kentbye_tech
A room full of Drupal devs eager to start code sprinting, and less than half have Internet connectivity. FAIL!
| Someone mentioned never having seen a 12-year old own an entire room of 200 adults like Dmitri did. It gives him hope for the future. |
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| Some live demos would work a lot better as a highly-edited screencast. It's a tricky problem to emulate iterating settings, but can be done. |
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| KarenS was kind enough to export all of her CCK & Views examples that she's going through in her site recipe: http://tinyurl.com/yp7e7y |
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| I'm on the left hand side of the Drupalcon photo: http://www.flickr.com/photo... -- Dmitri's above the "B" |
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| GHOP student Jimmy Berry aka boombatower did some great work with the Click Heatmaps module & wrote 1/2 of Drupal core's SimpleTests. Rock! |
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| Each js library has it's own unit test suite & it now allows javacript developers to have the upper hand against browsers & their bugs |
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| pingVision has grown to 16 ppl & is growing. They're finding a niche w/ developing for Green websites who are coming to them. |
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| bdragon & the folks at ChicagoTech.org are doing lots of great work with mapping w/ the GMap & location modules. |
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| Whoa. The next jQuery is going to be almost 2x faster & smaller using Xpath selectors. Codename Sizzie coming soon. |
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| jQuery got a grant from Mozilla for full-ARIA support, which allows the javascript layer to communicate to screenreaders for accessibility. |
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| I'm always surprised to see rockstar Drupal-ers using PCs: chx, merlinofchaos, bjaspan, starbow, crell, douggreen and probably more. |
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| Interesting tidbit: Tao Starbow used SimpleTests while developing Drupal's AHAH framework: http://tinyurl.com/34yelc |
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| John Resig's has an interesting live demo style is of typing jQuery stub code into an overly zoomed in Keynote presentation slide. |
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| Simplicity of the APIs over everything else is the biggest key to jQuery's success. More plug-ins to choose from b/c its small & extensible. |
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| Matt's favorite interview questions for a dev: "Have you ever used hook_form_alter()? And "Have you ever created a template.php.tpl file?" |
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| Matt's finished his slides early and is doing a heck of job facilitating a discussion re: building community w/ ppl sharing best practices. |
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| Dries, starbow & quicksketch & others were all rockin' the modal dialogs in the last BoF. Soon no more loosing form data w/o saving it first |
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| All of the real work at Drupalcon is happening in the BoF sessions. Modal Pop-ups, Semantic RDF, Knight Foundation & Drupal Pipes. Intense. |
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| Just talking w/ @dmitrig01 who is analyzing all of Drupal's functions w/ PHP's tokenizer attempting to automate writing code for unit tests. |
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