Erik:
We had our first Austin Apps sprint last week and got quite a bit done. We had 12 people from Phase2 Technology, LevelTen, Four Kitchens, Mediacurrent and Pantheon all had people at the sprint. Thanks to Four Kitchens for helping us provide a space for the Sprint.
Danielle:
It's been about three months since I joined Phase2 as Community Manager, and I have really appreciated getting to know the needs of the community around Phase2's products and contributed modules. Thank you so much to those of you who have offered your honest -- and at times colorful! -- feedback. Truly, this is how we get better, move forward, and work together. In my last post, I talked about how we planned to respond to the community and about our goal to communicate more about our module contributions and product work. So I'm here to fulfill that promise.
Mike :
A new method for overriding Features in Drupal is presented that works for all types of Features.
Karen:
In the Town of Lake Clarke Shores, Florida, citizens no longer have to wait to access valuable information about their town hall meetings, thanks to a new web site powered by OpenPublic and built by the team at Big Couch Media Group. Seeing a need for not only a site makeover but an overhaul of the tools that community members needed most, John Studdard and the Big Couch team put OpenPublic to the test, utilizing the responsive design theme and maximizing the available tools for citizen engagement, while also building new functionality for the platform. I sat down with John this week to hear more about the build.
Geoff :
The Wysiwyg module for Drupal already provides quite a few tools for the word processor based editors to be able to create Word-esque types of enriched content in their site. Even with those tools though, their is still desire for the "point-and-click" webmaster to be able create even more enhanced elements without having to, well, know code. The combination of the Wysiwyg module and Drupal provides methods of adding plug-ins to the Wysiwyg editors.
For the purposes of this post, the methods to be able to create tabbed and accordion drop-down style content via the CKEditor editor will be covered.
Dave:
We're excited to announce the Alpha 3 release of OpenPublish! This release features app support and a new responsive Omega-based Default Theme amongst other improvements and tools for site builders.
Felix :
Drupal's nature of using hooks to allow functionality override by contributed modules, by the same token it is difficult to have data available between different hook implementations during the request process, specially if they are overridden. Simply we just need to have certain values available overall the system, once they are set.
Betsy:
With the official close to the DrupalCon Denver session process on Monday, we have entered the final days of voting. Now, I believe the final tally for proposed was 565, and our team was happy to be a part of that. So take a moment this weekend and peruse the fine selection of submissions (by track) from the team here at Phase2.
Karen:
I'm reading a book on financial modeling, where the author says, "if you can model it, you can understand it." Try to move past what a dork I am for reading that book, and I'll explain. Basically, if you can set up the pieces of a business into something measurable and tangible, the valuable pieces become clear. I think a similar concept applies to systems like Drupal: "if you can understand it, you can build on it." Or another way: broad adoption of a concept requires that someone besides developers understand it.
Karen:
We're co-hosting an Apps code sprint at BADCamp and we want you there.
