Drupal 7

Services and RESTful Web APIs: An Interview with Blake Senftner

Submitted by Christefano on October 3, 2011 - 3:10pm

To celebrate today’s release of Services 3.0 for Drupal 6 & 7, we sat down for an interview with Blake Senftner, a Services expert who is providing our Developing RESTful Services and Web APIs training in Los Angeles on November 3, 4 & 5.

We’re also offering 10% off this training: just use coupon code SERVICES10 at checkout. The discount code expires on October 15th.

Christefano: What was it that got you interested in Services?

Blake: Well, to be honest it’s because of Services and Drupal’s other APIs that I’m using Drupal at all. I come from a 3D animation background — I did both feature films and console video games — and I needed the ability to create Web APIs for a distributed computing environment for my own startup.

C: When was that?

B: I started working with Services 6.x and the XMLRPC Server, getting the first version of my distributed environment operating with that. It worked fine and I wasn’t looking forward to the move to RESTful until a buddy at Disney Interactive sat me down and explained REST to me.

Los Angeles Drupal trainings: From Drupal Fundamentals to Scalability and Performance

Submitted by Christefano on September 22, 2011 - 12:37pm

Tomorrow is the last day of Summer but the Drupal training scene is as hot as ever. We’ve scheduled a number of trainings in Los Angeles this Fall that we’re excited to tell you about, and we’re happy to publicly announce our training assistance program.

First, though, we’re sending out discount codes on Twitter and Facebook. Follow @LarksLA on Twitter, like Exaltation of Larks on Facebook or sign up to our training newsletter at http://www.larks.la/training to get a 15% early bird discount* toward all our trainings!

Here are the trainings we’ve lined up. If you have any questions, visit us at http://www.larks.la/training or contact us at trainings [at] larks [dot] la and we’ll be happy to talk with you. You can also call us at 888-LARKS-LA (888-527-5752) with any questions.

Beginner trainings:

Intermediate training:

Advanced trainings:

All our trainings are $400 a day (1-day trainings are $400, 2-day trainings are $800, etc.). We’re excited about these trainings and hope you are, too. Here are some more details and descriptions.

Training, Sponsoring and Presenting at DrupalCamp LA 2011

Submitted by Christefano on August 5, 2011 - 11:18am

Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2011 - August 6-7th This weekend, August 6-7th, we’re at University of California, Irvine (UCI) for DrupalCamp LA. This is our 4th DrupalCamp LA and this year we’re sponsoring, providing a pre-camp Site Building with Drupal training, at last count, presenting (and co-presenting) 12 sessions.

Exaltation of Larks’ executive team, including Lee Vodra, Cary Gordon and myself, Christefano, will be there with members of our team and close to 250 other attendees who are attending more than 50 presentations, activities and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions.

Here’s what we’re up to this weekend:

Pre-camp Training

Today’s pre-camp training is Site Building with Drupal 7 and we filled the classroom to its capacity. This training marks the first occasion that Chapter Three’s curriculum for Drupal 7 has been used in Southern California and the response was tremendously positive.

We’re already preparing to offer this training again in Los Angeles immediately following DrupalCamp LA. We’ll continue offering Drupal 6 trainings for the foreseeable future, too, but this class showed us that the community is hungry for more Drupal 7 training.

LA Drupal meetup in Pasadena, April 4, 2011

The settings.php file offers a good look at a cross section of Drupal and how many parts of Drupal operates. Learn about what’s new in Drupal 7 and how it differs from Drupal 6 and Pressflow at the LA Drupal meetup on April 4, 2011 in Pasadena, where Christefano will be presenting another installment in his series on Drupal core, Drupal Internals: The settings.php file.

Drupal in a Day for Drupal 7 Training - March 3, 2011

Drupal in a Day - A One-Day Training offered by Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three.

This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework. You will have access to the Drupal experts from Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three and:

  • Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
  • Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal’s permissions system.
    See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
  • Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal’s taxonomy system.

At the end of this one-day class you’ll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you’ll see on the web today.

And all of this in Drupal 7!

Git with Drupal 7, June 12, 2010

Together with LA Drupal user group members and with contributions from local companies, Exaltation of Larks’ CTO and co-founder, Christefano, co-produced Git with Drupal 7, a one-day event that featured both a git bootcamp and a Drupal 7 code sprint.

Attendance was limited to 30 people, but with help from WebEnabled and Acquia, we broadcasted the bootcamp via WebEx conference. The bootcamp video was posted online on blip.tv and on iTunes.

This was the second Drupal 7 code sprint to be co-produced by the Larks and LA Drupal. The last code sprint was organized by Exaltation of Larks’ Cary Gordon. It was held just prior to the Drupal 7 code freeze and was a full two-day event.

We had a lot of ground to cover and our goal was to work through specific issues the various sections of the core improvements handbook page and help get Drupal 7 to beta and on track for a summer release.

For more information, see the Drupal.org front page post or the original event announcement in the LA Drupal group.

Worst case scenarios for new Drupal administrators

Submitted by Christefano on November 28, 2008 - 10:34pm

Over at the Acquia weblog, Jeff Whatcott is asking for people’s Drupal disaster stories. I asked a handful of people in the office what they would add to the list and before we knew it, we quickly had a decent list of avoidable disasters.

Building websites with Drupal can be like raising an unruly child that only does what it wants to do. We’re fond parents, however, and we love Drupal. Every item in this list is a usability issue, so we’ve posted this to the Top User Experience Improvements in Drupal 7 wiki page with the faith that D7 will play well with others and not bring as many people to tears.

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