Drupal talk

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Not bad for 2 days work.

Vandaag zijn we ook begonnen aan de derde opdracht.

Vooraleer je drupal kan installeren moet je eerst een webserver hebben. Omdat wij dit niet hebben is er nog een alternatief. Er zijn namelijk enkele mogelijkheden om een soort server lokaal op je pc of mac te laten lopen. Voor mac kan je grbuik maken van MAMP of XAMP en voor pc XAMP. Aangezien 3 van de 4 groepsleden een mac heeft hebben we gekozen voor te werken met MAMP.

Zoals de titel wel duidelijk maakt hebben we dus MAMP gedownload en geïnstalleerd. Ook hebben we al de recentste versie van drupal gedownload, uitgepakt en op de juiste locatie op onze lokale server geplaatst.

De opdracht voor dit onderdeel wordt duidelijk beschreven in de opdachten-bundel van de lector.
Extra informatie kan je terug vinden in de samenvatting die ik verstuurd heb.

Ik stel voor dat zeker tegen 04/12 de opdracht afgerond wordt zodat de voorbereidingen kunnen beginnen voor de voorstelling. Vroeger is natuurlijk nog beter.

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Recording conference talks can be done well, or poorly. This open source software solution does an pretty good job. It captures what ever signal is sent to the vga device and encodes that video stream with the audio of the speaker. The result allows you to enjoy a talk almost as though you were there to see it live.

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Made for a kid's summer program at the Field Museum. This is now integrated with Drupal CMS, although my theming skills weren't so good so it doesn't look as good as the mockup...

"Freshy Theme" saat ini telah mencapai versi 2. Di buat dan dikembangkan oleh Jide (http://www.jide.fr/), seorang web developer yang sangat menyukai drupal dan wordpress.

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Jeff and Young debating changes to context.

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A few weeks ago I took a one day course on Drupal development.  Drupal is an open source software package for developing content management systems and websites.  I had come across it several months ago and installed it on my home computer just to try it out, and when I saw that I had access to this course I figured that it was a good skill to add to my list.

The course was really good, and it covered a lot of ground, which I appreciated.  I feel like any continuing education that I pursue needs to be really concentrated, and it needs to deliver.  I want to walk out with ideas for things, but also with the skills to implement them.  Theory is great, but I want to do things.

A colleague and I have also installed Drupal on a server at work and we’re looking at it as an internal solution for our workgroup.  We are looking for ways to self-publish, collaborate, and create a repository that others can also use.  We do research within a large organization and we’re trying to refine the way we deliver our work.  Email is fine, but it’s a limited channel that excludes people who aren’t on the address line.  Also, email tends to get deleted, and we think a content management system would solve some of those problems.  We are also hopeful that it will encourage the exchange of ideas across departments, since people can post comments and questions via the Drupal platform.

The aspect of Drupal that I am most interested in is its taxonomy module.  Using the taxonomy module enables the site administrator to create categories with which users can classify the information they publish.  It’s certainly nice to allow some free tagging, and in a large department it’s difficult to predict all of the possible descriptive terms that your users might employ.  But creating some broad subject areas at the outset is a good way to encourage consistency, and consistency makes it easier on the content creator (since they don’t have to come up with terms from scratch), and it makes information retrieval easier because it presents the searcher with topic areas that should look familiar.

Right now we are just using Drupal across a very small user group which makes it much easier to manage.  I hope we can roll it out to a few more people and get their feedback on the site, as well as the taxonomy.  In many ways the organization is lax on the ways it classifies information, and if I can demonstrate the benefit of a solid taxonomy in this one area, it’s possible that I can then advocate for refinement in other areas.  I don’t think that it’s very easy for people to see the benefit of a good scheme of information classification in its absence, so I think it’s my job to demonstrate the good it can do.  Plus, if I want to pursue taxonomy consulting, it will be good to get some experience in my current job that I can point to.  An added benefit is that it will diversity my workday.  Now if they would just let me bring my dog to work…