Drupal Ireland group

Does anyone know of academic institutions offering classes or courses which cover Drupal?

Both face to face and/or online?

NB: Not courses using Drupal as a medium, rather: Drupal as the subject matter.

I would love to hear from lecturers who are planning courses, or who have taught Drupal in their courses. I would like to see examples, how they fit in to the existing academic programmes in their institutions, how they promote it, and what the outcomes have been.

Thank you!

Research and academia

Hi folks,
I need to add custom metatags to nodes in particular I need to add the Dublin Core set eg "[meta name="DC.Creator" content="My organisation etc" ]". There are over 10 tags. Can I use nodewords or node (key)words module or is there a better way?

many thanks - Bren

Ireland

Hi all,

I need to do a simple filter to remove some odd character that get imported into my nodes [bulk import].

The characters are

ºº

and I need to replace them with a
<br />.

I've built a little filter module, which will do the trick, but my regex skills are , well, non existent.

I've tried
<?php
$text = eregi('ºº','<br />',$text);
?>
to no avail.

Can anybody help?

Alan

Ireland

As I was suggesting to Alan yesterday, we should organize informal meetings once a month or so in Galway where people could bring along their site and ask all sorts of Drupal related questions. I'm not sure how many people in this group would be interested: it would be great if those leaving around Galway could leave a comment to gauge the general interest. There are more people in Galway who would be interested but who are not subscribed to this group yet.

Optionally there could be a topic decided in advance if some users are willing to present or to learn about something specific.

Meeting will be at DERI, IDA Business park, Lower Dangan. see map at http://useamap.com/deri

Any interest?

Ireland

Hi all,

Myself and Stephane have agreed that we will organise the next Ireland Drupal meetup .

Subject to confirmation, the venue will be DERI building at NUI, Galway.

The proposed date is Saturday April 4th 2009.

We've just thrown this out now, so people can plan early,
[and raise objections early too if needs be :-) ]

More details in due course.

Regards
Alan

Ireland

In one of the sessions on Saturday, I showed (ripped through very quickly) a site you could make with just Drupal core. Then later on I saw several presenters mention the MUST HAVE modules. There are alot of modules on Drupal.org. So sifting through them can be tough. First off, you should try out the most popular and essential modules. I started a list here.

I'm curious what other modules people consider essential?

Here you can see some stats on Drupal Modules usage: http://drupal.org/project/usage

Also on DrupalModules.com you can see most favorited modules: http://drupalmodules.com/top-favorites

I grouped them by task, and also made BOLD the ones which were super important (in my opinion)

1. Site maintenance:
   • Drupal Administration Menu - The first module you should install... Stella & Scor showed their installations and how it makes it much easier to pop around to different sections of a site. I always install this now - it is really essential.
   • Devel - Alan referred to this as a way to identify names of files or fields which you can theme with functions or files-based themes
   • CAPTCHA - this helps block spam submissions and bogus user accounts being created.
   • Pathauto & Token - this makes search engine friendly URLs, and you can control a path/structure/ on your site. (pathauto requires token)
2. Site management and navigation:
3. Content management:
   • Views - I showed this in the hands on session for how to build a custom block of content.
     • Advanced help - if you use Views, and you're new to it- please install Advanced help! If you have idea for what to include in advanced help for views, please contact me.
   • Content Construction Kit (CCK) - This is how you make custom content types
     • ImageField Stella showed the image related modules in her presentation. This one adds image fields to your custom content types from CCK
   • Image - Stella showed the image related modules in her presentation
   • ImageCache Resizes images on the fly! Yay thumbnails!
   • Date - Scor demonstrated this module for managing date entries
4. Content creation & editing:
   • FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor
   • TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor
   • IMCE - helps add images to node body.
   • Admin Links - this helps your users easily edit and delete content from teaser views, this tiny little module is very handy!

