Darren Mothersele

Another great Drupal London event last night!

Chris (matason on Drupal.org) gave a great presentation of the new Drupal 7 Workbench module. It was great to see it in action and one I can see using myself a lot in the future. John and Rob demonstrated their Survey Builder module, a new backend for the excellent Form Builder tool. This looks like it has a lot of potential, so one to keep an eye on for the future I think. Vamory gave a really useful guide to making multi-step forms in FAPI, and then I got to talk about one of my pet favourite subjects, jQuery!

I showed the Active Tags module, and demonstrated adding some of the jQuery UI widgets to a Drupal 7 site, then showed how to build up a more complex interaction by adding Drag and Drop functionality to a couple of Drupal Views, then hooking up a Rules backend linked together by Page Manager. In case you missed it, or wanted more details, read on...

There's one last Drupal London event before the end of the year. It's being held at Cap Gemini and more details are here on the Event Brite page. The meeting will be about Drupal Forms, and I will be presenting on the using jQuery and jQuery UI with Drupal Forms. I'll will post up the slides in advance, and I think the presentations will be streamed online. The Drupal meetups are always a lot of fun and a good place to meet other Drupal developers and users. See you there!

The next Drupal Drop-in event has been announced on the London Drupal Community Eventbrite page. Register quickly, as places usually fill up quickly. I will be doing a demo of my Active Tags module and showing some advanced Views configuration with Taxonomy Views integration.

This Friday, 13th Aug, I will be presenting a case study at Drupal Focus on Publishers. If you are interested in hearing more about the use of Drupal in publishing then come along to this free event. I will be presenting a case study and talking about content aggregation, personalisation, and creating sites with premium subscriber-only content.

Here's my Drupalcon Szeged review. Not a full account of what I got up to during the week but some of the highlights of the conference. The Szeged2008 website now has slides and videos, with more being uploaded as they are transcoded by archive.com so go checkout what you missed or revisit the sessions if you need a reminder. Here's my highlights from the event, in no particular order...

Last night's event at Sun Microsystems office in London was a big success. Congrats to the Drupal UK team for organising. The live hook up with Robert Douglass worked well, and it was good to hear more about recent search developments in Drupal. I presented my little case study on Interoperability with Drupal, in particular producing sales reports in Drupal using External User Authentication and report building. I'll post my Drupal module code for those that asked when I've sufficiently GPL'ed it.

See you at the next Drupal UK event?