Drupal Ireland Group

Hi all,

So who's making the trip to Copenhagen for Drupalcon?

I'll be there, and I'll be in Copenhagen and surrounds for the previous week on holidays too.

I haven't booked any accommodation for Monday to Friday just yet.
Is anybody looking to share an apartment or a large hostel room even.
This place
http://www.danhostelcopenhagen.dk
is literally across the road from the conference venue.

Regards
Alan

Ireland

Hi Folks,
Anybody migrated Drupal 6.17 from an Apache box to a Zeus web server box. I have a Drupal site sitting in www.mysite.ie/cms working fine but ISP (Register365) is terminating the service. I did a MySql export and imported up to to the new box. Then I FTPed the original Drupal cms files to a subdirectory /cms (mimic original structure) on the new box. I have a .html redirect file in the Zeus root (Register365 idea) giving me access to the index.php file in the new Zeus /cms directory. So I flicked da DNS switch to point to the new box - DISASTER I can not get past the index page all site links giving ERROR 404s even when I login as admin user. Datatbase upload looks good re tables & records size wise etc. Could I have tripped an obvious gotcha? Clean URLs maybe knocking me out! Any help very welcome.

Regards
Bren

Ireland

Hi,

I'm developing a site at the moment and have hit a brick wall that has me going round in loops for weeks now.

Essentially I have a Acquia Marina subtheme that I have created. All works well except for one thing:

I have fixed width and height of the primary divs that contain the links to meet the design requirements.
My issue is that when there is a single line link it aligns to the top of the div. longer links wrap and are aligned vertically correctly (the font and line height allow them to appear vertically centre aligned).

I have tried using the table method to align them but this throws off my submenus.
I have also tried a few other pure CSS methods to no avail.
At this stage I'm getting to close to offering someone some cash to have a look at this one issue.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated or anybody willing take a look at the problem for cash would also be apprecited.

I just want to get the job done, out the door and get paid.

Ireland

New Company Organisation Developer Employment type:  Contract Telecommute:  Allowed

Hi

i got email from friend, he ask me to advice him, i suggest drupal CMS package ...so i have put details on drupal ireland

if you are interested to get touch with him

then email me Jedistev@gmail.com

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I am planning to set up the Independent Online Service for Deaf Community as self employed. See below on what it will show. Since I don’t have IT skills to create and develop website. I can only input and update the data and information. It means I will need to hire someone or company to create the website for me. I googled around and too many information and I am not sure if its right cost or etc. I am also hoping to make income through ads, etc. Can you advise me what I should do?

Thanks

Kevin

Online Service will involve

The Community Hub

Deaf Community News

Entertainment

Sports Network

The International

Directory and Information Centre

Directory - Comprehensive list of the groups concerning the deaf community:

Information: Data and Statistics

Definitions

Audiological Deaf

Cultural Deaf

History

Deaf Community Groups

The Online Resource

Advice Centre Independent Living Products Library Parents Support Kit-tool Funding Source Legislation and Policies

The Education Centre

Advocacy Literacy

Sign Language

Social Networking

Blog Vlog Ireland

Of course we all expect to learn a lot at a DrupalCon, but these sessions are specifically about training for Drupal, or about learning Drupal. These might be of particular interest to those who are trainers or developing Drupal learning materials; or provide training services and documentation for clients.

If you're attending, and you're interested- please vote for these sessions. If you can't attend, but would like to see the outcomes from these sessions (videos etc), please promote and blog about the sessions you think would be useful, or login and leave feedback on the submissions. Hopefully it will help session organisers see the potential benefit for Drupal adoption in these sessions.

Thanks!

Building a Drupal community of practice by Barry Madore
Drupal thrives when it is supported by robust communities of both Drupal users and developers. To ignite these communities we need to provide opportunities for people to learn about Drupal and how it can help them. To sustain these communities we need to provide support and opportunities for growth.

Communicating Drupal visually by Heather James- that's me!
We'll review guidelines for designing visuals for learning. Then we'll create visual representations of fundamental concepts of Drupal. Session goal: The goal of this session is to create informative visuals to assist in Drupal adoption. Introduction: There is a presentation renaissance happening, and people are leaving the old tired bullet points behind. But there is a lack of useful visuals for Drupal. If you write documentation for your modules; if you present proposals to potential clients; if you deliver training, you find you need compelling visuals for your ideas.

Creating End-User Training Programs that Stick by Steve Kessler
In this session we will explore what goes into creating end-user documentation that will increase ROI and lower total cost of ownership.

Designing an Open-Source Internet Curriculum with Drupal Gardens: Sharing our Dominican Republic Pilot Program experience by Claudina Sarahe
une 2010 we took a bold leap as a new company and decided to spend part our summer developing an Open-Source Internet Curriculum. We partnered with COSOLA-MACILE, a non-profit organization focused on K-12 education in less advantaged communities... In this session, we'll talk about the entire process of planning, fundraising, developing and executing the Pilot Program; the challenges and successes we faced and our plans for future of the curriculum.

