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Teach, people, teach

Submitted by chacha on Thu, 2010-08-26 00:25

Why teaching development is important

Teach.

Lately, I have been really thinking about something that I have a really hard time imagining - but am working really hard to find ways to make it happen in my lifetime: writing code with people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Solving our community issues with code. Cause I seriously heart computers, and I heart programming, logic, design patterns & software architecture. I am a huge fan and it is taking a really long time to get anywhere with it, but I am sticking it out.

Services

Drupal & teaching services.

Chach is available to help you create your Drupal website, or to teach you, or a class about web programming.

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Teaching Services

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Internet Variety Store

Submitted by chacha on Mon, 2010-07-26 00:09

As part of storefrontinabox.com, I rented a storefront for a week and created an interactive, educational, analog version of the Internet.

As part of storefrontinabox.com, I rented a storefront for a week and created an interactive, educational, analog version of the Internet.

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More Views Notes

Submitted by chacha on Sun, 2010-05-16 10:11

more views notes

Ohhhh -- it is slowly becoming more clear

have to run but want to share this tips

  1. the handbook page is an archive/redirection & says to go to views advanced help
    the 3 pages in advanced help that relate to module development can be seen here:

http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/api

and then there are 3 pages that talk about setting up a views module, and making handlers - plugins - styles

  1. views developers groups on drupal org
    has 900 members - mainly they have been talking about views 3

  2. i heard once that there is a views IRC channel

DRAFT: Integrating Views 2 into Your Modules: How to learn how

Submitted by chacha on Wed, 2010-05-12 19:53

Article about integrating Views 2 into Modules

Integrating Views 2 into Your Modules

an attempt at an explanation

Note: If I have anything wrong in this article, please correct me. I want to get a decent draft together and then add it to drupal.org somewhere.

Audience

This article is for experienced Drupal developers.
In order for this article to make sense, you would need to know:
* PHP - intermediate (you do not need to have magical PHP powers, but understanding the difference between an array and an object would help)

Plan to contribute to Views documentation

Submitted by chacha on Wed, 2010-05-12 16:33

My plan to help with views documentation

Thinking of areas of views documentation that would've helped me to figure out how to make views handlers

Background: I had a hard time learning how to do this, and then was shown how by my co-worker. My internet searches, use of the Views 2 API and views pages on drupal.org were not sufficient. After learning how to build these I realized that nothing I found on the internet would have helped me put the pieces together.

Views integration & Views Documentation: a serious problem

Submitted by chacha on Fri, 2010-05-07 00:16

A rant about views integration & documentation.

The last two days at work, I had to 'write some views plugins.'

Now, I am someone who prides herself on being able to figure out most code-related problems, provided a little bit of documentation & some source code. I have a reasonable amount of confidence.

The things that I can never do in Drupal are usually things like writing fields, making widgets, or things like 'doing views integration.' In the past I have tried, mangled a whole bunch of code together, and then wind up giving up because I traipse down a long chain of code and it goes nowhere and wastes so much time.

Drupalcon: Advanced Drush

Submitted by chacha on Wed, 2010-04-21 13:05

Notes from Advanced Drush session

sites (targeting your drush site

drush -r -l (root, url)

drush 3 there is now an alias
$aliases['dev'] = array(
'root' => 'path/to/drupal',
'uri' => 'dev.ddrupalsite.com',
'site-type'=>'dev',
'remote-host' => 'rootsite.com',
'remote-user' => 'username'
);

usage:
drush @dev status
(nice!)

alias topics
site alias commands
alias files
remote aliases
remote command execution
aliast inhereitance
@self aliasas
@site alias
list of aliases

sa : is the site alias command
> drush sa
@aliasofsite1
@aliasofsite2

> drush sa @alias
(shows config of the site)

Drupalcon: The state of Drupal as a Web Application & Product Platform

Submitted by chacha on Mon, 2010-04-19 13:03

Building products with Drupal

Notes from "The state of Drupal as a Web Application & Product Platform"

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Zivtech)
Textbooks/publishing for schools
Al Fresco/Salesforce

Zack Rosen (Chapter Three)
d-space -> civicspace
designing drupal to solve a particular market problem
working on mercury now, building a solution for drupal hosting

Chris Brookins (Acquia)
Acquia Drupal Distribution (pre-packaged Drupal download)
Drupal Gardens (wordpress.com equiv for Drupal 7)

Eric Gunderson
International Development
Open Atrium (90,000 downloads)
Managing News
http://drupal.org/project/kit

Hot and Dirty Drupal Developer Summer Garden Project

Submitted by chacha on Fri, 2010-03-12 19:32

This is a summer project that will help newer Drupal Developers learn essential open source development skills, while working on something fun. http://garden.localbiology.org/

** New Website! http://garden.localbiology.org/

Project Description

We will create a special installation of Drupal which is designed for sharing information about gardens. This project will be like Open Atrium in that we would create an open source platform for the gardening project. The platform could be used by home gardeners, city or community gardens. The data will be designed in a way that it will be made accessible to other projects through geotagged RSS feeds.

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