Evolving Web Blog

Planning for DrupalCamp MTL
Posted August 30th, 2010 by Simone Pereira

As October quickly approaches, it’s time to think about DrupalCamp Montreal once again. The chatter on Drupal Groups had been gaining momentum until Andrew Lindsay and Jacques Blier took the initiative to set up a planning session this past Monday, Aug. 23. Eleven people showed up, and the discussion got quickly under way.

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Creating a Template for a Custom Drupal Block
Posted August 3rd, 2010 by Suzanne Kennedy

We often define custom blocks in a site-specific module. Sometimes the markup in these blocks can start building up and we realize that it's time to create a template for the block. This is a good way to keep markup out of the module code. It's also a good way to practise writing cleaner and more themer-friendly modules.

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Our Slides from Drupal Camp NYC 8
Posted July 27th, 2010 by Suzanne Kennedy

Evolving Web had a great time at Drupal Camp NYC last weekend. The camp was a huge success thanks to the excellent turn-out and presentations on exciting topics such as administrative interfaces, Context, and Drupal security. The team of organizers who put the camp together did an amazing job!

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Evolving Web at Drupal Camp NYC 8
Posted July 24th, 2010 by Suzanne Kennedy

This weekend, Evolving Web is down in New York for DrupalCamp NYC 8. The camp has had a great turnout and we're really excited to be here and sponsoring the camp. Evolving Web is presenting at five sessions over the two-day camp.

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CCK Formatters: Creating an Audio Widget from a URL
Posted July 22nd, 2010 by Suzanne Kennedy

CCK formatters are useful for theming content in a sustainable way. Instead of creating piles of template files to format content types, you can create re-usable CCK formatters and select how your fields are formatted using the "Display Fields" tab of a content type.

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My Introduction to Drupal 101
Posted July 15th, 2010 by Simone Pereira

July marked the start of my time as the newest Project Manager at Evolving Web. My first task was to learn as much as possible about Drupal. As a newbie, I couldn’t have asked for a better system to familiarize myself with. I’m not a technical person by nature, so having to learn about web-based programs and languages was a daunting task. But the wealth of information available on Drupal, on everything from installing the program to configuring modules, was reassuring.

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Flattening Content in the Book Module
Posted July 8th, 2010 by Jonathan Pullano

Deep menu trees are not fun to navigate and make for an awkward user interface. We recently faced the challenge of how to simplify the book module's navigation so users wouldn't have to dig down through many levels of navigation.

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Setting up a High-Performance Distributed Drupal in the Cloud
Posted July 8th, 2010 by Jonathan VK

Jeff and I are proposing a session for DrupalCon Copenhagen. At DrupalCon San Francisco, I was struck by how many people had questions about high performance Drupal. Many of them were thinking of moving to the cloud.

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Login from the Command Line with Drush Login Link
Posted June 29th, 2010 by Jonathan Pullano

When starting to develop a new Drupal site, there are a couple of things that you need to do first. You need to log on to your development server, probably done through the command line over SSH), and you need to log on to your site via the browser. My word! Two authentications! Wouldn't it be nice if this dreary, menial task could be accomplished with a spiffy command line tool?

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Theming Views in Drupal with Templates and Preprocess Functions
Posted June 24th, 2010 by Suzanne Kennedy

If you're building a large website in Drupal, you're likely to have a long list of views that you're using. Often, views require some custom configuration to match a given design or to provide the user with additional information. Sometimes you want to add dynamic text above or below the view, such as the number of results, or want to create a dynamic title beyond what views lets you configure through the user interface.

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