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Mar 20, 2012

DrupalCon Denver Webform 3 Presentation

Today I'm giving a presentation at DrupalCon Denver on Webform! Here are my slides for the talk.

May 6, 2011

New Demos Site Up

I actually put this site up last week and tweeted about it then, but for long-term reference I'd like to announce that my Demos site at http://quicksketch.org/demos is now back up and on Drupal. So far I've got demos up for some of the major modules I've writen: Form Builder,…

Direct Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 Migration in 24hrs

With Drupal 7 around the corner, a lot of Drupal developers and users are surely looking at their lingering still-on-Drupal-5 sites and thinking, "surely I might be able to skip Drupal 6 and upgrade directly to Drupal 7?" Most all experienced Drupal developers would say (to end…

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Nov 13, 2010

BADCamp Webform Presentation

I'm about to give my presentation on Webform 3 presentation at BADCamp, in Berkley, CA (yes, the same talk I did at Pacific North West Drupal Summit). Here are the slides and the example site(s), including the database dumps. Enjoy!

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Oct 3, 2010

Pacific North West Drupal Summit

I'm about to give my presentation on Webform 3 presentation at Pacific North West Drupal Summit. I've been meaning to give a talk on Webform for a long time. Here are the tentative slides and the example site(s), including the database dumps.

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Dec 2, 2008

My New Book: Using Drupal

My first book, "Using Drupal" will be shipped December 16, 2008. I co-authored the book with several other incredible Lullabots: Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton, James Walker and Jeff Robbins. I'm very, very excited about the release of this book, not only because it's the…

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Apr 28, 2008

An Event Apart New Orleans

Originally uploaded by sdierdorf. Last week I attended An Event Apart in New Orleans. The event is hosted by the good folks at A List Apart. I haven't attended web conferences outside of the Drupal community, so it was quite an experience just to see what there is to talk about…

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Mar 9, 2008

Personal Post-DrupalCon Agenda

Once again, DrupalCon this year was no disappointment. After getting back and having a few days to refresh and set my priorities, I've laid out a bit of list of tasks that I hope to complete in the coming months. Image handling. There's no getting out of it now. After announcing…

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Feb 25, 2008

JavaScript in Drupal 6 - DrupalCon 2008

March 5, 2008 I'll be giving a presentation on two of the most exciting new JavaScript features in Drupal 6. You might be able to guess, on Drag and Drop and the new AHAH framework in Drupal 6. These are two features that slipped in at the last possible moment in the Drupal 6…

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Jan 27, 2008

Webform 2.x Plans

Webform and I have had a long history together. It was used on my first Drupal site as a contact form, and it's been used ever since. It was the first module I reported a bug, and led me to learn how to roll a patch file. I became the maintainer and ported it to Drupal 4.7 after…

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