Talking Drupal

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 - https://www.getharvest.com/ Tempo - http://www.tempoplugin.com/ Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/ Jira - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira Evernote - http://www.evernote.com Etherpad - etherpad.mozilla.org Workflowy - https://workflowy.com/ Nozbe - http://www.nozbe.com HipChat - https://www.hipchat.com Zoom.us - http://wwww.zoom.us Guest Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl 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 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&keywords=Communicating+Design Undercover User Experience Design (Voices That Matter) - http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Experience-Design-Voices-Matter/dp/0321719905 An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues - https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-July-31#nav DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 - https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/node 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 Dani Nordim - tzk-design.com @danigrrl  

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/drupal 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 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 @nicxvan    

  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 of Drupal (List Signup Only) Mailchimp Allow Drupal visitors to signup for emails List Management for users E-commerce and webform integration Service is easy to use Allows RSS Auto Send Use site content to build newsletters Constant Contact Allow Drupal Visitors to signup for emails Limited List Management Some E-commerce and Webform integration Campaign Monitor Great reseller program Easy template generation Zurb Foundation Responsive templateshttp://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates   Module of the week Table Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/tablefield This module allows you to attach tabular data to a node in Drupal 6 or any entity in Drupal 7. The input form allows the user to specify the number of rows/columns and allows entry into each table cell using text fields. Tables can be defined globally or on a per-node/per-entity basis, so every node can have multiple tables of arbitrary size. Enter data by hand or by CSV upload. Table data can also be downloaded as CSV files by your users if you so choose. Tables are multi-value and revision capable. Resources Simple News - https://www.drupal.org/project/simplenews Mime Mail - https://www.drupal.org/project/mimemail SMTP Authentication Support Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/smtp Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill Mail Tester - http://www.mail-tester.com Mail System - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp Constant Contact - https://www.drupal.org/project/constant_contact Campiagn Monitor - https://www.drupal.org/project/campaignmonitor Responsive Email Design from Campaign Monitor  - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailcm Web Fonts in Email from Campaign Monitor - http://bit.ly/rt-emailcm Responsive Email from MailChimp - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailmc Typography in Email from MailChimp -http://bit.ly/rt-emailmc Tutorial to Understand HTML Email (Hand crafted) - http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/build-an-html-email-template-from-scratch--webdesign-12770  

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 - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan