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The Night Before DrupalCon Twas the night before DrupalCon When all through the hotel, Not a developer was coding, not even Crell The Coffee Mugs were placed by the laptops with care, In hopes that our Dries, soon would be there The speakers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Drupal 8 RC danced in their heads and my boss in his t-shirt and I in mine too just sat down to the bar to throw back a brew When out in the hall there arose such a clatter I sprang from my stool to see what was the matter, out to the hall I stumbled and fell, tore up my new DrupalCon t-shirt and and exclaimed “oh hell” When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a bright yellow taxi driven by a man with a beard, with a spiky haired passenger wearing glasses and jeans I knew in a moment it must be Dries More rapid than Varnish his contributors they came. and he commented, and messaged and called them by name: Now JJeff! now Quicksketch now Webchick and Nicxvan On MerlinofChaos On Stella On KarenS and Eaton! To finish the beta blockers, YES, finish them all, Now Code away! Code away! Code away all! As I held my last brew and was turning around, into the hotel Dries came with a bound. He was dressed in the typical geek turn CEO garb, but wrinkled and untidy from his trip across the pond. One-strapping the pack of tech on his back he looked like a man that could use a night cap. His eyes how they twinkled! His smile how Merry! His glasses were awesome, kind of like Drew Carey. His code and ideas are legend you know, from a dorm room in Antwerp to a board room so quick, if you think it was luck, you just missed the trick. With 10 Years of DrupalCon and no signs of slowing, we’re expecting Drupal 8 to keep this show going. I see in his face, years of spearheading his vision, from Drupal 1 to 7, it’s been a community mission. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, and filled all the coffee cups, then turned with a twerk The ding of the elevator, up to his room he went. To rest his head before his keynote event but I heard him exclaim as he walked out of sight Happy DrupalCon to all and to all a good night.

Topics Doing it yourself vs accepting a third parties content model Determining content types Fields References/content relationships Defining authoring experience Tools Module of the Week Christmas Snow: https://www.drupal.org/project/christmas_snow This is a very small module that adds a Christmas Snoweffect to your site. Modules Entity References - https://www.drupal.org/project/entityreference Resources Build Spec Spreadsheet - https://t.co/pMk5IBATrl Gather Content - https://gathercontent.com/ Good Typographic on the Web by Jason - http://www.printmag.com/featured/good-typographic-design-for-the-web/ 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 Latest Drupal News Blogs Curators Google Alerts Podcasts Attending camps/cons/conferences Meetups Social Media Company Reading Lists or Newsletters Writing! Industry Trends Blogs Podcasts Attending camps/cons/conferences Publications Module of the Week ImageAPI Optimize https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize This is a toolkit for ImageAPI. It requires imageapi_gd or imageapi_imagemagick or any ImageAPI toolkit to work. ImageAPI Optimize allows you to use your preferred toolkit and optimize (losslessly) the image when it is saved. Practice for web performance suggests that images should be optimized for better loading time. With this module enabled, Google's Page Speed will always give you an A in image optimize. Resources Aquia Blog 0 https://www.acquia.com/blog Lullabot - https://www.lullabot.com/contact/mailinglist Drupalize.me - https://drupalize.me/ (newsletter signup at the bottom) Weekly Drop - http://www.theweeklydrop.com/ Drupal Planet - https://www.drupal.org/planet Lullabot - https://www.lullabot.com/ reddit.com/r/drupal Drupalize.me - https://drupalize.me/ Drupal Easy - http://drupaleasy.com/podcast Modules Unraveled - https://modulesunraveled.com/podcast Design4Drupal - http://boston2014.design4drupal.org/ NEWDcamp - http://www.newdcam.com ExploringDrupal8 - http://Exploringdrupal8.com DrupalPVD - http://www.DrupalPVD.org Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/communities/111161359890617128846 Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/ This Week in Tech (TWIT) (http://www.twit.tv) The Web Ahead http://5by5.tv/webahead The Dirt Show - http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/category/podcast/ The Big Web Show http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow Shoptalk Show http://shoptalkshow.com/ Responsive Web Design - http://www.responsivewebdesign.com An Event Apart http://aneventapart.com/ Artifact http://artifactconf.com/ Future of Web Design https://futureofwebdesign.com/ A List Apart http://alistapart.com/ A Book Apart series http://www.abookapart.com/ O’Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/ .Net Magazine http://www.creativebloq.com/net-magazine 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 Managed vs Non-Managed Website characteristics Backups Hosting Companies Drupal Specialized Hosting Module of the Week Role Export - https://www.drupal.org/project/role_export The Role Export module allows roles to have machine_names and generates a unique role id (rid) based off of the machine_name. Roles can be exported with Features and get the exact same rid if imported on other sites. Because of this unique rid there is no need to create plugins per contrib module that use the rid in their export code, such as Views, Ctools, Rules, etc. References to this role id will not break on other sites. Resources Hosting Companies Dreamhost A Small orange Linode Media temple Digital Ocean Ramnode Black Mesh Site Ground 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 Guest Marc Isaacson “Teach Yourself Drupal” Drupal Kickstarter Project Project goals Objective How does it work Ridiculously Open source Kickstarter campaign Module of the Week Computed Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/computed_field Computed Field is a very powerful field module that lets you add a custom "computed fields" to your content types. These computed fields are populated with values that you define via PHP code. You may draw on anything available to Drupal, including other fields, the current user, database tables, you name it. (Feeling the power yet? :) ) You can also choose whether to store your computed field values in the database with other content fields, or have them "calculated" on the fly during node views. (Although you should note that Views use requires database stored values.) This field is literally the Swiss Army knife of fields. So start cooking up your PHP based values! Resources Teach Yourself Drupal Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vegantriathlete/teach-yourself-drupal?ref=nav_search Teach Yourself Drupal http://www.teachyourselfdrupal.org ROOSTS - http://www.roosts.org/ Innovation Women https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/innovationnights/innovation-women-technical-and-entrepreneurial-spe 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 Guests Marc Isaacson -https://www.drupal.org/u/vegantriathlete @tydrupal marc@isaacsonwebdevelopment.com

