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wiz1.us back, Fill PDF Service still a bit slow
wiz1.us seems to be back (I think it’s generally been working anyway, since it uses hook_boot() and doesn’t have to bootstrap much).
Fill PDF Service is still somewhat slow but does seem to be loading now. The host mentioned that some packet loss is occurring, so I guess that’s what it is.
Hold out a bit longer. Thanks.
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Fill PDF Service and wiz1.us temporarily down
The host is experiencing a DDoS attack on the node which has my VPS in it. Though this sucks, it’s simultaneously kind of exciting. Should be back soon, in any case, and I’ll probably implement some redundancy measures.
Meetup API Tools Seek Co-Maintainer, Further Developments Possible
Always wanted to entitle something like that. Anyway, I’m certainly not getting anywhere fast on PHP Meetup API Client or Meetup API on drupal.org.
There are issues on both expressing this. Reply to them or contact me.
Meetup API on drupal.org issue: http://drupal.org/node/1194532
GitHub issue: https://github.com/wizonesolutions/meetup_api/issues/4
Posted in Drupal, Life of a Web Developer Tagged api, co-maintain, collaborate, collaborator, contact, d.o, develop, Drupal, fork, github, meetup Leave a comment
Code Sprint Report: San Diego, Conference Organizing Distribution (COD)
On May 7, I attended a code sprint in San Diego. Fortunately, Jerad Bitner has already blogged about this. Given that, I’ll share my experience and impressions rather than the event breakdown.
My previous code sprint was at SANDCamp 2011. That one was different in that the goals were planned out in advance and most of the time was spent writing code. In contrast, most of the time in this first COD sprint was spent planning, tweaking make files, and re-building feature modules. Porting an installation profile is a bigger job than writing a module, that’s for sure!
I mostly worked on researching the state of COD’s dependencies and updating the make file and groups.drupal.org wiki page accordingly.
The sprint was fun, and I’d do it again. It’s even better that the sprint helped move it forward.
I’ll be sprinting again at DrupalCon London, so look for me!
Posted in Drupal, Events Tagged cod, code, conference, diego, distribution, Drupal, drupalcon, groups, kohwork'n, london, organizing, san, sprint, wiki Leave a comment
DTLA Re-Gifting
A neat thing about raffle prizes at Drupal meetups is the community aspect. Sometimes you win a prize for which you have no use and can give it back for use at another meetup.
This happened to me a couple months ago at the Downtown L.A. Drupal meetup. I won some online design-related training that I couldn’t use. I passed it on, and I suppose someone at the LA Drupal meetup received it.
Drupal Camp Sacramento Area 2011 Conference Report
This weekend, I attended the first DrupalCamp in the Sacramento, California area. It happened to be held in Davis, a location which worked for me.
Some of you might know that I was talking about taking Amtrak’s Coast Starlight up to the Bay Area. I indeed did. Here’s some pictures: (flickr link coming soon; I have to upload the pictures).
But as for the camp itself, it’s best to break it down into the sessions I attended and then give my overall impressions.
Day 1
As every attendee certainly did, I started off my day listening to Nate Haug (@quicksketch)’s keynote speech. He talked about the community, contributing, contributing productively, collaboration, and the care shown to community members. It was a good start. After that, I went to my first session.
10-11:30: VoIP for Drupal: Turning Drupal into a phone system
The title of this presentation had intrigued me, and I’m glad I checked it out. Adam Kalsey (@akalsey) of Tropo did a fantastic job of demonstrating the VoIP module and how command sets could be sent to phone systems using PHP code.
1:00-2:30 – Using Drupal as an Application Development Platform
This was a neat presentation as well. It was also presented by Adam Kalsey. His thesis was essentially that Drupal is an application development platform that ships with a great CMS as its default implementation. He defended this fairly, outlining many of the subsystems that I indeed deal with regularly.
2:30-4:00 – Building a Distribution using Features, Drush Make, Installation Profiles, and more
Ben Shell gave a fascinating presentation on the topic above. I found this very useful, as it cleared up some questions I had regarding the whole thing. I liked how he spoke a bit about how to get drupal.org to fully package your distribution or installation profile for download!
4:00-5:30 – Streamline your workflow with Fill PDF – fill your PDF templates with your site’s forms
Some dude who came from L.A. gave this one. I think his name was Kevin Kaland or something. Of course it was awesome; would I say otherwise? Fortunately, you don’t have to listen to me; Doug R. Wu has given a brief “str8up” account of the talk. That coupon code expires Monday, by the way.
Day 2
Morning-12 – Code sprint
Saturday ran late for some reason, and I got lost on the way back to campus, so I rolled in around 11 AM. I discovered that no organized code sprint was happening, so I worked more on adding Webform token support to Fill PDF on Drupal 7. This is completed now.
1:00-2:30 – Why Drupal uses hooks, and why you should too
I bumped into that Kevin Kaland guy again at this talk. Something about hooks in Drupal. People liked it or something. (If you blogged about this talk, can you link to it in the comments?)
2:30-4:00 – Know Where The Fire Is (Monitoring Drupal Sites)
I wrapped up my camp with Mike Hathaway’s Nagios talk. It was cool; Nagios is definitely a tool l will have to try some time, along with the Drupal Nagios module of course!
Conclusion
So ended my camp, and so began my transportational journey back…with a new sticker on my laptop!
Posted in Drupal, Events, Life of a Web Developer Tagged 2011, application, camp, development, distribution, Drupal, drush, fill, hooks, installation profile, make, module, nagios, pdf, sacramento, tropo, voip Leave a comment
DrupalCon London 2011 – WizOne Solutions Individual Sponsor Page Now Live!
That link in the other post shouldn’t be showing access denied anymore. They published my sponsor page and are showing Individual Sponsors on the main Sponsors page now!
Here’s the link to my sponsor page: WizOne Solutions DrupalCon 2011 Individual Sponsor Page
I appreciate it, DrupalCon team!
Sponsored DrupalCampLA 2011 (Community level)
You’ve probably already read my spiel on sponsoring, so I’ll spare you. I’ve just sponsored DrupalCampLA 2011 at the Community level (meaning I donated $100). You can look at my sponsor page here: DrupalCampLA 2011 WizOne Solutions sponsor profile.
Hope to see you there!