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Mar 19: Seattle Drupal March Meeting at Smashing Ideas

by German Villacreces

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In this post, I am going to guide you through the process of installing Drupal on a Linux box. I believe the best distribution for Drupal to be Ubuntu Server, the main reason for this is because we are going to use the Drupal Acquia Stack Installer, and its for Ubuntu, they recommend it. The Acquia Stack Installer is a package that includes Apache, MySQL and PHP all optimized for Drupal.

We are going to do everything from scratch so you need to have two things to start:

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Selecting a content management system that meets your organization’s website needs is crucial.  Moreover, identifying key functionalities and features that will support your web services needs is an important step in the selection process.  Deciding factors for choosing one CMS versus another is vastly different from one company to the next. Intrinsically, Web managers should factor in and seriously consider cost, scalability, database management, design flexibility, control and of course, ease of use. CMSes and Web design software like Ektron, Drupal, Dreamweaver, Joomla, or Microsoft SharePoint– all of which have received awards and accolades for their emerging technology and Web 2.0 functionalities. Most Web managers and administrators are probably familiar with the aforementioned platforms, but I have to say not all Web content management systems are created equal and that is where Contensive comes in.

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DevelopmentSeed posted a photo:

We only have one way to sell Milk right now, and it ain't scaling, but we have plans :)

Eric is talking on a SXSW panel about Open Atrium and open source business modules. Details at developmentseed.org/blog/2010/mar/12/sxsw-selling-your-mi....

bertboerland posted a photo:

I think I have spend about 300 mail right now and more then 100 hours for the Dutch DrupalJam. Love comes back to you...

or so I was told :-(

best thing: Bart Feenstra made at least as many hours as I did

One of the benefits of joining the Drupalse Group is that members get first notice of updates and changes to How to do Everything with Drupal. This is an ebook that contains all the Drupal.org Handbook pages and the API documentation. The book is in CHM format which gives features like search, indexing and bookmarking on windows platforms. This compartmentalized version of the documentation will make learning and using Drupal easier and more convenient. At present the file size is just under 50mb of compressed HTML pages and graphics. Some pages are long but this will be adjusted in later versions.

This is a work that takes a lot of effort to produce. An on going effort to make the ebook a complete self-contained archive with very few link to the web. There are also costs involved in hosting the download. To keep it free and available please think about donating or sponsoring the effort. You can read more about sponsorship and advertising at http://hiveminds.co.uk/2010/03/03/drupal-sweden-mission-statement/

Get download information by joining the linkedin.com Drupalse Group today!

changecase posted a photo:

This is how Drupal makes me feel.

Lee Stacey posted a photo:

Posted via email from Lee Stacey

Leggendo qualcosa sull’ accessibilità dei siti web, mi sono imbattuto in un commento di un utente che, avendo qualche problema con la vista, lamentava la difficoltà di comprendere i captcha dei siti web. I captcha sono quelle scritte deformate utilizzate dai webmaster per la registrazione al sito, nei moduli di contatto, nei commenti ecc… I captcha sono utilizzati per lo più per bloccare i messaggi di spam automatici, cioè messaggi indesiderati o messaggi pubblicitari inviati automaticamente da programmi di terze persone. Questi invii sono bloccati appunto dalle varie modalità di filtro del captcha, che questi programmi non riescono a superare. Il captcha è quindi comunemente definito come un modulo in grado di capire se

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In the next couple of days I will again be doing iterative releases of an offline version of the Drupal Handbook. A long time ago I was creating them for Drupal 4.xx and 5.xx. Suddenly there was fierce competition from those close to Drupal.org. So I thought that eventually offline versions would be the norm. Unfortunately two things happened. First Drupal.org started a project where they traded print HTML pages of the handbook for OPML. They never quite got to the point of automating the process of converting OPML to XML and then to a format that supports the easy creation of compressed HTML files. Printer-friendly pages are the basis for creating good windows help files. Later on down the road all the sites that suddenly were producing offline documentation faded into the ether. Drupal.org never adopted any server routines for creation of any type of offline docs either.

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bertboerland posted a photo:

A nice list at drupaljam.nl/sponsors

So, the longer it goes, the more I find out about the WWW.