Ireland

Securing the drupal files directory

Hi everone, im having a bit of a nightmare securing the /files directory of my drupal site from google. I have lots of important user information in here (i.e. 000's of users CS's with contact numbers, address etc) that google is searching and indexing like mad on me.

I thought I had this secured taking the following methods:
1) robots.txt file - Disallow: /files/ and also

no CV's

Disallow: /files/
Disallow: /files/.doc
Disallow: /files/.doc$
Disallow: /files/.pdf*
Disallow: /files/*.pdf$

2) Under the drupal file system settings - Private - files are transferred by Drupal.

I have done some research and im getting the impression I should have placed my files directory one up from the root to start with, but doing this now doesnt seme to be an option for me with the amount of bad linking users have done amongst all the CVs in the directories.

Has anyone any ideas how I can prevent google indexing my files directory, and better stilll, remove all the links to date it has recorded about the drupal directory? Im very scared of this growing larger

Ireland

DERI Galway will host the second VoCamp next week. VoCamp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabularies that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web. The intention is to follow a "paper first, laptops second" format, where the modelling is done initially on paper and only later committed to code. The VoCamp idea is heavily influenced by BarCamp, although the VoCamp should only have presentations where strictly necessary. Read more on VoCamp.

One of the topics which will be discussed is the Drupal core RDF Schema. As I outlined in the roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7, deciding on the best RDF classes and properties to map Drupal internal objects is key for a optimal integration of Drupal RDF data into the Semantic Web cloud. There is still debate on some aspects of the schema, for instance when it comes to versioning (node revisions). Some vocabularies sometimes overlap and it is still unclear which properties to use. Same goes for roles, which few vocabularies address at present. SIOC recently added the SIOC Access Ontology Module and I'm looking forward to applying it to the Drupal schema.

If you are interested in coming along, please register on the VoCampGalway2008 wiki where you will also find more information on how to get to Galway and where to stay.

Semantic Web

Hi everyone!

First off, thanks to everybody who made it to the Drupal Ireland meetup today. It was great to see so many people, especially so many new Drupal users! I hope to see you again at the next Drupal Ireland event, which I'm sure will be even bigger and better!

Which brings me to ask what people thought of today's event? Was it useful for you? Would you attend another similar event in the future? What things could we improve on or do differently next time? We've already decided to make the time for the individual presentations longer and to build in Q&A time and switching time into our schedule - fingers crossed we won't be sooooo pushed for time the next time we do this!

As for the presentations, what did you think of them and were they useful? Are there any topics that weren't covered, or not covered in enough detail, that people wished had been? Or which areas would you like to find out more about?

Would anyone be interested in a regular, but smaller, monthly Drupal meetup in Dublin?

I've run out of questions, but you get the idea! :)

All feedback and suggestions greatly appreciated!

I've also added an online survey form at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/83102/drupal-ireland-event-survey if you'd prefer to fill out that.

Cheers,
Stella

Ireland

In keeping with my "Getting Back in the Game" post, I'm ready to pick a date for the next lesson. Given the good experience, we'll try using DimDim for screen sharing to test that out.

This Sunday's lesson is going to be a general "Dive into Drupal" for those who already understand the basics of PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS, but need to wrap their heads around this crazy little thing called Drupal. My goal will be to cover these four major topics:

• Drupal Concepts: Hooks, Nodes, Core APIs
• NodeAPI: The Life of a Node
• Form Alter: Tweaking UI and Behavior
• Theme Layer: Content Output Control

The idea will be to spend about 15 - 20 minutes talking about how each of these systems work, best practices, etc, then pause for Q&A. These individual segments can then be packaged as shorter individual screen-casts.

Hopefully I'll come up with a great "here's how you do this" through-line.

Suggestions welcome!

Ireland

I Just submitted a patch for the Drupal eCommerce which included a localisation patch for Irish counties - so autocomplete forms work when a customer from the Island of Ireland is selecting their county (state).

This is by no means an official list. It's a list I compiled myself using the county codes from car registration plates as the basis.

