John Albin Wilkins (aka JohnAlbin) talks about some of the new extensions to the theming system that are new in Drupal 7 including render elements, hook_page_alter(), show, hide, theme_get_suggestions(), and improvements to theme_links().
Emma Jane Hobgin (aka emmajane) gives an overview of her DrupalCon San Francisco presentation on PHP for Designers. She talks about the importance of pattern recognition and forensic coding, some helpful modules such as Devel Themer as well as some of the basics of Drupal theming with tpl.php files and preprocess functions within the template.php.For more information, be sure to check out her PHP for Designers presentation.
Replace text, copy/paste, and visual mode This video picks up where we left off in the Editing with Vi/Vim video. This time we take a look at some shortcuts for replacing text, how to copy/paste, and the cool visual mode feature you get with Vim.
Save 25% On All Lullabot Learning Series Videos! Use coupon code: SCHOOL25The school year is starting up, DrupalCon CPH is over and it's time to learn Drupal!
Sean Robertson (aka seanr) of NGP Software talks about some of the political sites that he's worked on such as Barney Frank, John Conyers, and Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. He talks about some of the automation processes that he's been working on with the context and features modules with the NGP Campaign Features set of functionality.
Ken Rickard (aka agentrickard) talks about some of the improvements to the node access system in Drupal 7. He mentions that all six of the action items that came out of a brainstorming session from at Node Access Birds of a Feather session from DrupalCon Szeged. Rickard talks about two new alter hooks in Drupal 7 related to node access including hook_node_access_records_alter() and hook_node_grants_alter().
Konstantin Käfer (aka kkafer) talks about the Form API States System for Drupal 7. The states system allows you to create dependencies between form elements so that you can for example make a textbox disappear when a checkbox is checked. The Examples for Developers module has some more examples of the #states syntax on api.drupal.org. For more detailed information on how to use the states system, we cover it in Chapter 12 of the jQuery & JavaScript in Drupal Lullabot Learing Series video.
Alex Bronstein (aka effulgentsia) talks about how he got working with Drupal 7 and the Form API through his work on the flexifield module. He's also listed as the co-maintainer of the AJAX, Form, Render, and Theme systems for Drupal 7. Bronstein also talks about some of the work that he has done with Libraries through Your Library Site and mentions the Social Online Public Access Catalog (SOPAC) module.
Announcing Lullabot's short URL site: lb.cm URL shorteners are the bane of the internet. However, for those of us who use Twitter on a regular basis, you know that 140 characters can be limiting. URLs can theoretically be 2,000 characters or more, but most are in the 40 to 80 character range. That's almost half your tweet!
Katherine Bailey (aka katbailey) gives a brief overview of the new Ajax framework in Drupal 7. As maintainer of the Quick Tabs module, she got interested in all of the various JavaScript-related functionality in Drupal. For more detailed information on the new Ajax framework, then consider checking out the jQuery and JavaScript in Drupal training video which covers both how to use the Ajax framework in Drupal 7, as well as creating Ajax-enabled links.
In his presentation "Beyond Web 2.0", Lullabot co-founder and CEO, Jeff Robbins will be talking about the future (and possible death of) the web at DrupalCamp CT on Saturday. He looks at trends in technology and the Internet and talks about what we, as web developers, need to understand in order to prepare our websites today.
Looking for workshop leaders in Europe and North America First off, thanks to those of you who have already applied for the Lullabot Drupal trainer job as well as our other current job listings. We're planning to hire and train about 4 new Drupal trainers in the next few months. We're also hoping that a few of these trainers will be from Europe.
Chris Fassnacht (aka sociotech) talks about the evolution of Top Notch Themes and Fusion Drupal Themes. He focuses on some of the target market and intentions that drives their premium theme service. He also talks a bit about some of the backend infrastructure that they're using with the Project module & Drush Make's in order to automatically package up all of their various theming downloads.
LA Drupal User Group organizer Chris Charlton talks about some of the plug-ins that he's written for Adobe's Dreamweaver as well as configuration settings for the Eclipse IDE. These third-party plug-ins are intended to help streamline the theming workflow with tools that a lot of designers are already familiar with, as well as help set up some configuration settings for the open source Eclipse IDE.
Avinash Harsh of Halosys talks about how Drupal can integrate with a mobile web application, and talks about some of the larger mobile trends that are happening and how Drupal fits into the mobile ecosystem as either a data backend via the services module or as part of a mobile app's social web presence.
Amye Scavarda (aka msamye) talks about some of the discussions about Project Management that were happening at DrupalCon San Francisco. She mentions a couple of presentations that she was involved with including The Care and Feeding of Project Managers and YOU SHALL NOT PASS: Managing Expectations and Boundaries of Clients.
Mike Ryan of Cyrve talks about some of the improvements and re-architecture of the migrate module that is happening in the 2.0 development branch of the module for Drupal 7.
Djun Kim (aka puregin) talks about the Drupal code complexity presentation that he gave at the Core Developer's Summit before DrupalCon San Francisco. He presented some graphics on the following Drupal code statistics:Number of Files per Drupal ReleaseCode size & Function function definitions per Drupal ReleaseLines of Code per Drupal ReleaseFile Types percentages per Drupal ReleaseComment & code lines by Drupal Release Number of Function calls per Drupal ReleaseDrupal vs.
Robert Douglass talks about his experiences with Drupal's Internationalization and localization systems through the Internationalization (I18n) module and ICanLocalize Translator module, which integrates with the ICanLocalize.com translation service. He also talks about some of his lessons learned, and how the i18n process could still be improved in Drupal 8.For more information, check out Douglass' DrupalCon presentation Parlez vous Internet?