Learn from the Worst by Jody Lynn
Drupal's flexibility allows endless possibilities to mangle sites. The Drupal "Clean Up and Rescue" job has become all too common. This unforeseen "additional phase" occurs when a client has to hire a new team to fix what a less experienced team built. By fixing all the worst practices in site architecture and coding that destroy the performance, security, maintainability, stability, and functionality of botched Drupal sites, valuable best practices and "what not to dos" emerge.

Learning Drupal the fun way: Drupal games! by Kristof Van Tomme
“The Drupal way”: a set of behaviours that make you a good community player and that lets you maximize your sites built/kittens killed ratio is one of those things that a lot of people only learn to appreciate the hard way. In this session you’ll play a game that teaches you some of these values, cause some messages will only stick if you've experienced them.

Teaching Drupal by Diana Montalion Dupuis
You know how to use Drupal. You know how to write code, build a theme, and SEO a site. But do you know how to teach others to use Drupal? For every site we create there are clients who must use it, many don't know a node from a block. After this session, you will be able to introduce clients to Drupal without freaking them out.

Drupal Dojo

just heard that the guys in cork are officially launching the new irish (island of ireland) postcode system in july.

http://www.loc8code.com/launch

not sure if an post/royal mail are signed up...but apparently couriers/businesses are already using it.

Ireland

I've got several Ubercart sites using Paypal as their sole means of taking CC's. Now I'm doing one for a retailer who already has a CC/Laser machine and I'm wondering are there modules to connect Ubercart with any of the Irish credit card/laser processing companies, or does anyone have any experience with CC & Laser processing in Ireland with Ubercart I'd really appreciate a few pointers.
Thanks
Mike
Indytech - Co Wicklow

Ireland

Advice NI invites proposals for a rights-based website, database and CMS aimed at older people and those who work with them in Northern Ireland.

Any proposal should be based on the requirements we have highlighted within our ‘Invitation to Tender’ document (attached).

Advice NI is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to develop an independent advice sector that provides the best possible advice to those who need it most. Our contact details are below and you can visit our website at http://www.adviceni.net/.

The project has a budget of £20,000 and the timescale from proposal to completion is detailed below:

• Friday 16th July 2010 – Deadline for receipt of tender
• Monday 19th July 2010 - Advice NI to conduct preliminary evaluation of tenders
• Friday 23rd July 2010 - Advice NI to notify companies of place on short list
• August 2nd – 6th - Presentations made by short-listed companies
• Wednesday August 11th - Advice NI to notify successful company
• Mid August - Start-up meeting for successful company
• Friday 19th November – Working model completed in time for usability testing (by Advice NI)
• Friday 11th February 2011 – Website ready for final testing and including recommendations from the usability report written by Advice NI
• Monday March 14th 2011 – Website goes live

You can find more details about the project’s scope and how you are to respond to this proposal within our ‘Invitation to Tender’. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Ciarán

Advice NI
1 Rushfield Avenue
Belfast BT7 3FP
N. Ireland

T: +44 (0)28 9064 5919
F: +44 (0)28 9049 2313
W: www.adviceni.net
E: ciaran@adviceni.net

Blog: www.bloggingiii.com

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New Startup Drupal Developer Employment type:  Contract Telecommute:  Not allowed

I am looking for a drupal developer with loads of experience in Dublin to finish, change and develop modules for a drupal-based web application which is also an innovative product in mobile web domain.

No offers of remote/telecommute work please.

Ireland

I'm starting to get a little annoyed by the sheer volume of email spam coming from Drupal Groups :(
I really don't mind getting told when there's a new thread, or if there's been a response to a thread I'm already actively following, but the constant stream of chatter is doing my head in at this stage.

Is it possible to trim this down? Am I blind? I've not been able to find anywhere that will let me alter notifications of this type.

throws toys out of cot
Daniel :)

Ireland

We have a lot of people to thank.
You know who you are.
But just in case.
http://www.drupalwest.com/news/2010/05/17/thank-you

Ireland

Hello,

been thinking about how some people are hoping to get to Ballyvaughan this Friday, Saturday or Sunday. If anyone is driving with space in their car for a passanger or two, it would be great if they posted where they are coming from, where they think they'll pass through and at what time they're planning to depart for Ballyvaughan.

There's a few people coming from Galway, that might have to resort to the bus to Ballyvaughan, meaning they'll possibly miss the morning sessions. One idea is if there are a good few coming from Dublin, there could be a rendezvous in either Athenry, Oranmore or Kilcolgan. Similarly, it might be possible to arrange to meet up to share lifts in either Limerick or Ennis?

