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drupal_poster.1.pdf

UKUUG is the UK's Open Systems Group and the Summer Conference is the highlight of our year. It brings together Free Libre and Open Source Software developers and users from all over the UK and Europe to share knowledge and discuss the latest trends in Free Software.

I will be running a Drupal workshop on the Friday.

Drupal community for swapping tips and finding people to help you with all your Drupal-related problems.

Here is my presentation on how we are building School of Everything's hosting infrastructure.

Drupal's notifications module is pretty darn useful, but, you need to have some methods for testing it otherwise you will wait days for updates.

One of the simplest little tricks is making sure that you receive an update immediately, just delete your user's entry from the notifications_sent table. This means that you have no history of updates, and the system will think you are due an email.


mysql> delete from notifications_sent where uid = 128499 limit 1;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)


The School of Everything presentation on how we are using Amazon's Cloud is now availble online, along with a few other presenations from the Amazon Startup Sessions.

http://www.slideshare.net/group/the-startup-project-aws

http://www.slideshare.net/tracylaxdal/schoolofeverything-presents-on-aws-presentation

I have always been a bit confused by this one. Why does theme_node have both $page and $teaser as parameters ? Surely, if it's not a page then it is a teaser ? Not quite.


function theme_node($node, $teaser = 0, $page = 0) {
.....


The docs don't quite spell it out clearly, but once you know the difference, you can see what they are saying. However, if you have not quite understood the difference, the docs don't help one bit. Here is my attempt to clarify.

Disclaimer: The worst bit about this lesson is that, as I have written this note, I have realised that what I had planned to be the lesson was incorrect! Anyway, I will post this anyway because I may need to remember all this next time.

Todays Drupal lesson: Keeping things and filters seperate. It's going to apply to any kind of social media site, but this is a little Drupal specific note.

We don't really have a clue, but so far, it looks like it might be ok.