If anyone knows of an official county code list for Ireland, please post a reply up here.

Code County Province ----------------------------------- AM Antrim Ulster AH Armagh Ulster C Cork Munster CE Clare Munster CN Cavan Ulster CW Carlow Leinster D Dublin Leinster DL Donegal Ulster DN Down Ulster DY Derry Ulster FH Fermanagh Ulster GW Galway Connacht KE Kildare Leinster KK Kilkenny Leinster KY Kerry Munster LD Longford Leinster LH Louth Leinster LK Limerick Munster LM Leitrim Connacht LS Laois Leinster MH Meath Leinster MN Monaghan Ulster MO Mayo Connacht OY Offaly Leinster RN Roscommon Connacht SO Sligo Connacht TE Tyrone Ulster TN Tipperary N Munster TS Tipperary S Munster WD Waterford Munster WH Westmeath Leinster WW Wicklow Leinster WX Wexford Leinster

Note: I notice on some sites I'm involved with there is an increase in people choosing Ireland instead of the UK as their country along with their postcode (particularly following when the United Kingdom was devolved - Northern Ireland assembly came together 8th may 2007) , so, NI counties are included to encompass Antrim, Armagh, Down, Derry, Fermanagh and Tyrone.

I have attached a county code array in a TXT file to make it easier to copy across the list of codes and counties.

cheers

dub

e-Commerce Module

http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw08/

Although not directly Drupal related, I though this would be of interest. The North West Drupal User Group will be exhibiting at the conference too, so come along and say hello!

phpnw08 is a 1 day conference, to be held on Saturday 22nd November 2008, for developers, designers, managers or anyone else with an interest in the PHP programming language.

The conference will have a range of well known as well as more local speakers and aims to highlight current best practice and emerging topics within the sphere of PHP and web development.

The 1st annual PHPNW conference will be held on Saturday 22nd November at Manchester Central and will bring together the North-of-England PHP community for a one-day event of exceptional presentations, challenging workshops, sensational debates and networking events.

History of PHPNW

PHPNW began early 2008 after a small steering group had the mutual desire to:

• improve PHP and related skills in the North-of-England
• encourage personal development for Web Developers
• allow opportunities for innovation and creation
• create a support network for the developers run by the development community
• allow opportunities to share experiences and best practices

Conference: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk
PHPNW Website: http://phpnw.org.uk/
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/phpnw
twitter: http://twitter.com/PHPNW
Events: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/4709/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/112906/3FCE41597A1B
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17897252075
IRC: #phpnw (irc.freenode.net)

North West UK

Hello to all you Drupallers based in Ireland!

I have just moved to Dublin as my girlfriend is starting a degree at Trinity, and thought I'd introduce myself to the group. My name is Tom, I'm 26 years old and from Oxford, UK. I've been working as a freelance web developer for over 6 years now, and 4 years of graphic design before that. I have experience with a huge number of technologies, including Drupal. Take a look at my website and portfolio if you like (which is built with Drupal) for samples of my work:

http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/resume
http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/portfolio

A good example of a Drupal site I have developed is:
http://www.playhouseharlow.com

A good example of what I'm all about is my personal coding website where I write regular articles about various aspects of web development:
http://www.codegobbler.com

I'm currently working on a new Drupal 6 website which is integrating ecommerce via Ubercart. I've written several custom Ubercart modules for my needs, I am also a maintainer of this Ubercart plugin on drupal.org:
http://drupal.org/project/uc_restrict_qty

I intend to release several of my own modules and D6 ports of existing modules onto drupal.org in the coming weeks.

So there you have it! I'll probably be attending the meeting/conference/get-together next month too. If anyone out there is looking for a Drupal developer in Dublin, you know where I am now!

Ireland

Collaborative Schedule! See a list of suggested presentations on the original thread.
Click edit to add your presentation, or make alterations.

