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DrupalCon San Francisco Schedule

kentbye — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:02:53 -0700

The preliminary DrupalCon San Francisco session schedule was released yesterday, and I wanted to get an overview of all of the sessions and so I created the following graphic:

As with every year, the schedule is bound to change a bit between now and the actual DrupalCon as there are still some conflicts and sessions to be confirmed, but this will at least start to give you an idea of some of the sessions that will be happening.

For more details on these, then be sure to check out the full schedule here.

Which Simpsons character best represents the Drupal community?

angie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:37 -0800

In preparation for the Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities panel at SXSW, which I'll be speaking at on Saturday, I posed the following question on Twitter and in #drupal:

Which Simpsons character best represents the #Drupal community and why?

And the winner, in terms of number of responses, was...

Lisa Simpson

Thinks she has all the answers to save the world but is so pathetically naive she never will. Yet you love her anyway. - TheRealCrell
Underestimated, Intelligent, resourceful. With a wonderful singing voice. - bear_feet
She is open minded and usually diplomatic :) - JCL324
Logical, but not so popular. - DaftNinja

And here were the others. Feel free to comment too with your own. :)

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Job Post: Lullabot Seeks Experienced Project Manager

jeff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:09:02 -0800

Lullabot is looking for an experienced project manager. Responsibilities include: managing scope, deliverables, schedules, and team resources for Lullabot client and internal projects. Daily tasks would include leading daily 15 minute check-in calls for each project, tending the ticket queue and managing task lists, communicating (email/phone) with clients, and basically keeping projects on track and moving forward. Lullabot is a distributed company without a central office, so like all Lullabot jobs, this is a telecommuting position and may involve travel.

Additional responsibilities include helping to write and assemble new project proposals and statements of work, though we tend to focus on bigger projects and don't take on too many projects at once. You'd be responsible for estimating and staffing projects, meeting with clients, pursuing and growing development partnerships, and coordinating the delivery of various projects.

If this sounds like a lot, it is. But Lullabot is a very collaborative company so you won't be working in isolation. You'll be working with a team of highly experienced Drupal consultants and developers with excellent communication skills and a passion for their work.

Ideal candidates should:

have 2 years or more of experience managing large web projects
be generally familiar with the Drupal platform
be a great communicator with good writing skills
be comfortable managing and organizing remote virtual teams
be based in the U.S.
have a sense of humor

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Rapid Waters Team Joins Lullabot

jeff — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:32:07 -0800

Today we're proud to announce that the team at Rapid Waters Development will be joining Lullabot. Jerad Bitner and David Burns founded Rapid Waters, a Drupal-focused development company, in 2009 after years of development experience with Sony Music, MothersClick, and Lifetime Television. Rapid Waters recently helped Lullabot launch IgniteShow.com for O'Reilly Media.

Since we began in 2006, Lullabot has been as a small consulting and education company focused on high-level technical planning and architecture, developer training and mentorship, and server performance tuning. As Lullabot takes on more projects like Buzzr and the thriving Lullabot Store, we find ourselves doing more development on both client and Lullabot internal projects.

This acquisition marks the beginning of a new development division at Lullabot. These new dedicated development resources will allow us to provide more complete Drupal solutions. We're still a small company concentrating on high-end projects, and our focus will continue as a consulting and education company, however now we're able offer better hand-in-hand development resources for our clients.

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Drupal Powers Video Portal For O'Reilly Media

jeff — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:07:56 -0800

Lullabot is proud to announce the launch of its latest project: IgniteShow.com, an archive of videos from Ignite events around the globe. The site, produced for O'Reilly Media, features a curated archive of Ignite's signature 5-minute videos as well as listings of upcoming events, news, cities with established Ignite presence, and information on how to get involved. Additionally, the site features support for live video streaming of events.

Popular videos are featured on the home page and the archive can be searched and sorted by location, event, popularity, chronology, or video tags. Each city has its own landing page on the site which is administered by volunteers. These landing pages (such as http://igniteshow.com/seattle) provide a city-specific archive of videos with city-specific featured videos, popular videos, and chronological archive - contolled by the volunteer administrators. Cities may also feature their own sponsors separate from those elsewhere on the site.

