Talking Drupal

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.amaz

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

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 Picoz

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  

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 Interactionht

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 - h

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&

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/drupa

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 @nicxv

  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

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   

Topics Difference between site and system Characteristics of a system Why a site-building/theme approach? Building as a system vs. good practice for re-use Things we do to be more system like Modules  Field Group Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/field_group WYSIWYG Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg Administration Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_views 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 Dries’s annoucement of Drupal 6 support  What challenges do we have today supporting D6 sites What will the challenges look like when D8 launches Migration path from 6 to 7 Moving forward Business opportunities Module of the week Views field view https://www.drupal.org/project/views_field_view This module allows you to embed a view as a field in a view. A new field handler is made available, so this can also be used in area (header/footer/empty) handlers as well as rows. This view handler can accept arguments from fields of the parent view using tokens and pass them into the child view for each row. Raw or rendered token values can be used, as well as static values. Resources Dries’s annoucement of Drupal 6 support - http://buytaert.net/drupal-6-support Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics  DrupalCon Austin sessions: Semantic Site Architecture - Jody Hamilton https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/semantic-site-architecture Battle for the Body Field: Drupal and the Future of WYSIWYG - Jeff Eaton https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/battle-body-field-drupal-and-future-wysiwyg Digital Commerce Ecosystem - Commerce Guys https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/digital-commerce-ecosystem Collaborative Spaces: Integrating Drupal With Google Drive, Dropbox, and More - Dave Sawyer & James Barnett https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/collaborative-spaces-integrating-drupal-google-drive-dropbox-and-more DrupalCon Austin stats Code Sprints  BOF’s (bird’s of a feather) Resoucrces: Site Architecture Plan Template: Plantir Build Spec 1.0 - https://t.co/pMk5IBATrl Drupal Easy podcast Episode 128: D8 theming http://bit.ly/1tGEYYb Hosts: Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi Nic Laflin

Topics Key Note Drupal  Parties Drop in Guests Todd Ross Nienkerk - Four Kitchens https://fourkitchens.com/team/todd-ross-nienkerk/ Kay VanValkenburgh - OwnSourcing - http://ownsourcing.com/ Resources http://buytaert.net/the-investment-case-for-employing-a-drupal-core-contributor https://www.youtube.com/user/DrupalAssociation/videos Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan