Do It With Drupal: jQuery

December 9th 2009
See slides here [http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/2009/sessions/jquery-drupal]. * What's jQuery: javascript library, circumvents browser incompatibility * Known for things like opacity, AJAX requests that work across all browsers * Visual effects and "wow factor" * Reducing javascript code... read more

Do It With Drupal: Geolocation

December 9th 2009
* You can use full html to input a map straight from Google * Geo, Geocode, OpenLayers modules * Standards compliance * Example functions: within, touches, crosses - also, distance, area, perimeter... read more

Do It With Drupal: Configuring a Kick-Ass WYSIWYG Editor

December 9th 2009
* To make it easier for people to format text without knowing HTML, you could do filters, and/or editors * Filters change stuff - people type things, filter changes that on output * A ton of modules that provide filters in addition to the core * Filter only makes its transformations on output... read more

Do It With Drupal: New York Senate

December 8th 2009
Background * Transforming an anachronistic organization with Drupal * In control of Republican party for 44 years * Never had a CIO before January 2009 - focused on internal enterprise IT before * People were cutting out and pasting articles from papers... read more

Do It With Drupal: The Economist

December 8th 2009
Rob robpurdie@economist.com [robpurdie@economist.com] - Scrum Practice Leader twitter.com/robpurdie facebook.com/robpurdie Overview * Moving incrementally and iteratively to Drupal- making improvements as you move bit by bit * User comments and recommendations served from Drupal... read more