people much who are just looking to download what's available.
I've also announced about three months ago that translation downloads were becoming stable and continually generated in a nice pace. However, the usability of those downloads left a lot to be desired. When looking at project pages on the site, you were shown a bland list of links to major Drupal versions the project was compatible with which all led to a long list of filenames on an FTP browser frontend. Also, some files being months old looked shocking given I've told you the downloads are now stable and up to date.
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Hagen Graf: Fields in registration form
11 hours 31 min agoSince a few months I try to have a closer look at Drupal 7. After the release of Alpha 6 I decided to start a clients project based on Drupal 7. Two weeks ago we discovered a more or less strange problem.
In Drupal 7, as far as I knew, the profiles module will disappear or integrated in the new field api.
So I thought it would be a good idea to create the user fields as "fields" not as "profile fields". That worked perfect. It was possible to see the fields in the user edit dialog and in the user profile. It was also possible to access the fields via the views module.
But ... what is with the registration dialog? Read more
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I Can Localize: Translation Analytics - A Reporting Tool
13 hours 9 min agoThe next major addition to Translation Management will be the addition of a reporting tool.
This reporting tool will answer questions like these:
- How are translations progressing?
- Who's the French translator, responsible for the delays?
- Which urgent documents are still not translated?
- Are all marketing documents for product X translated?
- How much work did we send to translation service Y in June?
To answer these questions, and more, we're setting up a Translation Analytics tool, which would work very similarly to the famous Google tool for Website Analytics.
The idea is that you can define special taxonomy for documents, like urgency, budget code, project, etc. The Translation Analytics will identify these fields and create database entries for them.
You will be able to drill down through the translation statistics and create reports that give you the information you're looking for.
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Lullabot: Drupal Voices 160: Moshe Weitzman on Page Rendering in Drupal 7
13 hours 39 min agoMoshe Weitzman talks about the new Page rendering flow and hook_page_alter() functionality in Drupal 7, which allows a more control over what appears on each page load. This will enable one-off customizations to the page loads in a much easier way. He talks about how Drupal 7 themes can now implement alter hooks, and how the page render arrays use the same approach as forms and nodes. Weitzman suggest that if you're new to the concept of render arrays to check out either the Pro Drupal Development book or some of the other training resources such as a workshop or other training videos.
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DrupalCon Chicago 2011: Now Seeking Trainers for DrupalCon Chicago
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:32TagsDrupal Planet
It’s by sharing knowledge with others that the Drupal community continues to grow and flourish. In that spirit, DrupalCon Chicago will be offering pre-conference training courses and workshops to attendees interested in gaining additional hands-on knowledge on a variety of topics related to Web and Drupal development. We are looking for talented, professional trainers who can share their knowledge at pre-conference training courses and workshops.
These courses will take place on March 7, 2011, before the main conference begins and will be held in the classroom facilities of the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center, located steps from the conference venue. We are looking for sessions and workshops that touch on all aspects of Web development, from Drupal site-building, module development, user experience design, and beyond.
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EchoDitto Tech Blog: Tutorial: How to Group Fields in Views With a Div or Span Tag
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:08This is a howto for wrapping a div around a few of your view fields (and not others). This is useful, for instance, for being able to group all one's content so that it floats left but does not float around an image.
EDIT: This technique is a good intro to views templates, however, an easier way exists, mentioned below in the comments by Sr. or Sra. Anonymous. Thank you! Just use two "Global:Custom" fields, one before and one after, the fields you wish to enclose, and the fields between the two "Global:Custom" fields will be wrapped in a div. That said, this post is still useful for learning about views templating. Carry on.
First, create a template for your view.
Create a template file in your theme directory with the same name as the views and paste the code from the level of specificity that you desire. For more information, read this introduction to views template files.
Here is the code from the stock Row Style Output:
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EmmaJane: New Ebook: Code-Free Layout with Skinr, Fusion and Panels
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:14Earlier this year I delivered a series of talks and workshops on how to use "advanced" modules to create Drupal layouts without ever having to crack open a PHP file. The slides from my CMS Expo talk "Advanced Design for Drupal" were uploaded to SlideShare. Now, for the first time ever, the notes from this talk (which became a three-week workshop) are available for sale.
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Lullabot: Drupal Voices 159: John Albin Wilkins on Drupal 7 Theming
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:46John Albin Wilkins (aka JohnAlbin) talks about some of the new extensions to the theming system that are new in Drupal 7 including render elements, hook_page_alter(), show, hide, theme_get_suggestions(), and improvements to theme_links(). He also talks about the theme administration page overhaul, how it's now a lot easier to create "mega-menus" dropdown panels when hovering over the primary navigation, as well as another presentation that Palantir gave on previewing Drupal 7.
