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Springtime is conference season, and this year has been a pretty busy one for us at Palantir. We just got back from Museums and the Web in Indianapolis last week, and it’s already time to start getting ready for next week’s CMS Expo. Fortunately, we don’t have to travel too far this time – it’s being held in Evanston, IL, which is only a few miles from our north Chicago office and also happens to be where a few of us live. CMS Expo is a training and business conference focusing on Drupal, Joomla!, Alfresco and other open source content management products. Along with our friends at Acquia, Palantir will be one of the conference’s sponsors, and a number of us will be presenting sessions as well:
Packt Publishing just released an article of mine (excerpted from my forthcoming book) on their website. The excerpt is from a chapter that I am very excited about because it focuses on a feature that sadly and undeservedly gets lumped into the "unsexy" category: Drupal's amazing translation support.
The article Translations in Drupal 6 JavaScript briefly covers setting up and using the server-side translation system. It also illustrates using that system from within JavaScript. Since the book is on JavaScript, the PHP functions get nothing but a mention in the article.
The article is much shorter than the chapter in the book, and many important topics are only glossed, but I'm always happy to see one of Drupal's unsung heroes (brilliant language support) get front-page coverage.
Want to get a closer look at the new book? Or flip through the Learning Drupal 6 Module Development book? Stop by our booth at DrupalCon, DC. While there, you can pick up our eco-friendly, nearly indestructible reference card. (No trees were harmed in the making of these reference cards -- you've gotta see them.)
This has been an exciting week around here. First, Palantir is hosting its first Chicago Drupal Meetup Group (CDMUG) this Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7pm. Second, my newest book, Drupal 6, JavaScript, and jQuery is on its way to the printers. Third, I'm "celebrating" the completion of the book by presenting at the CDMUG group this week, and Larry (Crell) Garfield will be presenting, too.
The official topic for this meetup is "Advanced Drupal."
I'll be covering some JavaScript topics, including using jQuery and jQuery UI to add glitzy effects. If time permits, I may also give a preview of my new Drupal module, QueryPath, which provides a jQuery-like library (but with other goodies) for PHP developers.
Larry, best known for rewriting the Drupal 7 database layer, is going to be presenting on some amazing new modules that are about to be released. There'll be fun eye candy, but also some serious workhorse tools that will spare you hours of work on your own Drupal sites.
As usual, there will be a wide range of Drupal folks here. Come get to know people in the community. Even if JavaSript isn't your thing, just hanging around with some of the brilliant Drupal minds around here is sure to be beneficial. Oh, and did I mention that there will be food?
RSVP, Please! The meetup is on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7:00pm here at Palantir's offices.
If you are interested in coming, head on over to http://drupal.meetup.com/1/ and register to receive directions.
While all of the "assigned" slots are filled, we are going to make an earnest effort to make room for people on the waitlist. But space will be tight, so make sure you RSVP at the site.
As Linus Torvalds famously remarked, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." What if we combined that kind of code-review mentality with the best of professional publishing practices in order to write better books? This is the idea behind a new program that Packt Publishing is running, and my newest book, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery, is the first book through this new program.
The new book is focused on developing a richer client-side experience using Drupal 6 and the JavaScript libraries included with it (Yup, jQuery is one of those). I've done my best to build a book that will appeal to both themers and module developers. While it is heavy on JavaScript, there's not a lot of PHP. It covers behaviors, JavaScript theming, translations, AJAX technologies, Drupal functions, and lots and lots of jQuery.
But here's the novel part: Rather than going through the normal publishing cycle, Packt has created a new program called RAW (Read as we Write). A RAW book is published chapter by chapter. Soon after I finish writing a chapter, it is posted to the book site where subscribers can download and read it right away. While every chapter is totally complete (including all of the code samples), the book is unedited and unpolished. It's raw.
This has a few huge advantages.