9.30 Arrival & registration; Meet & greet 10:00 Session: Drupal Showcase & Possibilities

1. Welcome - from Deirdre Lawless, Stella Power and Heather James
2. Michael Lacey, 10 mins
3. Mobile Browser Testing With Drupal- Daniel Hunt, DotMobi, 20 mins
     This presentation focuses on some of the challenges that were faced when developing a mobile browser test suite in Drupal, and how dotMobi overcame them using a mix of custom and publicly available modules.
4. Feargal O'Kane
   www.grant-tracker.org 10 mins
5. Questions and answers

10.45 Session: Drupal Basics

1. Drupal Basics (includes making a Demo site); Heather James, 20 mins
     How to install, configure and get a basic Drupal site up and running.
2. Lightbox2 + Imagefield fun: Stella Power, 20 mins
     How to add images to your site and display them in a lightbox. This also covers a brief introduction to CCK and Views.
3. Questions and answers

11.30 Break 11:45 Session: Extend Drupal 1

1. Introduction to Ubercart: Frost (Mike Cahn), 20 mins
     How to use Ubercart to add a shopping cart to your site.
2. My Development Environment/Workflow: Galooph, 20 mins
     A quick overview of my development environment and the tools that I use. Comments/discussion invited!
3. How to contribute to Drupal: Scor, 20 mins - slides
     Interesting in getting involved? Learn how to help make Drupal bigger and better by adding more features, creating patches, testing and writing documentation!
4. Questions and answers

13.00 Lunch 14.00 Welcome back from lunch 14.15 Session: Extend Drupal 2

1. Drupal Theming: Alan Burke , 20 mins
     Change the look and feel of your site by creating your own design.
2. Drupal Module Basics: John Morahan , 20 mins
     Want to add a new killer feature? Find out how!
3. Drupal and the Semantic Web: Scor, 20 mins - slides
     Learn about the next generation of machine readable web, and what the new trends are when it comes to adding semantics to your data in Drupal.
4. Questions and answers

15.30 Break 15.45 Session: Hands On

1. Demonstrations, hands-on help, and all your remaining questions answered.

16.15 Wrap up

1. Recap days event
2. Raffle, wee!!
3. Questions, actions, planning for future

Ireland

I think it would be nice to have a list of irish sites running on Drupal in this group. There are some nice sites on http://www.cycletraffic.com/ for example.
There is already http://www.drupalsites.net/countries/ireland and the good thing is it has ratings and clicks so it makes sense to reuse it. Maybe we should recommend people from this group to include their site on http://www.drupalsites.net/ and tag it properly with 'ireland'. We could then use the feed http://www.drupalsites.net/countries/ireland/feed to display them on groups.drupal.org/ireland.

opinions?

Ireland

I'm in the process of looking for sponsorship and a suitable venue in Manchester for a Drupalcamp. I'm aiming to make it a two day event, but other than that, I'm after some input on the format and content.

So, what would you like to see at your ideal Drupalcamp Manchester? Who would you like to see talk? What topics are you most interested in? Would you prefer to see talks, workshops or a mix of the two? I'm open to ideas, so please fire away and help make Drupalcamp Manchester an event to remember :-)

Dan

North West UK

This position is now filled. Thank you

We require an experienced Drupal developer for a one year large scale web site support and development contract.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience with:
Creating and/or contributing to Drupal and/or custom modules
CiviCRM
Drupal Module development
Creating, designing and editing themes in Drupal
SOAP

PHP
MySQL
AJAX
SQL
Ecommerce development

Please supply a portfolio of sites.

Candidates based in Dublin or Ireland will be preferred.

This position is now filled. Thank you

Ireland

We're looking for someone to do up an invoice template for Ubercart based on a customer's pre-existing invoice form. This is paid work, not a big job but there may be other tasks in the pipeline.