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Lullabot Drupalcon proposals - vote now!

angie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:05:15 -0800

Drupalcon San Francisco sessions are now open for open for voting. Here are the sessions proposed by the Lullabots. Come and vote for them! Lullabot loves you, you know you love us, too! ;)

How Drupal Works: An Architectural Overview: Whether you're an architect overseeing a Drupal project, a developer coming to the Drupal world after working with other frameworks, or an existing Drupal developer looking to get the big picture, Jeff Eaton's session will help put you on the right track.
Jeff Eaton's Token for Fun and Profit session will also lead you through the new, advanced Token API in Drupal 7 core.
Lullabot Case Study: Liza Kindred, Lullabot's Business Director, shares some tips and tricks on being a successful business in the Drupal ecosphere.
Liza is also listed as a co-presenter on the Best Practices For Managing a Drupal Firm session, a panel discussion on what it takes to run a successful Drupal agency.
Drupal 7: What you need to know: Angela Byron, the Drupal 7 co-maintainer, will give an overview of the new, cool features in Drupal 7 and how to prepare for its imminent arrival.
Angela is also listed as a co-presenter at The exodus: leading Drupal out of CVS. Learn more about Drupal.org's migration from CVS to Git, and how it will affect you!
Reference This!: Karen Stevenson, co-maintainer of the amazing CCK module, will discuss some of the 50 or so nodereference modules and show off advanced tips and tricks for working with nodereference and userreference.
Be a Drupal Docs Hero in 15 minutes: Addison Berry, Drupal documentation team lead, will walk through easy, quick tasks you can do in 15 minutes or less to contribute to the Drupal project.

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IE iFrame Insanity

KarenS — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:52:57 -0800

After I spent THREE HOURS trying to figure out why IE insists on rendering a white background for an empty iframe, Nate pointed this little gem out to me.

IE has default values for iframes. Yes they do. And the default is to put an opaque background and an inset border on iframes that will ignore any attempt you make to change the iframe background color or border using css. So if you put 'background-color:transparent' into your css for the iframe element it will have no effect. That's right IT WILL IGNORE YOUR CSS!

To fix it you have to do this:

<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameBorder="0"></iframe>

See the documentation for this stupid behavior here

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533072%28VS.85%29.aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533770%28VS.85%29.aspx

Using the VI Editor

KarenS — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:48:01 -0800

I'm a relatively recent Mac convert and I still stumble a bit with some command line tricks. In particular, when I need to use VI to edit things I always have to look up the commands to edit and save my text.

So here is my cheat sheet, in a public place that is easy to find :-)

Type vi FILENAME to use the vim editor to alter this file.
Navigate to the line that needs to be changed or added and make your changes.
Apparently the exact keys that control navigation vary. On my computer, the following worked:
- Down - the enter key
- Right/Left - left/right cursors
- Delete a letter - the 'x' key
- Insert letters - the 'i' key
When finished editing, do the following: ESC :wq!

That's my short and sweet blog for the day.

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Drupal Wins GRAMMY.com

jeff — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:40:44 -0800

Lullabot is proud to announce that GRAMMY.com, the official site of the GRAMMY Awards, is now a Drupal site. The GRAMMY Awards is the music business' largest and most prestigious awards ceremony. This year's telecast, happening January 31st, will be the 52nd annual awards ceremony held by the The Recording Academy.

GRAMMY.com has run on several platforms over the years, but The Recording Academy decided to move to Drupal for its flexibility, speedy build-out, scalability, and performance under pressure. The website sees a huge traffic spike around the telecast and the Academy needed a content management system which could be both resource efficient throughout the year and provide high-performance and high-availability around the dates of the awards ceremony.

Lullabot, whose portfolio includes Lifetime Television, FastCompany.com, and the Sony Music artist platform (running over 100 Sony artist websites), brought in developers from Santex to help get the site built in about eight weeks. The site features extensive photo and video galleries, a live video feed, blogs and news, and of course listings of all the nominees. The site also features integration with Twitter and the GRAMMYs' active Facebook community. The project was assembled using mostly existing free add-on modules from Drupal's vast contributions repository.

In the past, a website like this would have cost millions of dollars to build. But Drupal allowed The Recording Academy to assemble the site quickly at a fraction of the cost.

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Lullabot is looking for Drupal teachers

liza — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:47:24 -0800

Are you a Drupal expert? Are you excited to travel to exotic locations, meet interesting people, and share your knowledge with them?

Lullabot is looking for part-time freelance Drupal teachers. If you've got a flexible schedule and can travel for as much as a week every month or two, this could be a great opportunity.

You should:

be a Drupal expert
have great communication skills and a sense of humour
have teaching experience ('Camps, 'Cons, classes... you name it)
be able to commit to doing a certain number of teaching days each quarter
be flexible and reliable

We will:

train you as a Lullabot teacher
provide the training curriculum and equipment
pair you with experienced Lullabot teachers (you won't need to go out on your own right away)
send you around the world delivering fun Drupal training to smart people
work with your schedule
pay you for your time and cover your travel expenses

Lullabot has been running public and private Drupal workshops, seminars, and events for the past four years. We've run over one-hundred training events, and trained thousands of Drupal developers internationally. We'd like to share our experience with a few new teachers and expand our training staff.

Interested? Please send the following:

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