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Tips using Eclipse and Drupal, at Wednesday's Meet-Up at pingVision

2008-11-10T17:49:06-06:00

This Wednesday's Denver/Boulder Drupal Users' Group Meet-Up will have, among other things, a presentation by Al Steffen on working on Drupal using Eclipse, the open source integrated development environment that makes coding -- and specifically coding for Drupal -- so much easier.

Also, Matt Tucker will continue our ad hoc series on things to do with Views by giving a little overview of Draggable Views, which is a module that pretty much does what you'd expect: drag-and-drop ordering of nodes in Views.

But that's just part of the meet-up. As always, the agenda is open.

Have a question?

Launched a website?

Created a cool new Drupal module?

Share it with fellow Drupal aficionados!

Meet-and-greet-and-Za start at 6:30pm, right here in our main meeting room. (Map below.) Presentations start around 7. All are welcome, from experts to the merely curious!

Drupal User Group Meet-Up this Wednesday at pingVision

2008-10-06T20:36:33-05:00

The regularly scheduled Drupal Meet-Up is happening this Wednesday, October 8th, starting at 6:30pm right here at pingVision.

The agenda is open this month, so bring your questions, your showcase sites, your hot new tip, and your questions. Connect with others who are into Drupal!

The first half-hour will be meet-and-greet, with pizza and beverages.

Whether new to Drupal or an expert, you are welcome!

Drupal User Group Meet-Up at pingVision on Wednesday, September 10

2008-09-08T17:09:09-05:00

Wednesday evening we will be hosting our monthly D/BUG meet-up here at pingVision.

As usual, the agenda is open. We have tentatively planned a presentation on using Views for presenting search results, and if there's interest in that, we'll go ahead with that.

As usual, we'll also have time for website showcases, if anyone wants to show off their latest, greatest creation, and problem solving for anyone stuck with a challenge.

And, as usual, we'll have pizza and drinks available.

Meet and greet starts at 6:30. Presentations start around 7. People new to Drupal are most welcome, too, so don't be shy! We'd love to have you!

If you're coming, please RSVP here, on the Groups.Drupal.org posting or on the Meet-Up page.

DrupalCamp Colorado and LinkedIn

2008-07-31T17:32:22-05:00

DrupalCamp Colorado 2008 has come and gone. I personally felt that the diversity of participants and the energy of the group was remarkable.

I felt that the networking opportunities the event offered were significant and I want to try to expand on the 30 or so people I managed to talk to. I have created a LinkedIn group called DrupalCamp Colorado. To join, log into LinkedIn and do a search in Groups for "DrupalCamp Colorado".

Drupal Meet-Up at pingVision tomorrow (Wednesday)

2008-07-08T11:12:18-05:00

We're coming up on the second ~~Tuesday~~ Wednesday of the month again, which means that the Drupal Denver/Boulder User Group is meeting here tomorrow night.

6:30pm - Gathering, pizza, soft drinks
7:00pm - Discussion and presentations

As yet, the agenda is wide open. Possible topics include:

DrupalCamp Colorado, which is happening on July 26th and 27th in Denver;
A mini-tour of the pingVision website, newly redeveloped in Drupal 6;
[Your project or questions]

See you here! [Google map]

Drupal Meet-Up at pingVision on Wednesday

2008-06-10T12:15:33-05:00

Tomorrow is the second Wednesday of the month, and that means the Boulder edition of DBUG is happening at 6:30. As usual, we'll have pizza and (soft) drinks.

We encourage people to bring their questions and anything they want to show or present. We will be prepared otherwise to keep things simple:

A discussion of SimpleTest techniques, including automating common node tests that we've come up with, that we'd like to share for feedback.
An overview of SimpleList, the lightweight page- and blocks-view query builder we developed for Drupal 6, with some discussion as to how to use it, and how it differs from the community mainstay module Views.

Hope to see you here!

Boulder/Denver DrupalCamp and other Drupal discussion listserv

2008-05-16T13:12:08-05:00

In the run-up to the planned DrupalCamp in July, we've reactivated the listserv for discussion about all things Drupal in the greater Boulder/Denver area. If you're interested, please sign up at http://pingv.com/mailman/listinfo/drupal and join the conversation!

DrupalCamp Denver / Boulder / in-between in the works for July

2008-05-13T22:06:52-05:00

Expert in Drupal? Totally new to it? Wanting to really dig into Drupal for a day or two?

A DrupalCamp is being planned. One, maybe two days of code, design, chat, sharing, testing, patching, learning, maybe showing off a little, laughing.

Have a thought on what it should look like? When it should happen? What we might do? Edit the wiki!

See you there! (Where ever that might be.)

DBUG Meetup April 9 2008 Wrapup

2008-04-10T15:31:16-05:00

Last night's DBUG meetings was exceptionally enjoyable. John Fiala gave a planned presentation on upgrading modules from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 which was extremely informative. His presentation is attached to this post.

In addition we had an attendee suggest an overview of the Node Carousel module and how to implement carousels on a site. We performed some quick hacks to our Drupal 6 "elephant" site and John walked the audience through the usage of Node Carousel on D6.

I particularly enjoyed these presentations because one was technical while the other functional. It was a good attempt at addressing the attendees that were new to Drupal in addition to the regulars. Hopefully, everyone walked away with something useful.

Al Steffen was able to give a quick introduction to the hunchbaque theme and outline a few of the niftier tricks he has implemented there. Overall, this was an information packed gathering.

We would like to keep up this momentum and are working at increasing the quality of the content being provided ... but we need your help. We need your feedback so that we know how to adjust the meeting formats for your enjoyment and education.

Drupal User Group Meet-Up at pingVision

2008-02-12T21:38:28-06:00

Wednesday. February 13th. 6:30pm - 8:30pm (though the reality is that we usually run later than that). We'll be meeting in our new conference room, so this time we'll have a bit more elbow room. (No more sardine sessions with standing room only for late-comers.)

As usual, we'll go around the room to get a collective sense of what people want to talk about. Tentatively we're planning on doing a little overview on Panels 2, the exciting new module by Earl Miles that created such a buzz in Barcelona, and some code talk on upgrading modules from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 (which is ~~being~~ officially released ~~any day now~~ today!).

No doubt we'll also buzz a bit about DrupalCon Boston 2008 happening in just 3 weeks. (3 weeks!)

Hope to see you here!