On January 23rd and 24th, San Diego will have its own Drupal Camp. I have attended the Drupal Camp LA last August, and the turn out was good. I expect the turnout for Sandcamp to be sim­i­lar. The event is free and reg­is­tra­tion is now open.

SandCamp 2010 Signup

Drupal’s Aggregator mod­ule is respon­si­ble for pars­ing and updat­ing news con­tent col­lected from sites in var­i­ous XML-based for­mats. Such for­mats include RSS, Atom, and RDF feeds. Drupal is awe­some for cre­at­ing and man­ag­ing con­tent and even has sup­port for blog­ging, forums, and user pro­files. Although the later fea­tures are not as feature-rich as a third-party solu­tion and the Aggregator mod­ule is not an excep­tion to this. In fact, I find Aggregator to be prob­lem­atic to the point to where it is a dis­ap­point­ment. I have found a solu­tion that works well for me.

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I have cre­ated a Drupal 6 test site on my server. This test site is to be used to try out new mod­ules that I have dis­cov­ered and to pro­vide a demo site for anony­mous users to tin­ker in.

The test site can be accessed here or through my port­fo­lio.

More mod­ules and info to come.

Also look for­ward to a Drupal 7 test site.

I have recently com­mit­ted to a project where the client is in need for a site that allows the man­age­ment of its mem­bers. The needed func­tion­al­ity includes the abil­ity to send mass emails, cre­ate events, and main­tain con­tacts for the site’s mem­bers. This in con­junc­tion with stan­dard fea­tures such as main­tain­ing mes­sage boards, blogs, and mem­ber pro­files. After some research and plan­ning, I have decided that a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) sys­tem is a good fit to han­dle the bulk of this required functionality.

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I have been work­ing with Drupal full time now for five months. Within that five months, I have grown to learn which mod­ules are the most use­ful to me. The fol­low­ing is a list­ing of mod­ules that I use, ones that I see has being impor­tant to deploy on every instal­la­tion. I have also added a list­ing of mod­ules that I’m cur­rently dis­cov­er­ing. The fol­low­ing mod­ules have been tested and work for Drupal ver­sion 6.

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I have been excited about the upcom­ing release of Drupal 7 ever since I started dig­ging into the whole Drupal party. In fact, a few weeks after being intro­duce to Drupal, I attended the Drupal Camp LA where vet­eran Drupalers were eager to learn more about this upcom­ing release. The exact date is unknown as for now. It is pre­dicted that an expected date will likely occur within the first half of 2010. But no one knows for sure. Those who have been work­ing on enhanc­ing Drupal say it is still has a way to go. Since I want to con­tribute to the cause, I have decided to install it on my local machine and give it a try. Within this post, I will cover the User Interface (UI) changes that were added to Drupal 7 includ­ing the new “Seven” theme. Screenshots are provided.

To start off, for those peo­ple who who may be eager to give Drupal 7 a spin, it can be obtained from drupal.org. Version 7 is not even in alpha stage. Therefore, it is highly rec­om­mended that this release is not install on any pro­duc­tion sites. I installed Drupal on my Macbook using MAMP. For the major­ity of my test­ing, the release has been fine and a wel­com­ing expe­ri­ence. Let’s begin.

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In a pre­vi­ous post, I wrote about my thoughts on using Drupal, four months after start­ing with it. I briefly talked about how long it took for me to grasp all the lingo and the length of time required to build a Drupal site. All of this desire to learn Drupal all started when I was told that Drupal is a com­mod­ity in web devel­op­ment. So, I did my research and began div­ing into get­ting my hands dirty with it. With my pre­vi­ous post, I didn’t really focus on the attrib­utes or the rea­sons why I choose to use Drupal over one of the many alter­na­tives. This post focuses more on what I like best about Drupal. Let’s begin.
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I first started my adven­ture into Drupal four months ago (July 2009) when a friend of mine rec­om­mended that I take a look at this pow­er­ful and flex­i­ble Content Management System (CMS). This would be my sec­ond intro­duc­tion into Drupal. The first time I tin­kered with Drupal was when I installed the PostgreSQL stack on my Mac sev­eral months prior. At that time, I didn’t fully under­stand what Drupal was all about or what I could even do with it. But when my friend told me about Drupal (espe­cially the part about how hot it is in web devel­op­ment), I became more inter­ested in it. Anything that can boost my poten­tial for employ­ment is some­thing that I am more than will­ing to jump on. From that moment for­ward, I made the deci­sion to embrace Drupal and learn any­thing and every­thing I could about it.
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I needed to embed a view that dis­played images (and only images, no full node or teaser) inside of another node. I tried sev­eral con­tributed mod­ules but to no avail, until I came across a won­der­ful func­tion in the API.
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It seems that the mod­i­fied theme that I was using for my port­fo­lio site would break when using Firefox. The appear­ance of the theme appeared per­fectly on Chrome, Safari, and Opera but run­ning it under Firefox from my pro­duc­tion site would cause break­ing of cer­tain CSS styles. My local­host test envi­ron­ment with MAMP wasn’t affected; Firefox would dis­play the fonts cor­rectly on local­host.
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