It is truly a wondrous machine. Do you remember learning about the human’s quest for the perpetuum mobile? What? You haven’t? Look it up. It’s worth your time.

See? I just made you move without using any of my energy. The internet moves all day long. And most likely not out of its own volition. It is being moved by thousands, even millions of people all day long. It never sleeps, it never eats.

But humans create the content, so it doesn’t move by itself. Well, yes, if it were only one human who made all it move, it weren’t a perpetuum mobile. With half the world online, aren’t we more like one gigantic organism, like ants?

Instead of communicating by hormones, we communicate by bits and bytes. Even when I sleep, somebody looks at my facebook stuff, and, maybe, leaves a comment.

I fully stand by those commas above, by the way. Don’t ask me to give you the rules, but I know those commas go there. If you can credibly prove me wrong, you get a cookie.

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First post on Weslata (that’s the name of the site for now but surely it will be changed). I have chosen Drupal as the website’s content manager. Found it to be very easy and in tune with the website idea that we came up with.

I am now testing Drupal, MySQL, PHP and Apache on a local computer. I have run into some problems configuring the webserver and PHP but now they are resolved.

I am now going to setup MySQL and then install Drupal using WAMP Server. Looking forward to my first site with Drupal.

Just want to share some drupal css for forms, collapsible admin settings, and comment border. /* mak

DevelopmentSeed posted a photo:

In his TED talk on open + government data, Tim Berners-Lee showed afghanistanelectiondata.org/data - built on Managing News and Drupal - as an example of what is being done with data that's opened up.

Check it out (3:11): www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_....

OMG – I just had such a massive panic because I thought that I had lost the site appearance, all my css work. I thought it was somehow never goibg to work again.

I uploaded the updated acquia-prosper theme , which was fine. But the site went back to being grey colours and not all the colours I had chosen for it and spent DAYS adding into the css file. But it was ok coz I had a back up and I just uploaded the css file from before.

But then it didn’t work. Itwas still grey.

So I restarted the computer and swore at it and that didn’t work. Then I did it again and again and again and that didn’t work. And then I went into firebug for a look at it and I saw that my css file was being recognised but that it was being superseded by a new file called gray.css. So I went and had a look for this and in the updated theme there is a folder called design packs where there is a css file for gray and one for blue. And these are above the css file for the general theme.

I’m not going to use these as I have the look of my site all sorted so I just deleted the whole folder from my site. And now everything looks as it should do again – PHEW!

I will be hosting a Drupal iDEAL Codesprint on the Drupaljam in Amsterdam.
Please add a comment there, email me (ber -- webschuur - com) or contact me in whatever other way if you want to join, more information or anything else.

iDeal is a Dutch, online payment system, widly adopted, but hard to implement.

 

In Drupal there are many iDeal implementations for übercart, but none are very solid and none are easy to implement; some are even plain insecure.

 

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Setting Up Your Own Website Has Never Been Easier In the past few years, the ways websites are built has become infinitely easier for amateurs, or would-be professionals. No longer do you need to learn coding skills, which has put a lot of otherwise-creative people off in the past. “Content Management Systems” – such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress – allow you to set up your site in almost no time, through a simple online control panel. Just enter some basic information – such as your site name and description – choose one of thousands of themes, then add some text and images to your site. It really is that simple. Of course, getting your site built and online is just part of the puzzle. These systems are just tools, and you still need to understand how to use images online, as well as ways to get visitors to come to your site, and understanding how you can earn some money from your sites.

So, it’s still worth your while taking a short course to get started – or else, you could spend months of frustration. Not to mention the potential pitfalls you need to avoid, such as legal troubles, if you don’t understand what you are doing.

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<?php // render comments everywhere within your node if (function_exists('comment_render') && $node->comment) {   print comment_render($node);   print drupal_get_form('comment_form', array('nid' => $node->nid)); } ?>

I’m re-blogging Evan Boldt’s message to the SU team:

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SpreadUbuntu is participating in the new Ubuntu branding project. We want to start some discussion about the new layouts, design, and logo.

Please take a look at this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu/Brand

Some things to discuss:

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