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drupalcon.jpg Wow the drupalcon in paris looks like it got a pretty sexy and steamy program for us who dont live in a terminal, and like pretty colors (and sweet markup)

So this is the picks ive found so far im gonna checkout - please letme know if i missed something :)

Day 1:

16:00 ??
#d4d Meetup Lets  make a revolution and look pretty awesome while doing it ?
This is not confirmed or anything, but the idea is simple -lets try to gather the designer, themers etc and try to take the push we started in DCDC and make it rock a bit further.

The first day is mostly comercial training so i thought it would be cool to meetup?

19:?? 

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As a developer there is often a point in your career where you take a look at the number of client databases installed on your hard drive and start thinking "boy, I hope that data never falls into the wrong hands." And, if you're like most web developers and use a laptop, the chances of having a laptop lost or stolen are surprisingly high. It happens to the best of us.

Further, chances are quite good that you are using Windows or Mac for your working environment but want to run your sites in a Linux environment just like you have on your servers.

How about this: create a Linux server that runs inside of a virtual environment and then put the disk image for that virtual server into an encrypted drive image. Perfect! This tutorial assumes you use Mac OSX - but the same principles could be applied to any operating system. This setup is meant to be reasonably safe against typical thieves, but doesn't protect the data completely.

Virtualbox Virtualization to the Rescue

Of course I'm mostly an open source fan so I'll try the Open Source virtualization option first. And...Virtualbox works quite well.

First create some space for your disk image. I fired up the Mac Disk Utility, selected compressed and 128 bit encryption like so:

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Due to the rapid growth of our preferred CMS, many Drupal companies are looking for new employees. Developers, designers, themers, whether you are a wise experienced ninja or a young crazy student you may find your next job at DrupalCon Paris 2009.

For this reason, we invite everyone seeking a career working with Drupal, to come to the first ever DrupalCon job-fair.

The job-fair will take place Thursday, the 3rd of September, at the Maison Internationale from 5pm to 8pm.

Thanks to the the sponsorship of Drupal integrator Calibrate, I've just released a new Drupal module that integrates your Drupal site with your Campaign Monitor account.

Campaign Monitor is a fully rebrandable online mailing list tool, and by adding this module you can integrate the users of your Drupal site with your Campaign Monitor subscriber lists, in a quite advanced way. This module includes features like:

• Support for multiple lists.
• Automatic fetching of lists and fields from your Campaign Monitor account.
• Asynchronous pushing of subscription and unsubscription requests to make it fast and reliable to keep things synced.
• Match Campaign Monitor custom fields to Drupal tokens, profile fields and PHP code.

Visit the Drupal site to grab the Campaign Monitor Advanced module. If you don't need that level of integration, you can use the simpler existing Campaign Monitor module, which is still available.

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We're heading to Paris to serve up a sweet entree of 15 five-minute speed presentations showcasing some of the most tasty Drupal dishes!

How to Eat 15 Drupal Sites in 90 Minutes

Do you have a yummy site and the skills to show it off in just 5 minutes?

All 15 presenters will be speed-geeking in the Ignite presentation format (20 slides, 15 seconds each) as we chow through all the sweet deliciousness.

If you think you have what it takes to cook up something special and you can already taste your 5 minutes of fame, then let us know that you want to play!

The only question remains -- can you stand the heat?!

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As you may have experienced on your own, when being involved in consulting and development business, it can be very hard to find the time to work on your own presentation, which - of course - totally must include your great ideas and showcase your own quality standards... ;)

Like many other content management systems, Drupal is built on PHP. With PHP, you can dig in and make it do whatever you want. Likewise, you can dig into Drupal and make it do most everything you want - well, almost. If you’re not afraid of writing PHP code, then the sky’s the limit. If you’re limited by the time and desire to learn PHP, then Panels is likely the way to go!

If you’re seeking a high degree of control, regarding the individual building blocks which make up the output of your Drupal site, you can choose one or more of the following. In order of complexity (and decreasing silliness) you can A) generate an XSLT parsing system to re-render what was already rendered by Drupal from your own custom module built to output custom XML code, B) become a Drupal theming master (a topic for another video series) or C) use Panels and be done with it.

My suggestion is to go with ‘C’ and be done with it. Hopefully, this video will provide you with the head start you’re looking for when working with the Panels module.

There was a great question on Drupal developers mailing list the other day—one to which I've "rediscovered" the solution to a few times—so I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of it.

The basic question is:

When a node is being saved, how can you see what values have changed?

The short answer is:

Use the 'presave' operation to load a copy of the node before it's saved, stick it back into the node object, and in your 'update' operation code compare the "before" and "after" versions:

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It recently came to my attention that there are some gaps in my conceptualization of Drupal security. I was fortunate enough to have this pointed out to me by the Drupal Security Team, and not by a DOS, CSFR, SQL injection or XSS attack. After publicly bemoaning the mild lashing I received, four members of the Drupal community suggested I read Cracking Drupal. One of them even sent me a copy. No other book was even mentioned, which says to me that - considering how recently it was released - the book fills a void of knowledge that was seriously aching for coverage, and fills it well.

