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The website of McDonald's Australia is using Drupal. I'm lovin' it! Dries01547170418869654453

demo video of the amazing new in-place-editor for Panels: http://bit.ly/cCzFzG #drupal #welcometothefuture

Amye Scavarda (aka msamye) talks about some of the discussions about Project Management that were happening at DrupalCon San Francisco. She mentions a couple of presentations that she was involved with including The Care and Feeding of Project Managers and YOU SHALL NOT PASS: Managing Expectations and Boundaries of Clients.

Release Date: August 16, 2010 - 1:10am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 8:18 minutes (7.66 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr) Lullabot

This lesson shows how to automatically import content from RSS or Atom feeds with the help of the Feeds module. The process relies on cron to run periodically so that the feed processor can check for new content. The feed processor creates regular Drupal nodes from the items contained in the feed. You can choose to have the imported items published by default or not. Once the items have been imported as nodes you can then create custom paths to those using Pathauto and/or customize the display using the Views module.

Note: Click the 'full screen' icon (to the right of the volume control) in order to watch online at full 1280x720 resolution.

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Robert J. Safuto

Previously I've written about setting up APC and memcached on your desktop (or in my case laptop) using Acquia's handy stack installer (aka "DAMP"). This is another quick post in that vein.

The other main caching system I work with on a daily basis is the mind-blowingly-fast Varnish httpd accelerator. If you haven't checked it out yet, get on board (srsly; good MacOS instructions from Nate@lullabot here). I'm more than happy to maintain the Varnish integration module on drupal.org, but I've been bugged by my inability to take this work with me on airplanes and other offline places.

See, DAMP ships without the required socket support needed to "talk" to the Varnish control terminal. I'm not saying this is Acquia's fault. They can't put the kitchen sink in there, and most regular users will never miss the socket extension. Those of us who might, well, we can help ourselves, right?

Right! To get rolling, grab the source and untar it. As of this article, we're working off PHP 5.2.13, but this should be pretty solid advice for any 5.2.x release.

cd php-5.2.13
./configure --with-sockets=shared
make
cp modules/sockets.so /Applications/acquia-drupal/php/ext/

Then add the following to the bottom of your /Applications/acquia-drupal/php/bin/php.ini:

[sockets]
; Sockets are useful!
extension=sockets.so

Restart your DAMP application and hit up your friendly local phpinfo() and you should see a section for sockets. Enjoy talking directly to network interfaces! :)

Josh Koenig

Start:  2010-08-07 09:00 - 2010-08-08 15:30 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:  Chris Charlton mike stewart jromine christefano rainbreaw nbluto thund3rbox DrupalShark snelson

Registration is now open for DrupalCamp LA 2010. Mark your calendars for Saturday & Sunday, August 7-8th, 2010. Attendance is free. The camp will be taking place in the same great venue from last year - UC Irvine in the city of Irvine, California. The campus has housing available if you wish to rent rooms to stay overnight.

If you registered last year then your account is already setup and you just need to login and edit your profile to mark what days you plan to attend.

Free to attend. Parking costs about $8-12 per day. Lunch is not provided but you can bring your own or buy a food pass from the cafeteria on campus (which people liked last year). Nighttime private camp party on Saturday 7PM-MIDNIGHT sponsored by MediaTemple.

SPONSORS

Warner Music Group

Media Temple

Achieve Internet

Volacci

Tropo

Stauffer New Media Development

Monstrositee

Commerce Guys

WHAT PEOPLE LEARN EACH YEAR AT DrupalCamp LA

• Drupal 6 & 7
• Drupal Basics
• Business with Drupal
• Administering & Maintaining Drupal
• Building with Drupal
• Drush
• PHP & SQL
• Designing & Developing for Drupal
• Drupal Themes & Modules
• Contributing back to Drupal, and more!

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS & CONTRIBUTORS

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California Irvine
Acquia
Intrinsic Web Designs
SunRain Productions
Cherry Hill Co
Development Seed
Sage Tree Solutions

New site design provided by SoCal's premier Drupal agency This By Them, creators of the 2009 site.

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

By sponsoring our camp you get exposure and praise from our community mixed with networking possibilities during the entire camp. Due to budget cuts recently experienced by state schools in California, however, UC Irvine's costs have gone up, meaning our costs for the camp have also risen. We are charged with the task of raising upwards of $10,000 this year in order to fund the event our community has come to expect. Please consider sponsoring. Contact an organizer today.

Sponsor get their names/logo/link on our camp site, camp signs, maps & pamphlets, videos, our tweets - anything we can think of. If you want to make your presence known in the SoCal Drupal community then you want in on this. Visit http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship for more details.

RAFFLE PRIZES

Each day a dozen winners will be announced and each will get to choose a Drupal related prizes.

• Book publishers currently sponsoring the camp prizes are O'Reilly, Apress, and Packt Publishing.

• Two special winners will win full 1-month passes to Lynda.com on behalf of Drupal author & community leader Chris Charlton, author of Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes online video training.

• Creators of the jQuery & Drupal plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver & Eclipse IDE, XTND.US are providing two awesome "CSS Ninja" shirts, check out the shirts below or at: http://www.zazzle.com/css_ninja_style_class_tshirt-235091799113607617)

DrupalCamp LA APPAREL

At the camp we will be selling awesome new t-shirts for only $10! That's 50% off the online price. Our 2009 camp shirt is also (still) available and you can order yours before the camp!

This is the shirt being raffled off by XTND.US. You can order your own online.

Get more info about DrupalCamp LA

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

Sponsorship information available at http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship

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