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DrupalEasy Podcast 107: E%$#&prise

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:27:21 +0000

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Mike Kadin (mkadin), creator and head-referee from ModuleOff.com, joins Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello to talk about his competitive Drupalizing web site, WYSIWYG in Drupal, the E#$@!prise, as well as some great picks of the week.

DrupalEasy Podcast 106: Demoception

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:26:30 +0000

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Kristof Van Tomme (kvantomme), Lee Rowlands (larowlan), and Nick Schuch (nick_schuch) join (the uncomfortably echo-y) Mike Anello and Ted Bowman (tedbow) to talk about the Tour module and Walkthough.it. The Tour module is a recent addition to Drupal 8 that allows for contextual help in the form of a series of popups that can walk users through the various elements on a Drupal administration page. We get sidetracked by Lee’s Comment as Field potential Drupal 8 addition, DrupalCon Portland, a Drupal.org hacking, and a very special edition of 5 Questions.

DrupalEasy Content Migration Training at DrupalCamp Austin

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:12:55 +0000

We're super-excited to announce that we've been invited to present a half-day workshop during DrupalCamp Austin. The Camp takes place the weekend of June 21-23, 2013 and we'll be presenting "Getting Stuff into Drupal - Basics of Content Migration" from 1:30pm until 5:30pm on Saturday the 22nd. The workshop will cost $75 and we'll be covering the basics of three of the most common ways of importing content into Drupal: the Feeds, Migrate, and the Drupal-to-Drupal data migration (based on Migrate) modules. Interested? Check out all the details and then register today.

A Sneaky (Previously Undocumented?) Views' Feature

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:40:26 +0000

I rencently spent a few quality hours with the Views interface trying to figure out how to add an Organic Groups Group ID contextual filter to a Views display and have the display's title overridden based on the value of the contextual filter. Actually, it's easy to do if you don't mind having the actual Group ID integer in the title. But, like most people, I actually wanted the Group name in the title of my display.

It took me more time that I'd care to admit, as well as some guidance from the most excellent maintainer of the Organic Groups module, Amitai Burstein, but eventually, I discovered a simple solution that didn't involve additional relationships, contextual filters, fields, or trickery. Well - maybe not the "trickery" part. The solution involved what I consider to be a previously undocumented feature (at least to me!) of the Views module.

DrupalEasy Podcast 105: Men in Tights

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:38:34 +0000

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Bob Kepford (kepford) from The Weekly Drop joins Andrew Riley, Ted Bowman, and Mike Anello to talk about how Bob mines nuggets of Drupal goodness from the weekly Drupal firehose. Other topics discussed include Panopoly, open-source project statistics, the impending Google Reader apocalypse, Open Atrium 2.x, and a bunch of other mostly Drupal-related topics.

Import and Map Over 5,000 Points of Interest in 45 Minutes

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:39:00 +0000

At Florida DrupalCamp 2013, I presented a session that demonstrated how to utilize the Feeds, Feeds Tamper, Address field, Geofield, and other modules to create a fully-functional website for searching for Farmers Markets anywhere in the United States. While the session's intent was to inspire people as to what Drupal can do in a very short amount of time, this blog post will focus on the details of the process.

Can government do for Drupal talent what Drupal has done for government web sites?

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:43:13 +0000

Everyone seems to need more and better Drupal talent. There are too many instances where projects are delayed, or even turned away or lost because we can't find the people with the proficiency to do the work. Even though high demand for Drupal is a relatively good problem, it is still one that begs for a solution. There's a plethora of training programs (including through DrupalEasy) out there for the self-motivated, tech savvy, Drupal-aware. The issue is, even with the mass of training available and promoted through the community, we still can't fill the gap, especially for the community's long term needs. This dilemma exists for the same reason that we face awareness challenges of the Drupal CMS overall; there is no sizable list of behemoth companies with huge marketing budgets or focused, funded, grand scale efforts to raise awareness outside of the community.

DrupalEasy Podcast 104: Evil Genius

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:58:28 +0000

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Lee Hunter (LeeHunter), the new Drupal documentation lead joins Mike Anello to talk about the future of Drupal documentation and his (evil?) genius plan to create tools so that people to want to write better documentation.

DrupalCamp Training Interest Survey

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:19:02 +0000

DrupalEasy is considering offering half- and/or full-day workshops at future Drupal Camps and we'd like your opinion on what types of workshops you'd be most interested in attending.

Please complete this short survey to help us determine what types of workshops you'd be most interested in attending.

Thank you!

Florida DrupalCamp 2013 Wrap Up

info@liberatr.net (Ryan Price) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:42:06 +0000

Florida DrupalCamp 2013 took place on April 20 and 21, 2013 at the Florida Technical College in Orlando, Florida. Attended by almost 300 people, the camp featured 42 sessions, a fantastic keynote by Ryan Szrama (rszrama), 30+ volunteers, great food by 4Rivers, and four lucky organizations who benefitted from the all-day Coding for a Cause event.