Events

I will be giving a 45 minute talk on the new generation of developer tools available for Drupal at Froscon 2006 in Sankt Augustin, Germany. Join me after the talk for improvised Drupal talk/coding sessions.

http://www.froscon.org/wiki/FrOSCon

The session description

New tools are available that will make Drupal easier to customize and which will reduce the workload of programmers dramatically. Individually, these tools are each powerful and interesting in their own right, but used together they can revolutionize the way Drupal is used to build web applications.

The Tools
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Content Construction Kit (CCK) [2]

The ability to define custom data types easily, and from the web interface, is one of the most popular features of Drupal today, with the flexinode module[1] being one of the most popular modules. With Drupal 4.7, a new tool has emerged that overcomes flexinode's limitations with regards to performance while adding semantic meaning to fields, making them reusable, and separating the concepts of data type and user interface.

Views [3]

The views module is Drupal's version of saved queries with a reporting tool built on top. Views enables the custom presentation of existing data, including tabular and list views.

Actions [4]

A Drupal action is a specially written PHP function that can be named, configured through the web interface, and saved.

I think it is high time that we had a Drupal users group in Köln and Bonn. See the topic on the German website if you'd like to participate and help:
http://www.drupalcenter.de/node/880

on home page using the function "event_block_upcoming" to display 2 items. problem: need to force the dates to a 2nd line:

this is how it now looks
Big Fun Event, 4/21/06-
4/2806

in Firefox, it breaks ok. in IE/Win, it tends to run out of the box

i've been looking at event.module but my php is limited. i've found the function in the module, but no idea how to force the formatting -- instead of a comma following the event, i want a break.

dig?

tia

t.a.

I was thinking of planning a meet-and-greet / code session for Drupal in Los Angeles, CA, USA if we had some people interested in it.

Gillian's Cafe in Universal Citywalk, Universal City, CA (Right off the 101 before Lankershim)
March 20th, 12 Noon

If there are more that would be interested in this, let me know, and if there's a chance at making a site-sponsored event of it, that would be great.