March 2008

Build a jQuery Lightbox Image Gallery by Changing One Line

Submitted by Steven Merrill on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 12:01

We're back from Boston DrupalCon 2008 and busy catching up with everything else. The site that I'm using this technique on will launch soon, but I wanted to share it now. Also, check out my Technorati Profile!

Drupal's Image module provides you with a pretty no-frills image gallery out of the box. In a site I was recently building, I wanted to present large imagery, but my main content column inside the site was somewhat cramped, and so I decided that some sort of Lightbox / Thickbox effect was in order to present the images to the user.

Luckily, with two extra modules and changing a single line of template.php code, you can get your gallery up and running with Lightbox.

Druplash and Druplex Presentation at DrupalCon Boston 2008 Went Great

Submitted by Brian McMurray on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 22:40

Today was Steve's and my presentation on how to build content-managed Flash sites using Drupal. I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who came out and for the great questions. We've posted our slides as a PDF up on the session page at the DrupalCon Boston site and you can download them here as well.

We Are (Friends With) The (Flex) Champions

Submitted by Steven Merrill on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 08:29

Both Brian and I are at DrupalCon 2008 in Boston this week. We will be giving our presentation about content-managed Flash and Flex sites with Drupal tomorrow night at 4:45 PM, but we’re both going to focus far more on the Drupal side of things and touch briefly on the ActionScript and Flash, so that even Flash and Flex neophytes will understand the entire backend, setup, and use cases.

If you would like to learn more about how to use the Flash / Flex stack, however, you have two options to get training from Developer Community Champions that we should mention.

Off to Boston for DrupalCon 2008!

Submitted by Brian McMurray on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 09:47

In just a few short hours my wife and I will be on our way to Boston for DrupalCon 2008! We are both super excited for all of the great sessions. This will be our first trip to Boston ever so we're looking forward to exploring on the weekends around the conference.