Topics NewdCamp overall results Team Handling the money Selecting a Venue Sponsors Marketing Website Things we forgot 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 Guests Ellen Diamond - www.hwdesignco.com @ellendiamond Susan Krushinsky www.HomesBySusanK.com @HomesBySusanK

Topics Net neutrality What is MailChimp What is Mandrill Modules to use with them Implementation uses Module of the Week Mailredirect - https://www.drupal.org/project/mail_redirect The Mail Redirect module redirects ALL system generated email to a test mail domain or address. This is especially useful when doing site testing which uses a production database which is populated with real email addresses. Modules Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill Resources Mailchimp patch for contextual links - https://www.drupal.org/node/2356065 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 Episode #71 - Jeff Robbins What do we mean by Mobile Friendly Drupal? What makes a site friendly Modules to help 10-15-14 Module of the Week Front End Developer - https://www.drupal.org/project/dfed Front End Developer provides an easy to use toolkit for theme developers that assists in the building of themes. Features include: * Displays current viewport resolution * Displays common media query resolutions ( ie. Mobile, Tablet, Desktop ) * Highlights defined sidebar regions * Highlights links that do not have a destination set * Highlights images without alt tags set Modules Navbar Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/navbar Adaptive Images - https://www.drupal.org/project/adaptive_image Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider Context - https://www.drupal.org/project/context Context Breakpoint - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_breakpoint Context Mobile Detect - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_mobile_detect Fences - https://www.drupal.org/project/fences HTML5 Tools - https://www.drupal.org/project/html5_tools Semantic Views - https://www.drupal.org/project/semanticviews Block Class - https://www.drupal.org/project/block_class Resources Macaw - visual web design tool - http://macaw.co Brackets - new open-source code editor from Adobe - http://brackets.io InVisionApp - visual prototyping & collaboration tool - http://invisionapp.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

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.