Los Angeles Drupal

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Videos of meetings, presentations, tutorials and more from the Drupal user groups in and around Los Angeles, including http://groups.drupal.org/la and http://groups.drupal.org/downtown-los-angeles

Episodes of Los Angeles Drupal

    • Play Teachers Test Prep Introduction and Walkthrough - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Teachers Test Prep Introduction and Walkthrough

      Teachers Test Prep is an e-commerce website for teachers where they can buy a variety of services including live classes, private tutoring, and online programs related to teacher credentialing exam preparation. Powered by Drupal 6 with Ubercart 2, it uses Views, Panels and a lot of other standard Drupal 6 modules plus a few custom modules. Customers are able to not just to buy classes, but also to buy online packages which includes test, videos, slides, study guides, online live sessions with ...

      • Release date
        May 27, 2012
      • Runtime
        23:34
    • Play Using HTTPRL for Parallelization: PHP Multitasking Without Forking With stream_select() - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Using HTTPRL for Parallelization: PHP Multitaski...

      Did you know that PHP comes with a very powerful function called stream_select()? In short it's a wrapper for the select() system call. This allows for synchronous I/O multiplexing, or in sudo-code, a way to read multiple input/output streams without blocking; only selecting streams that are ready for I/O. In English this means that you can do parallel work from a single PHP thread without forking (forking a process is slow and complex in PHP). In this talk at the High Performance Drupal meetu...

      • Release date
        May 4, 2012
      • Runtime
        49:47
    • Play Introducing Doh, a Drupal-Based Meta-Framework - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Introducing Doh, a Drupal-Based Meta-Framework

      This presentation, by Chris Paul (@cpjeeves) of Exaltation of Larks (@LarksLA), is to introduce a new kind of Dynamic Object Handler that has all kinds of potential but little direction. Proposed features like dynamic module loading, core function overloading, and database-less bootstrapping are suddenly realized by this interesting new way of approaching jQuery-like PHP programming. Through the use of "magic" PHP methods, all kinds of powerful new techniques become possible. This presentation...

      • Release date
        May 4, 2012
      • Runtime
        37:11
    • Play Building an AJAX-driven Application with Drupal - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Building an AJAX-driven Application with Drupal

      New LA Drupal member Chris Paul (@cpjeeves) presents on a complex web application he built that has a desktop feel. Using AJAX, CKEditor and a host of other modules, his web application has an application-like experiance for the user and a nearly seamless content creation process. By leveraging the power of ctools command style AJAX, AJAX submit handlers, and a few custom upgrades, users are able to create content, view that content in relative lists, and then even edit and refresh those lists...

      • Release date
        May 4, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:29:22
    • Play Installing Drush with One Command - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Installing Drush with One Command

      Christefano Reyes (@christefano) of Exaltation of Larks (@LarksLA) gives a short talk and demo on installing Drush, the command line tool for Drupal that's a complete replacement for Drupal's drupal.sh script. The installation uses a simple one-liner that gets runs on every server that that Exaltation of Larks provisions and configures, so this lightning talk is under 5 minutes in length. Don't blink or you might miss it! This presentation was recorded at the High Performance Drupal meetup on ...

      • Release date
        Mar 7, 2012
      • Runtime
        04:52
    • Play Banking on Drupal at the Echo Park Time Bank - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Banking on Drupal at the Echo Park Time Bank

      Time Banking is a simple concept: you work for an hour, earn an hour credit, and spend an hour with someone in your time bank community. Time banks don't get penalized in benefit reductions or pay taxes because unlike market-based national currencies, time banks are more like charitable volunteering circles of mutual aid or relationship-based gift economies. As the recession and Occupy movement encourage people to reimagine work and how they get their needs met in the new economy, time banks a...

      • Release date
        Feb 22, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:04:18
    • Play Marketplace.org Case Study - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Marketplace.org Case Study

      On November 14, 2011, the public radio program Marketplace from American Public Media — heard by more than 10 million people around the country each week — launched a new website at http://www.marketplace.org built on top of our new Drupal 7 content management system. At the Downtown LA Drupal meetup on January 17, 2012, at Droplabs, the team behind that project for an under-the-hood gave a tour of the site, shared its features and talked about about how it was made from concept to launch. Oth...

      • Release date
        Feb 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        52:00
    • Play The Magic of NewRelic - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      The Magic of NewRelic

      Tuning Drupal performance is challenging to say the least. In the past, it has required detailed knowledge of your database engine, trips through the slow query log, caching layers such as Memcache, configuration settings in your http server of choice, PHP and xhprof profiling, front-end caching, and more. This has all become significantly easier in the age of NewRelic, a hosted application performance monitoring tool that has been optimized for Drupal. In this presentation at the High Perform...

      • Release date
        Feb 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        41:06
    • Play Drupal and MongoDB - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Drupal and MongoDB

      At the High Performance Drupal meetup at Filter Digital on February 7, 2012, Ashok Modi (@BTMash) gave a talk about the MongoDB project for Drupal. He detailed the strengths and weaknesses of using MongoDB and performed a demonstration of how to set up MongoDB with Drupal in a test environment.

      • Release date
        Feb 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        35:16
    • Play Drupal's settings.php and sites.php files - Los Angeles Drupal on Blip Los Angeles Drupal episodes on Blip

      Drupal's settings.php and sites.php files

      At the Westside Drupal meetup in Santa Monica at the Santa Monica Public Library, Ashok Modi (@btmash) demonstrates how to use settings.php and sites.php for specific sites needs and sites.php for setting up shared environments. For more information about this meetup, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/197513

      • Release date
        Jan 11, 2012
      • Runtime
        23:53
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