More details in the bounty area here:
http://www.ubercart.org/forum/bounties/6688/change_invoice_template

Ireland

About this page:

If you are a developer in Ireland and available for Drupal development, please join this group and EDIT this page to list your name here, what services you offer and link to your website/portfolio.

Please copy this formatting sample here, and paste below in the list editing with your information.

Your Name- Website title - County or Region

• Specialties and skills listed
• Specialties and skills listed

List of Developers: Stella Power- Annertech, Personal blog- Dublin

• PHP
• Drupal module development - am maintainer on Lightbox2, Coder, FAQ and Avatar Selection
• JavaScript, AJAX and jQuery
• Coding standards

Alan Burke (http://drupal.org/user/35997) - Cycletraffic - Galway

• Drupal Installation and Configuration
• Theme development
• Basic Module development
• Consulting

Working full time for Proactive Design and Marketing

Stéphane Corlosquet - OpenSpring - Galway

• Semantic Web - Neologism
• Security
• Consulting
• see http://drupal.org/user/52142 for more details

Working full time at DERI.

Tom Kirkpatrick- Kirkdesigns - Dublin

• Drupal Installation and Configuration
• Drupal theming
• Drupal module development and customisation
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript / jQuery / AJAX
• PHP / Perl / Python / RoR / MySQL / Apache
• Graphic design

Working as a freelance web developer for the last 6 years

Eoin Bailey - Personal Site - Dublin

• Drupal Installation and Configuration
• Drupal Theming
• Module Development - Developer of chess module, also some custom modules

Currently a researcher in UCD Dublin, part of the Systems Research Group, and Lero

Ireland

We're planning a fun and informative day in Dublin for both novice Drupal users and Drupal developers.

Our gracious and generous hosts at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology, The School of Computing) are providing the space free of charge, as well as tea/coffee and a lunch for attendees! We have room for one large space, and smaller rooms for break-out sessions. All of the rooms are in DIT on Kevin St. View the map.

Everyone welcome! Please register on this site, and use the "sign up" button here if you plan to attend.

Please download the event poster, print out and post where you can. Poster in PDF**

Freebies! Lynda.com have offered coupons for free access to online Drupal training videos; as well as a Lynda.com Drupal Training DVD, which we will raffle off! (a $50 US value) And the grand prize in the raffle is a year's hosting for a Drupal site, sponsored by Indytech!!!

Program

The list of sessions and schedule has now been finalised! Details can be found at Meet-up Schedule.

Accommodation

Please also see the list here: http://icitst.infonomics.org.uk/2008/conference/accommodation.htm
Please indicate that you require the DIT rate when booking.

Hotels

• Jury's Inn Christchurch (Map) - Price: EUR 160 per room per night (single, twin or double)
• Mercer Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 160 per room per night
• Central Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 113.50 (single), EUR 147 (double/twin), add EUR 10 for breakfast
• Harding Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 108 (add EUR 7-10 for breakfast).
• Buswells Hotel - Price: EUR 115 (single), EUR 130 (double), add EUR 10 per person for breakfast
• Drury Court Hotel - Price: EUR 129 (single), EUR 159 (double/twin)

Hostels

• Kinlay House (Map) - Price: EUR 18 - 32 per night per person, depending on room type.
• Four Courts Hostel (Map) - Price: EUR 20 - 37 per person per night, depending on room type.

Most of these are within a 10-15 minute walk of the venue. There are others closer (more expensive) and further away (cheaper) - if you want information on these please let us know.

Sponsors

A special word of thanks to our sponsors without whom this event wouldn't be possible.

• School of Computing, DIT - major thank you for providing the free venue and catering!
• CivicActions - for their sponsorship and support
• Indytech - for providing the grand prize for the raffle - a year's hosting for a Drupal site!
• Lynda.com - for providing free access to online Drupal training videos, along with the Drupal Training DVD for our raffle

** Download poster original .eps file if you want to edit it/modify for your needs. The extension is .txt, rename it to .eps (due to uploading problems). Font used is Diavlo

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