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Command Line Basics: Handy shortcuts

Make life a little nicer on the command line

This video covers some handy tips for reusing previously run commands and moving around through a line of text in the command line interface. These shortcuts make working on the command line much faster and nicer. Trying to remember all of these is not easy to do until you've used them for a while, so we also have a handy-dandy cheat sheet which you can download and refer to whenever you are in command line ninja mode.

Podcast 86: Drupal.org Redesign and Git Migration

Neil Drumm and Sam Boyer join Lullabot's Angie Byron and Jeff Robbins to discuss recent Drupal Association initiatives. Neil discusses his work leading the Drupal.org redesign effort and Sam discusses plans to migrate the Drupal code repository from CVS to Git.

FAPI/CCK Confusion: 'value' vs '#value'

Angie Byron wrote a nice article on Drupal.org that explains something about how to form_alter CCK fields. At the very end it says:

Drupal Voices 129: Frank Febbraro on Open Publish 2.0

Frank Febbraro is the CTO of Phase2 Technology talks about their Open Publish 2.0 distribution for publishers. He talks a bit about the semantic features through Open Calais, some of the best practices for creating and maintaining a distribution as well as some of the sites like The New Republic

DrupalCamp Atlanta

Lullabot's Jared Ponchot and James Sansbury will be at DrupalCamp Atlanta.

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October 1, 2010 - 11:00pm - October 2, 2010 - 11:00pm

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First weekend in October

Drupal Voices 130: JP Klein on Drupal at NBC Universal

JP Klein talks about how NBC Universal is using Drupal on the backend to run sites like Telemundo, Bravo and soon SyFy. NBC is using the services module to feed XML into their front-end written in a custom PHP framework.

Drupal Voices 131: Jeff Miccolis on Open Data at the World Bank

Jeff Miccolis of Development Seed talks about the open data site that they created for the World Bank at http://data.worldbank.org.

Drupal Voices 132: Mike Meyers on Examiner.com and Drupal 7

Mike Meyers, the CTO of Examiner.com, talks about migrating their site to Drupal 7 and gives an update since his previous interviews at DrupalCon DC and DrupalCon Paris. He discusses how he is able to attract top Drupal talent by emphasizing contributing back to the community and developing on the cutting edge platform of Drupal 7.

Hang with the 'bots at Portland Drupal Meetup

The Lullabot team will be in Portland August 2nd through the 6th teaching a week of Drupal workshops at the Hotel Monaco. We've got a great space reserved and some out-of-town workshop attendees who would love to meet the great Portland Drupal community. So, as we usually do when we're in town, we're organizing a Drupal Meetup on Tuesday, August 3rd! We'll have a cash bar, snacks, and a video projector and sound system. It's free and open to all, so come out and meet the 'bots and the workshop attendees.

Assembling Pages with Drupal

Blocks vs. Context vs. Panels

As with many facets of Drupal, and coding in general, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task. A good exmple of this was with the recent additions to the Lullabot team. The expanded team brought together three skilled developers and an amazing designer each with their own methods of site building.