If at all possible we're recommending people make it down for the Friday night, so we can get going Saturday morning. If you do get in on Friday night, we're thinking of having a pizza in L'Archo's and a drink after in O'Loughlinn's.

Looking forward to see you there and huge thanks to anyone that can make space for a fellow Drupaller in their car, van, bus or bicycle :-)

Ireland

I have a VPS site running Virtuzzo with Blacknight. Unlike Alan who also had VPS problems with Blacknight and on a similar spec-ed machine, the server isn't grinding to a halt and the server load rarely goes above 2 or 3. The site is going live this week but the performance is very poor, and no matter what I try I can't seem to improve things much.

First thing I did was to remove all the unnecessary services installed (i.e. the mailserver, spamd) which saw an immediate improvement in the performance of the site. APC is installed, as is Memcache (5 daemons) which is configured with the cache router module. And for good measure I have Boost enabled too. Using APC's reporting tools, I can see I'm getting a 90% (or higher) hit rate on its cache. I can't entirely make sense of the memcache reports however.

I ran benchmarks on the site using ab (ab -c4 -n100). Before installing memcache and boost, I was getting 10 requests per second served (up from 2 with no caching at all). With memcache enabled this went up to 16, and with boost too, this is now 18 for anonymous users. There were improvements each time, but fairly slight.

From looking at the breakdown of the percentages ab gives, the site takes on average 29 seconds to serve 2% of the requests, with the rest all being 1 second or less. I'm presuming that the major decrease is due to caching, but I can't figure out why there is such a high delay for that 2%.

This is more noticeable as a logged in user however, where I reckon at least 30% of the requests take upwards of 15 seconds. Since this site isn't just for anonymous users, it's something I can't very well ignore. Using the devel module I logged the query time. For my test page, a panel page containing about 10 blocks (created via 'add block') and no views and not much else, it has an execution time of 5463ms, with 94 queries taking 1187ms. A good 20 to 30 of the queries are taking between 11ms and 60ms to complete. This makes me think that mysql, or perhaps a rogue module, are to blame.

For example, drupal_lookup_path() took 53ms to do the query: SELECT src FROM url_alias WHERE dst = 'home' AND language IN('en', '') ORDER BY language DESC, pid DESC That's exceptionally high IMO. The same query run at the mysql prompt takes just 0.019ms to run.

I'm really at a loss at where to go from here. I'm thinking mysql might be to blame, but the tuning-primer.sh script turns up nothing of interest, and it is fine at the mysql prompt. My only other thought is that it might be a rogue module, but what? I've disabled all modules not in use, leaving 140 enabled.

Any thoughts, ideas or advice?

Ireland

Hi all,
I have one session ready to go for drupalcamp next weekend,
but I'd be happy to do another.

Is there any specific topic people would like to hear about?
And at what level, eg Beginner/ Intermediate /Advanced

Let me have your suggestions - and I'll see what I can do.
Maybe somebody else might be inspired by the suggestions, and take one [or more] on.

Later
Alan

Ireland

Myself and a couple of colleagues are trying to get there, and right now it looks like the bus for us. If anyone has space in their car for 1 or more, please let us know! We will pay for gas, a pint, etc :)

Thanks,
Lin

Ireland

Apologies for the poor title as thumbnail view isn't exactly accurate. I am looking for a module, cck field, widget or other method that would let me select a particular portion of an image to be used as a portioned size image in a view2 node content type.

I would like to select an interesting portion of an image sized about 800x600 or maybe smaller instead of trying to proportionally scale & crop a larger uploaded image (1024x768) which would be part of a node with a short description and other fields

I tried to attacha demo image but the spam filter was triggered so removed it

Anyone know a way of doing this in drupal short of uploading 2 images (original & portioned) per node?

Ireland

Hi,

Some of you may have seen us give a presentation at ossbarcamp
over the weekend. We're in the process of building a website which will
centralise the rather fragmented opensource community in Ireland.
Basically it'll be a one stop site for all opensource events in
ireland along with bios of the groups involved and their members if
they like.

Of course, this is meant to be a site built by the community for the
community so your input is greatly appreciated if we're to pull this
off.

Currently we're taking comments on our site as well as on freenode irc
in #opensourceireland. Feel free to idle in our channel.

Best Regards,

Ken

Ireland

Start:  2010-05-15 (All day) - 2010-05-16 (All day) Europe/Dublin Drupalcamp or Regional Summit Organizers:  conorc Sile

Ballyvaughan is location for next DrupalCamp in Ireland

Beginners and experienced Drupal web developers welcome at this free conference.

DrupalCamp Ballyvaughan is taking place 15th & 16th May 2010 in the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan in the West of Ireland.
Set in a small village in a beautiful location, we're looking forward to welcoming Drupalers from Ireland and beyond.

Places are limited, but still available if you signup at http://www.drupalwest.com/

Really looking forward to seeing you there :-)

Conor

Ireland