It has to be said that the January Denver Drupal meetup was a far more interesting live television broadcast than the President's State of the Union address. We didn't have nearly as many viewers or inspire a drinking game, but we also did not have any bitter partisan politics characterized by half of the audience applauding random statements while the other half made disapproving facial expressions.
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OpenLayers is a powerful mapping framework that allows you to create beautiful maps in a short amount of time. Recently, we have been working on an OpenLayers map for a client that requested "density circles," or a way to visually show concentration of projects within a region. I remembered Alan Palazzolo mentioning a project called "OpenLayers Plus" during his session at BadCamp back in the fall.
About 6 months ago, I made a game for the Drupal community. I announced it in the local Colorado Drupal community and some other randompeople have somehow found out about it, but it's still pretty small, and I should have extended an invitation to the wider community long ago. Better late then never.
Our schedule for Denver Drupal meetups puts our November meetup two days before American Thanksgiving, a time when many people are out of town or otherwise unable to attend the meetup. Last year we decided not to cancel the meetup, and instead took advantage of the smaller group to do something a little different in November, and we did the first "Denver Drupal Games", a fun site-building competition.
October's Denver Drupal meetup was focused on "DevOps," with a presentation by Ned McClain from Applied Trust. Ned had given a similar presentation at the Boulder meetup last month, and kindly agreed to make the trek to Denver for those of us who missed the first one. Ned started by talking about changing approaches to development, quickly explaining the difference between the traditional "waterfall" approach with bigger release cycles, and the "agile" approach with smaller release cycles.
This weekend seven members of our team we’ll be joining hundreds of Drupal enthusiasts for BADCamp 2011. This fantastic regional event will be held at the UC Berkley campus, boasting keynotes from Drupal’s creator and project lead Dries Buytaert, Lullabot CEO Jeff Robbins and Danese Cooper, Open Source Strategist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Drupal Commerce is a robust, flexible e-commerce platform. Wading through its several pages of configuration options isn't always easy, though. That's why we've put together a cheat-sheet for configuring a clean, simple express checkout with Drupal Commerce.
Extending the subscriptions module can be very useful if you're feeling a little entrapped by its default capabilities. This is something we dealt with while working on a redesign for JAARS.org. We're still working on the project: look forward to a case study, another blog post, and the completed redesign over the next few weeks. But for now…
