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Drupal Ingredients for your Website Dish, or Modules You Should Use on Every Site - Drupalcon Paris

Posted Wed, 2009-09-09 00:18 by matthew

Greg Knaddison (Greggles), Ben Jeavons (Coltrane) and Brad Bowman (beeradb) gave a session on modules you might consider using when you build a Drupal site. This was kind of the followup to the session at Drupalcamp Colorado. The first set of videos can be seen on the Camp post - and I had a tripod there so the video is quite a bit more steady - but the presentation in Paris was a little different.

Posted below are the videos from that presentation. I hope they are informative.

Part I

Dries' Keynote Drupalcon Paris

Posted Thu, 2009-09-03 01:39 by matthew

Here are the shaky videos I took yesterday from Dries' "State of Drupal" keynote. Most are on YouTube - one ended up on BlipTV because it ended up being 17 seconds longer than the 10 minute mark.

I hope you enjoy them!

Keynote 1

Keynote 2

Keynote 3

Keynote 4

Keynote 5

Keynote 6

Keynote 7

Pre-Drupalcon T-2 days

Posted Mon, 2009-08-31 00:30 by matthew
The past two days have been very long ones. Saturday morning I got up at about 6 am getting my last plans in place for travel from Denver to Paris for Drupalcon. I arrived at the airport about an hour earlier than I really needed to, but due to checking a bag and making sure that the name on my passport was the same on my ticket, that extra time was most welcome. I flew to Charlotte NC and then from Charlotte onto Paris. Both flights were easy, although I wasn’t able to sleep on either. We arrived in Charles De Gaulle at about 6:00 am on Sunday local time.

Getting Ready for Drupalcon Paris

Posted Thu, 2009-07-30 23:01 by matthew

It seems every 6 months or so I'm writing a post similar to this one. A contingent of us from pingVision will be making the trek over the pond to attend the conference. We have, once again, rented a flat near a metro stop rather than getting hotel rooms.
There are several benefits to this kind of arrangement.

  • It is cheaper per person.
  • Given that we are away from the office for a week, it is helpful that we're able to use the flat as a surrogate office, at least a little bit.
  • We can purchase food from the local market rather than always eating at restaurants.

If you have a group, consider looking for an apartment or flat before finding a hotel. They are good value.

I generally use Vacation Rentals by Owners when looking for a place, but there are other services as well.

Beginners Can Use Drupal Too! A Paris Proposal

Posted Tue, 2009-06-30 20:02 by matthew

I've submitted a proposal to Drupalcon Paris. It is titled Build A Community Site - No Coding Required and is focused on new-comers to Drupal. When a person is looking to create a small community site or blog, there are different options out there ranging from Wordpress, to Joomla!, to Blogger, to Drupal.

When a new user approaches Drupal, there is often a sense that the software is overwhelming. In truth, when you break Drupal down, much of it is fairly simple and straight forward to develop a basic site.