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Dec 23 2008

Drupal upgrade tip: Converting from Event module to CCK Date

If you're upgrading your site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and were previously using the event module, you have probably realized that a lot of the supporting modules that made the event module functional (such as Event Views) have fallen by the wayside. Well, as luck would have it, much (if not all) of the functionality that the event module provides can be re-created using CCK date fields, views and the calendar module. So the only task that remains is to get your existing event content migrated over into usable CCK fields, and then configure your views to display them into a calendar display.

While there are undoubtedly other approaches to achieve this end, this is a relatively quick and painless path to get the features you want up and running.

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Dec 19 2008

by Ben Jeavons

Fields in core

The fields in core sprint is happening, and you can follow it in the Fields in Core group. Check out the emerging Field API specification at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcz939... and the latest public discussion on storage at http://groups.drupal.org/node/17576, table per field or table per type. The functionality of fields is huge for Drupal and future versions of core. Follow along in the fields in core group and participate because it's not something to be taken lightly.

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Dec 16 2008

by Ben Jeavons

DrupalCon DC 09 Sessions

DrupalCon DC is a few months away, but as you know time flies with Drupal, so now is the time to vote for what you want the next DrupalCon to be. With almost 200 sessions proposed you have a lot to choose from!

pingVision has proposed or is part of five sessions:

Data Importation: How to import enterprise level data
Kevin Bridges and John Fiala will talk on bringing legacy content and users into Drupal.

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Dec 12 2008

by Laura

pingVision's Drupal services go Platinum as Acquia Partner

It happened several weeks ago, and the official announcement went out ~~yesterday~~ Wednesday, so I figured it's time to blog it: pingVision is an Acquia Platinum Partner, offering IA/TA, web design, development, deployment, performance tuning and consulting services for sites built using Acquia Drupal^*.

Acquia truly escalated the Drupal world when it came out with its commercially supported distribution of Drupal. Nothing is lost. It's all gain. Because Acquia Drupal is still Drupal, still free, still licensed under the GPL. And it's co-founded by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert, meaning it's not at all likely to go off on its own fork. (Dries not only wouldn't want to, it wouldn't make business sense in the open source ecosystem.)

Check out the community modules included in Acquia Drupal:

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pingVision Joins Acquia Platinum Partner Program

pingVision set to deliver solutions built upon Acquia Drupal^* and the Acquia Network

Andover, MA (PRWEB) December 10, 2008 - December 10, 2008 - Acquia, provider of the commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal social publishing system, today announced that pingVision, the Drupal web developer behind websites such as PopSci.com and Pregnancy.org, has been selected to join the Acquia Partner Program as a Platinum service provider. pingVision has received substantial and sustained recognition for its Drupal technology solutions, and is fully committed and fully equipped to deliver sustainable business growth with Acquia-powered solutions.

"pingVision has a strong reputation for its leading technology solutions and has shown a deep commitment to furthering Acquia's vision. We're excited to have pingVision join the Acquia Partner Program as a platinum member," said Jay Batson, Acquia co-founder and CEO.

pingVision has won awards for design and development of Drupal-powered websites for clients including Bonnier, E.W. Scripps & Co., Stanford University and BlogHer, and is one of the few companies providing turnkey services for enterprise Drupal websites.

Dec 9 2008

by Laura

Drupal Meet-Up & Ad-Hoc DBUG Holiday Happy Mash-up (of sorts)

'Tis the season, and we've almost arrived at the second Wednesday of the month, meaning that this month's Drupal Meetup will be a sort of casual, impromptu holiday affair.
Druplicon Santa
What that means is that we'll have some eggnog and perhaps other celebratory fare to complement the usual pizza and Drupal enthusiasm.

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Dec 5 2008

by Laura

What a difference a couple of years make

Last month marked our 2-year anniversary in our current office — or, rather, one of our current office suites.
Now we're looking at some possible new office spaces where we will make our home next, and that has me looking back at the life lived inside these walls. In a way, it's hard to believe we've been here two years already. Yet it also feels like where we were two years ago was more like a million years ago. Times change.

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Nov 13 2008

by MatthewS

Pregnancy.org Relaunches in Drupal 6

This morning pingVision relaunched Pregnancy.org in Drupal 6. The site was wholly designed and developed by pingVision and included several interesting integrations including some custom tools.

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Nov 10 2008

by Laura

Tips using Eclipse and Drupal, at Wednesday's Meet-Up at pingVision

This Wednesday's Denver/Boulder Drupal Users' Group Meet-Up will have, among other things, a presentation by Al Steffen on working on Drupal using Eclipse, the open source integrated development environment that makes coding -- and specifically coding for Drupal -- so much easier.

Also, Matt Tucker will continue our ad hoc series on things to do with Views by giving a little overview of Draggable Views, which is a module that pretty much does what you'd expect: drag-and-drop ordering of nodes in Views.

But that's just part of the meet-up. As always, the agenda is open.

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Nov 5 2008

by John Fiala

Node Bodies, Teasers, and hook_nodeapi('presave')

Here's something interesting to keep in mind the next time you're getting fancy with your nodes during the hook_nodeapi presave step: Don't forget your teaser.

I was having trouble with a Drupal 6 website I've been working on, where it seemed almost as if the body was duplicating part of itself (or sometimes all of itself) on the edit - it looked fine when you were viewing the node, but editing it caused things to duplicate within the body field. I tried the usual suspects for fixing - I searched for nodeapi calls inside of the custom modules we'd written to find the culprit, and then even just started turning off modules, and the theme, one by one, hoping to find the culprit that way.

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pingVision

Drupal upgrade tip: Converting from Event module to CCK Date

Fields in core

DrupalCon DC 09 Sessions

pingVision's Drupal services go Platinum as Acquia Partner

pingVision Joins Acquia Platinum Partner Program

pingVision set to deliver solutions built upon Acquia Drupal^* and the Acquia Network

Drupal Meet-Up & Ad-Hoc DBUG Holiday Happy Mash-up (of sorts)

What a difference a couple of years make

Pregnancy.org Relaunches in Drupal 6

Tips using Eclipse and Drupal, at Wednesday's Meet-Up at pingVision

Node Bodies, Teasers, and hook_nodeapi('presave')

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