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Jan 22nd: jQuery & John Resig
Hope you are all enjoying the break! We have our January meeting lined up, here are the details. Developers among us will be particularly interested, but by no means will you need to be one to enjoy this presentation. Come see what jQuery can do, and if you are using it on your site feel free to chime in! Date: January 22nd, 2009 Time: Noon to 1pm Location: Building N42 Demo Center, 211 Mass Ave Topic: jQuery: Comprehensive DOM, Event, Animation, and Ajax JavaScript Library. Presenter: John Resig, Creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. Author, Secrets of the Javascript Ninja... [read more]
Webpub Potluck: TechTV Upgrade
Hi webpubbers! Our first potluck is coming up on December 18th. Our guest will be my good pal Kris Brewer from MIT TechTV. Kris will give us the low down on all the upgrades they’ve done and the down low on future enhancements. He’ll take us through some of the new bells and whistles and take down your wish list items to bring back to their developers. Topic: MIT TechTV upgrade Date: Thursday, December 18 Time: Noon to 1pm Where: N42 Demo Center Whether or not you choose to bring a dish is up to you – but if you should HAPPEN to have an irresistible urge to bake brownies, I will... [read more]
Fav Drupal Modules
From our meeting last week, folks listed the following as their favorite Drupal modules. Keep in mind that if you have alot of modules enabled, it could slow down the performance of your site. Shibboleth Authentication – works with MIT Touchstone for certificate login – WOOT!! Content Construction Kit Views Organic Groups FCKEditor – not what you think it stands for, its the creator’s initials… TinyMCE FileField Admin Menu Lightbox2 Custom breadcrumbs Captcha plus Recaptcha Webform Voting API Fivestar voting widget Content Profile [read more]
MIT Drupal group & sites
Hi folks - Since we met last week, an MIT Drupal group has started up. If you create a Drupal.org account you can join this group and can get emails sent to you automatically whenever anyone posts a topic. There’s one post in particular that was started to get a list going of all the Drupal sites at MIT that are using Drupal. You can edit the page and add yours once you’ve joined. However if you don’t want to join, I’ve changed the webpub@mit.edu list so that any webpub member can send emails to it. Feel free to send your Drupal, web design, development or production questions... [read more]
Drupal Video – borrow me!
Hi webpubbers, IS&T bought a copy of Lullabot’s “Understanding Drupal” video, and we can loan it out to webpub or other MIT Commnity members. Here’s what I came up with for how to manage the loan of it – think of it as our own little grassroots lending library… 1. Go to the comments section of this post 2. Add your name and where the movie should be delivered to. 3. Watch the movie (keep it for a week or less to be fair) 4. Go back to this post to see who gets the movie after you 5. Send it to them via interoffice mail 6. Delete your comment from the post... [read more]
