Drupalers:
This month we have Jen Lampton of Jeneration Web Development speaking on her Total Control Admin Dashboard. This is gonna be good. Don't miss it. Here's the skinny:
There are a lot of administrative interfaces in Drupal. Site architects have a hard time finding their way around, but imagine how it must feel for a lowly administrator who only wants to change some of their categories, or review submitted comments.
Have you heard your clients ask you questions like these:
"Where do I go to do that?"
"Is that section under structure or content?"
"Isn't this all configuration?"
If you said yes, then Total Control, is your answer.
This dashboard is not meant to be exactly what your site needs as it is. Instead, it's designed to be a starting-point that will get you 90 percent of the way there in no time flat. To get that last 10 percent, use the power of Views to override what's provided by default, add use the power of Panels to place the panes your administrators need to see on your dashboard.
Though the dashboard itself is handy, the real utility comes from the default page views included with Total Control. Using the Views Bulk Operations module, these pages attempt to replace the admin/content/node page that I've found so limiting for so long. You can perform all the operations that you could historically perform on your new admin/dashboard/content page, but with al the things you've always thought were missing (search, anyone?).
Come see how to make your site's dashboard useful, hear about what's new, and let's talk what's coming soon. Want to make your administrators happy? Give them Total Control, today!
Slides available in advance! http://www.jenlampton.com/sites/default/files/total_control_sac.pdf
Berkeley Drupal Users Group: 6/25 12-1:30pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: Barrows Hall 60 (basement room)
MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map
Comments
Will there be any free food
Will there be any free food or drinks?
BDUG food: Not this time
In the past we've had pizza. My department is unable to fund food. In the past I've invited companies to sponsor food, but honestly the money exchange and the procurement of the actual food was often more than I could handle. I'm totally open to someone bringing in 6-8 pizzas if they let me know in advance and I'll also make a public thank to the food sponsor. (Garbage needs to be removed from the room at the end of the meeting.)
Tentative for July: Zen 5, Sass, and Compass
Also we have a good presentation tentatively scheduled for July: Kathleen Lu on Responsive Web Theming with Zen 5, Sass, and Compass. This will be a great followup to John Albin's presentation a couple of months ago.
Awesome, my kids (the ones
Awesome, my kids (the ones that are still left) haven't eaten in days! Responsive Web, Mobil appz, etc are okay tech but will be history in 2 years with the rise of intelligent agents like Siri, Robin, etc.. We need a good presentation on the agent oriented architecture of the future. Before intelligent agents can really be useful, we're going to need a "web of data". And that is where I come in :)
disregard
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