Libraries

Thought I'd share out slides from a lightning talk I gave at code4lib 2014.

http://www.slideshare.net/cdmorris22/drupal-git-and-sanity

Any feedback is welcome.

Run a couple of internal Drupal sites and work with numerous vendors and in-house teams on the main public website, database/e-resource offerings, and related systems like EZproxy. Find details through the library's Current Job Openings page:

http://sonomalibrary.org/jobs/scl/open

Hi there,

PPLD.org is upgrading from D6 to D7 using a clean D7 instance and migrating data either via Migrate module, or via Feeds somehow. Here’s what is stumping me:

Over the last year, we've worked with UCLA Library and Indiana University Library to design their Library websites. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot. yeah

One of the more challenging aspects was designing for their multiple locations. I'd love to hear from folks what challenges you've faced in designing for locations and how you solved them. I wrote a (long) blog post about the issues we faced in designing for location ... I'll summarize it all here for you.

Hey there!

I hope everyone has been enjoying the seemingly slow transition into summer weather here in New England.

I wanted to let everyone know that we'll be holding our Drupal 7 Layout and Theming workshop later this month at our Waltham, MA headquarters on June 26 and 27.

This two day workshop will provide you with the following skills by the time you leave:
- Create custom layouts for landing pages on your site
- Make content appear dynamically based on where you are in the site structure
- Change the look of sections on your site
- Create a custom theme in Drupal

Hey there everyone,

I wanted to put out a message saying we're taking last calls for seats in our Drupal Module Development workshop taking place next week.

This workshop is a two-day event, and takes place at our Waltham, MA offices. The course will run from 9:30AM to 5:00PM on May 29 and 30.

As always, please feel free to ask me any questions by emailing me at ashenette@isovera.com. Additional information can be found at https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-module-development-5.

Hey there everyone,

I would like to let you know that Isovera will be hosting our Drupal Module Development workshop on May 29th and 30th. The workshop will be held from 9:30am until 5:00pm on both days.

By the end of the training you will be able to:
- Understand Drupal's hook system and development architecture
- Learn about the construction of 90% of Drupal modules
- Know how to develop simple to complex modules
- Know how to insert and extract data using Drupal's core database abstraction layer
- Be able to responsibly modify contributed modules using patches

Hey everybody,

I'll be doing a free, full-day, in-person training in Gainesville, Florida exclusively for Florida Librarians on Thursday, May 15, 2014.

The full name of the workshop is "Getting Your Stuff Into Drupal: Basics of Content Migration". It's going to be a full day of learning how to move content into Drupal in an automated manner. More details on the topic can be found here: http://drupaleasy.com/content/getting-stuff-drupal-basics-content-migration

Hey there,

Please join Isovera for our Drupal 7 in a Day workshop! We'll be holding this training event on April 25th from 9:30am until 5:00pm.

Due to the nature of this course, it tends to be one of our most popular, so please make sure to register sooner than later if you'd like to reserve a seat.

If you're registering more than one person from your organization, please let me know, as we do offer group discounts. As always, please feel free to email me at ashenette@isovera.com for any questions you may have.

Register here: https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-7-day-5

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to ask a general question of the group regarding digital signatures.

A digital signature in the truest sense links a unique document and it's contents to the "signature" of the person signing it, and the combination of the two constitutes the digital signature.

What I'm trying to find out is if anyone has done something similar to this:

Hey there,

Final reminder, I promise.

There's still a few seats open for our Layout and Theming workshop taking place Thursday and Friday (March 27 and 28).

If this is something you'd like to learn more about, please email me at ashenette@isovera.com or visit https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-7-layout-and-theming-5. As always, I will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Please remember to mention if you're registering more than one person, as we do offer group discounts.

Thanks again, and have a wonderful weekend!

Aaron S.

Hey there everyone,

I am just sending out a friendly reminder that Isovera will be holding our Layout and Theming workshop on the 27th and 28th of March. This is a two day workshop at our Waltham, MA headquarters.

If you'd like to register, please visit https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-7-layout-and-theming-5, or contact me directly at ashenette@isovera.com

As always, please feel free to email me for any questions you may have.

Thanks!

Aaron S.

Hey there everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that Isovera will be holding our Drupal Module Development workshop later this month. The dates are Thursday, February 27th and Friday the 28th. The workshop will be held from 9:30AM until 5:00PM on both days. We're about to shut down registration, so please contact me if you're interested.

Next Meeting:

We will resume on February 25th at 6:30pm. Our speaker will be Nathan Collins talking about what "git" is, and how to use it for tracking changes in files, modules, themes, or anything else you may want to track. Go to http://github.com to create a tracking account there. Finally, the "git" software can be accessed at http://git-scm.com/.

Module of the Month

Our module of the month will continue with the Views Series by looking at some useful additional views modules including views_calc and calendar.

Hey there everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that Isovera will be holding our Drupal Module Development workshop later this month. The dates are Thursday, February 27th and Friday the 28th. The workshop will be held from 9:30AM until 5:00PM on both days.

If you'd like more information, or would like to register, please visit: https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-module-development-4 or contact me directly at ashenette@isovera.com. Be sure to ask about group discounts if you're interested in registering more than one person.

Hey there everyone!

I wanted to send out a reminder that Isovera will be hosting a Drupal 7 in a Day workshop on January 31st, 2014.

What better way to start 2014 than to brush up on Drupal 7 basics, or to learn them for the first time!

For more information, please visit https://isovera.com/event/training/drupal-7-day-4 or email me directly at ashenette@isovera.com.

Have a wonderful New Years!

Aaron Shenette

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else was looking at online badges for their summer reading sites.

Here is an example of the idea (in WordPress)

http://teensummerchallenge.org/

And if you are looking at this idea how are you going about it, ie hiring a company or building it in house. I would also be curious about the modules are you using?

I know that BiblioCommons has something like this but I am not looking at that option at this time.

Thanks in advance for the information,

Sharon Grant
Digital Branch Manager
Kitsap Regional Library
http://www.krl.org

At Code4Lib Vancouver, talking about using ILS's for lending tools vs. building a special purpose site for it, and the subject of Drupal came up (of course). Has anyone built a tool-lending Drupal distro for tool lending cooperatives that don't want to go as far as to use a full ILS for that purpose?

Hey there everyone,

I wanted to send out a reminder that we still have some seats open in our popular Drupal Module Development workshop being held November 21st and 22nd.

By the end of the training you will be able to:
-Understand Drupal's hook system and development architecture
-Learn about the construction of 90% of Drupal modules
-Know how to develop simple to complex modules
-Know how to insert and extract data using Drupal's core database abstraction layer
-Be able to responsibly modify contributed modules using patches

Cheers everyone.

EBSCO provides a Drupal module that will display results from EBSCO on a custom page http://mysite/ebsco/results.

There is a template preprocess function for the page, and a tpl.php file for the page.

Instead of displaying the page, I want to load the results into a custom block. I'm using the API call of
drupal_form_submit('my_form_name', $form_state) to make the submit call. I set the $form_state['variables'] as below before making the call:

// set $form_state array values
$form_state = array();
$form_state['values']['lookfor'] = $search;