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Since Drupalcon DC I have had the change to present some sessions on Mobile Drupal at different drupal camps accross the US including the New York drupalcamp, Denver and this month in LA.
Most of my presentations are gathered in this blog, but can be easily viewed on Slideshare.

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Summer has been busy so I did not get too much time to upload my presentation for Drupalcamp LA!

Here it is!

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Since releasing the first Project Mercury AMI, I've been talking in general terms about the kind of performance you can get out of this Pressflow/Varnish combination. Over the weekend, I was able to do some more concrete testing, and the results are pretty eye-popping.

For my testing, I used standard small EC2 instances and measured cached page throughput as I added each layer in Drupal's caching stack, and compared that to Mercury. The initial results and technical details are posted on the EC2/AWS group on g.d.o, but this morning I put together a graph. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have to agree:

As you can see, Mercury delivers an order of magnitude in page throughput, while maintaining top speeds and keeping load low. Simply put, this is what you want if you're dealing with internet-scale traffic (e.g. digg, drudge, perez). For those who are interested, there are more details and some discussion on the ec2 group post.

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Just a week to go, and we are busy, frenetically working on the last details to get you the coolest, most fun, most informative Drupal Conference ever. We cannot but express our regrets to those who will not be able to join us: know that we have worked hard to get you as much video coverage as possible, so you can still follow the conference.

Mon, Aug 24, 2009 by Scott

Recently, I spent time doing some research for a project that consisted of re-designing a website for an educational institution. I wanted to see what some of the higher profile universities and colleges were doing with their sites, but my findings were that most of them were completely outdated from a design standpoint, and not overly usable. The most common things I found were homepages that were extremely wordy and navigation systems that were far too complex. With tuition prices always on the rise, and the ever-growing importance having a strong online identity, I really feel that an Institution's website should be a priority. Especially since it is often the first thing that people see (from all over the world) when researching their education.

With that being said, I did come across a few diamonds in the rough. Here are the top 5 best. The most surprising thing to me is that Harvard, MIT, Yale and other notable institutions didn't make the list...not even close.

5) Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

www.nait.ca

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During the first day of the first DrupalCon in Paris, DrupalCampParis4 will be held : an event open for all, conference participants as well as anyone who would like to show up (but do register... we have to know how many people come)! Alongside, Frederic Marand, an expert trainer, will hold a Views 2 for coders 4 hours hands-on training workshop.

This past year has been filled with huge advancements in the open source web application world. Big content management systems such as Wordpress & Drupal have added big technologies to their arsenal that have made them a no brainer choice over proprietary content management systems. But there have also been improvements in other areas of open source web applications which makes you wonder… how much $ could one make online using these applications?

With the open source technologies that are on hand and ready to use, there is no excuse why more people cannot find success making $ online anymore. Below is a quick breakdown of a few ways to make money online and the open source web applications to help get you there.

1. Start A Blog - Wordpress

Blogging has very much become a popular source for making money online. But people are still using online apps like Blogspot and paid services such as Squarespace. If you haven’t already received the memo, here it is. Use Wordpress for your blogging platform. All the major bloggers on the web are using it and you would be wise to as well. Blogs such as Problogger.net by Darren Rowse will help you learn how exactly to blog for an income.

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In this article, seven distinctly different page loading profiling tools are compared: UA Profiler, Cuzillion, YSlow, Hammerhead, Apache JMeter, Gomez/Keynote/WebMetrics/Pingdom, Jiffy and Episodes. "Profiling" must be interpreted rather broadly: some of the tools cannot measure actual performance but are useful to gain insight in page loading performance characteristics.

Profiling tools

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
— Lord Kelvin

The same applies to page loading performance: if you cannot measure it, you cannot know which parts have the biggest effect and thus deserve your focus. So before doing any real work, we will have to figure out which tools can help us analyzing page loading performance.

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I just finished reading a new book, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery, by Matt Butcher. The book title makes it sound highly specialized, but in fact it's a great resource for a variety of readers, from Drupal beginners to JavaScript experts. Best of all, the book brings together two of my favorite open source technologies: Drupal and jQuery. If you aren't already a fan, I've written elsewhere about Drupal's benefits, and for jQuery, one statement should win you over: query HTML content using plain old CSS selectors!

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In case you're not on the Lullabot mailing list and you haven't seen the post on DoItWithDrupal.com, I just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that based on the popularity of last year's Do It With Drupal Seminar, we've decided to Do It again!

Do It With Drupal 2009 will be held December 9th, 10th, and 11th at the New Orleans Marriot at the edge of French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. Registrations open on Monday at 12:00pm Eastern and the first 25 registrations will get a special deal.

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In case you're not on the Lullabot mailing list and you haven't seen the post on DoItWithDrupal.com, I just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that based on the popularity of last year's Do It With Drupal Seminar, we've decided to Do It again!

Do It With Drupal 2009 will be held December 9th, 10th, and 11th at the New Orleans Marriot at the edge of French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. Registrations open on Monday at 12:00pm Eastern and the first 25 registrations will get a special deal.

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