Presentation
I've been working on a presentation for the camp, on setting up an Omega subtheme. I am hoping it will be fun and I don't wind up boring or confusing people.
DrupalCamp MD
DrupalCamp MD is going to be this Friday and Saturday, February 10 and 11! First Maryland DrupalCamp ever, hopefully first annual. It is going to be lots of fun. Check out the site for details: DrupalCamp Maryland.
Testing a responsive site on your phone with MAMP Pro
This is just a tidbit that I figured out. There are probably easier ways to do this, and I would love to hear about them.
In MAMP, you can set up your computers IP address on your local network as a site alias, and then put the host on a port, like 9999. Then, let's say your computer IP address is 10.0.1.12, and your phone is connected to the network, you should be able to browse to the site on your phone at 10.0.1.12:9999
You will need to have the users for Apache and MySQL set to _www/mysql for this to work, NOT to your username on your computer.
CapitalCamp!
The first DC Drupal camp is going to be in July. Check out the website at http://capitalcamp.org
Git
Since Drupal.org has now completely moved from CVS to Git, I have been looking to learn how to use Git. I have tried to make use of CVS a few times, but I think Git is going to be a lot more fun (A few people at DrupalCon told me about the sandboxes, you can now upload 'scratch' code you are working on to share with others)
I just wanted to share this Git tutorial that I found: Git Immersion. It is very hands-on, haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but I feel like I have the basics down now.
DrupalCon 2011
Got back from DrupalCon Chicago 2011 yesterday. This was my first DrupalCon, and it was a fantastic experience. I went with my coworker, and we flew in on Sunday night. We both took part in the preconference training. I took the 'Intro to Module Development' training with Jody Hamilton and Howard Tyson of Zivtech (they are based in Philly).
Content Access, permissions, and input formats
While I was troubleshooting a private forum setup on a Drupal site I am working on, I ran in to a frustrating problem, a user in a role that seemed to have all the right permissions wasn't getting edit access to nodes that they should have.
Ubuntu upgrade
I just updated my desktop from Karmic Koala to Lucid Lynx. I'm going through O'Reilly's Head First Programming book and I was having some issues with the GUI chapter, and I was sort of hoping that the update would fix that. Oh well. The upgrade went smoothly. Nothing appears to be shockingly different so far, there are a few slight improvements to UI, but for the most part everything seems to be where I left it.
Going to DrupalCon!
My boss is sending me and a coworker to DrupalCon Chicago! I'm pretty excited. We went to the last (Dec 9-11 2009) DIWD in New Orleans, and that was a lot of fun. Met a lot of interesting people from a lot of different types of businesses and other walks of life. This will be my first DrupalCon though. I almost got to go to DrupalCon DC at my previous job, but when we went to register it had already sold out. I've been kicking myself for that for a while now.
Menu Editor: a great module for working with menus in Drupal
One of the Drupal modules I have discovered recently is called Menu Editor http://drupal.org/project/menu_editor.
It's a great module for two reasons. It lets you edit all the titles and paths in a menu in a compact, one-page format, and it also allows you to set up placeholder links for pages that don't exist yet. The placeholder links are very handy for theme work. I also like how it adds more direct access to individual menus when used with the Admin Menu module!
Pages
