Tag Archives: drupalchi

Drupal as a platform

By NUAMPS on 10 Mar 2011 – 3:31 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

Learning about building Building Drupal Platforms! Check out house.gov for a great example of Drupal as a platform.

Things I’ve learned at DrupalCon (so far)

By NUAMPS on 10 Mar 2011 – 2:43 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

I’m not entirely sure where to start with what I’ve learned at DrupalCon.  I have been introduced to somewhere between 10-20 new modules.  The number 1 module that I should be using but haven’t is: FEATURES! So far, not know about Features has made me feel the worst.  There are some brilliant folks here at [...]

Playing SnapSkit at DrupalCon

By NUAMPS on 10 Mar 2011 – 2:13 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

Two of the people I mentioned yesterday Brian McMurray and Steven Merrill, both of these guys work at TreeHouseAgency.  Part of their sponsorship of DrupalCon 2011 included the creation of the SnapSkit app.  The app presents you with a list of challenges, to fulfill the challenges you take and upload a photo. You should check [...]

Watching the creation of a Drupal distribution

By NUAMPS on 9 Mar 2011 – 5:21 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

By far one of the best sessions I’ve been to so far and it’s being taught by a 15 year old! How awesome! http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/zero-distribution-using-features-profiler-and-drush-make

Automated Drupal Testing

By NUAMPS on 9 Mar 2011 – 2:33 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

The iPhone camera is great…when you have enough light! Anyways, I’m in a session with another Bradley guy, Steven Merrill (SVEN).  Steve is also an alumni from the Bradley Interactive Media department and while I was at Bradley Steve was actually teaching some of the web courses.  His session today is about automated Drupal testing, [...]

JQuery Mobile and Drupal?

By NUAMPS on 9 Mar 2011 – 12:13 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

Brian McMurray is giving a presentation on Jquery Mobile.  Brian is a fellow Bradley Interactive Media (formerly Multimedia) graduate.  The big question is can we combine JQuery mobile with Drupal?

Views for Hackers

By NUAMPS on 8 Mar 2011 – 5:46 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

Views is the most used module outside of core! My posts are light, not really insightful about whats happening, but so far DrupalCon has been great.  I have been able to meet up with some friends within the Drupal community, Jon and I have run into some of our Northwestern Library friends that involved with [...]

Getting Early Estimates Right

By NUAMPS on 8 Mar 2011 – 3:13 pm
Location: (41° 53' 21"N x 88° 22' 50"W)

Great session about estimating projects!  Check out the presentation resources here: bit.ly/drupalestimating

Competing with Giants

By NUAMPS on 8 Mar 2011 – 2:12 pm
Location: (41° 53' 22"N x 88° 23' 1"W)

The first session that I selected was Competing with Giants, the idea that Drupal can hold its own in the CMS cage match that’s happening at the enterprise level (my interpretation).

DrupalCon 2011

By NUAMPS on 8 Mar 2011 – 11:15 am
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

I feel pretty bad using WordPress to make updates about DrupalCon! Either way, I thought the badges were pretty cool with QR codes for individual contact information.

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