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by Karim Ratib, infojunkie on d.o. He's the author/maintainer of Views Bulk Operations, Views Hacks, Sheetnode, Feeds Oauth, and Feeds Topics. He's currently a freelancer living in Vancouver.

Objectives

To give you a conceptual overview of how to code views, without going into the details, which can be a bit overwhelming. We'll be talking about high-level stuff. Hopefully by the end of the talk you'll be able to open some Views code and maybe even start coding your own views.

Are you looking to hire a Drupal developer? Do you know how to separate the good Drupal developers from the not-so-snazzy ones?

One of my clients asked me to put together a list of questions to ask prospective Drupal developers to assess their skill set. I came up with six that cover a good swath of the Drupal experience. Spend three minutes on each question, and you'll have a solid 20 minute interview that will tell you a lot about your prospective candidate's Drupal cred.

This is a talk moderated by Dmitri Gaskin, a 14 year old, freshman in high school. He's been doing Drupal for 4 years.

This is a Q&A session, and so go ahead and ask your questions, and either I or somebody else in the room should hopefully answer them.

Q: Apostrophes. Apparently automatic title generation interferes with apostrophes in title names. If I add an apostrophe, it doesn't appear in the database; the custom content will appear in the DB.

John Bickar from the Cubberley Education Library at Stanford University gave a talk called Highlighting Library Collections. Here are my notes:

One of the first things I was tasked to do was to convert our library's static HTML site to Drupal.

Working With a Library Database

One of the best ways to get to know Drupal is to find the useful parts and, well, use them! Here are the most popular modules in Drupal 6, according to the stats at Drupal.org.

10. Google Analytics

Ever tried to make an RSS feed for a custom view using Views 2 and Drupal 6? It's not that intuitive, and you get a lot of scary error messages!

Fortunately, most of these can be safely ignored. An archive post on Drupal.org details how to do this, and get past the nasty error messages like "Row style:Missing style plugin."

RSS XML Errors