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John Albin Wilkins: A complete idiot’s guide to git-svn-migrate, 3 steps to batch convert Subversion to Git
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:48If you read my previous post about converting Subversion repositories to git, you’ll know that to do a proper Subversion-to-Git transformation on a batch of repositories is going to take some time (what with all that command line typing). I had 142 legacy project Subversion repositories lying around I wanted converted to Git and, since I’m lazy, I pulled on my bash boots and wrote me a script to do the work!
With the git-svn-migrate scripts I wrote, you can batch convert all of your Subversion repositories in just 3 steps. And I’ve GPLed them and put them on GitHub if you’d like to collaborate and improve them; see the git-svn-migrate project page.
git-svn-migrate: a reverse glue factory
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Matthew Saunders: Drupalcon CPH - Sharpen your Axe
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 01:02Richard Jones of iKos gave a presentation on simplifying and streamlining the development of Drupal sites. His team observed that they were creating the same basic sites over and over again. To this end, rather than starting from scratch each and every time, the team created basic sites to start from and rapidly built out the basic site for a client in several weeks. This allows the client to start entering data early in the process - which means come theming time, you are working against real client data. This is a plus when you are trying to achieve the results your client is seeking. In the iKos model, design comes last and is somewhat subject to the functionality that has been developed.
iKos set the the goal to reduce Drupal development time by 80% - to radically reduced the repeated effort that the company engaged project after project. They created a model of a site "startpoint" that begins each new client effort.
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Dale McGladdery: Creating and Updating Nodes Programmatically in Drupal 7
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 19:52The steps for programmatically creating a node are:
- Create a PHP object representing the node data
- Save the object using the node_save() function
While the mechanics are simple, there is an important responsibility involved. The Drupal work flow does data validation before calling the node_save() function; node_save() does no validation. By calling node_save() directly your code takes the responsibility for providing valid data.
Drupal 7 ChangesA quick note for those of you familiar with Drupal 6. You'll notice two changes in Drupal 7:
Body Field Is No Longer Special
In Drupal 6 the body field was special. Specifically, it had a different data structure than other fields and it always existed, even if it wasn't used. With Drupal 7 the body field is a standard field provided by core and is truly optional.
Language
Language specification is required for the node and some fields.
Basic Node CreationThe following code assumes an unchanged Drupal 7 Standard installation and will create a Drupal 7 article node.
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Appnovation Technologies: Nodequeue and Views Combination.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 16:31Tue, Aug 31, 2010 by Alla
Sometimes it is really hard to show only the needed nodes in the needed order using views only.
Here are some examples when you need to give a Content Manager (CM) some control over the nodes that will be displayed by the view:
- you need to promote on the front page some content Item (for ex., some new Game) and want the CM to be able to change it through the UI any time he pleased
- you need to show the newest Games in the block (sorted by some date), but you need to give the CM ability to override this list and show a couple of Games of their choice at the top of the list (following by rest of the newest Games sorted by a date)
- you need to show a list of Items of some Type, but to make sure that some of the Items (from some "black list") will never be included into this list.
The Nodequeue and Views modules will be a very useful combination here.
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Metal Toad: What's in a framework, experiences from Rails and Drupal
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 14:39I've now been working professionally in Drupal for a year and have learned a lot about it; I have some patches into contrib but I've not really done much with core other than some simpletests I was too shy to commit at Drupalcon and some comments trying to help people out on d.o. Prior to my stint as Drupal programmer I was a hardcore Ruby on Rails developer for about 4 years. Over the last two years in particular I've learned a lot about frameworks and I'd like to share an observation about which framework feels right to me for which situations and why.
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Metal Toad: Semantic Views is Awesome
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 14:03Like any Drupal themer, I've done my share of grumbling about the frequently ridiculous level of nested divs with dozens of classes. I'd heard some people mention a module called Semantic Views, but I never really understood what it was for until I found this video. If you don't understand what the big deal is either, take the four minutes to watch. It's a total "ah-ha!" moment. I'm happy to say that I just used Semantic Views for the first time on a client site, and it's just as awesome as everyone says. It saved me a ton of work and let me get exactly the markup I wanted, even while working around Chuck's nested views.
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Vladimir Zlatanov: Entities, Bundles, Fields and Field instances
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 13:04Drupal 7 introduces a number of new apis and with those comes new jargon. Untangling that could be daunting. I'll try to briefly sketch what is what and relate it to terminology outside of the Drupal world.
This post is a work in progress, I am regularly revising the text from feedback.
Note Revised paragraph order and wording, clarified wording of definitions, added references, corrected glitches
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Lullabot: Drupal Voices 158: Emma Jane Hogbin on PHP for Designers
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 09:48Emma Jane Hobgin (aka emmajane) gives an overview of her DrupalCon San Francisco presentation on PHP for Designers. She talks about the importance of pattern recognition and forensic coding, some helpful modules such as Devel Themer as well as some of the basics of Drupal theming with tpl.php files and preprocess functions within the template.php.
For more information, be sure to check out her PHP for Designers presentation.
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