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Internet Marketing Strategies and Drupal Tips
Integrating Node.js with your existing Drupal site - Jan. 23, 2014
Node.js - a paradigm shift in web development is coming to a server near you. It provides a unifying language all the way from the back end to the front end. This session will give you an overview on what Node.js is, how to get started with it, and most importantly, how and when to integrate it with your existing Drupal application (get best from both worlds).
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Promote Your Business For Free On Twitter
You don't need a marketing budget to promote your business on Twitter.
You can add dozens of new customers in just a matter of days without having to spend so much on advertising, of course, through the right approaches.
Social media networks have shown to be one of the most powerful and cost-effective ways to grow your company.
Twitter, being the largest micro-blogging channel on the internet, offers a lot of free ways that will bring in relevant customers, thereby boosting business and income.
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Drupal 8 Sprint Weekend - Jan 24 - 25, 2014
For Drupal developers and Drupal users:
RSVP for Drupal 8 Sprint Weekend here: https://groups.drupal.org/node/394518
Friday evening, January 24th and all day Saturday Jan 25th is the Drupal Sprint Weekend, with local sprints being held around the world! Vancouver is no exception. The Jibe will be holding an all-day sprint at their offices on Friday Jan 24th @ 5pm and Saturday Jan 25th @9am-5pmish. The address is:
#202 - 311 Water St. Vancouver, BC (Canada)
http://goo.gl/maps/xWphZ
Contribute
This sprint will not have any specific focus, other than people should come to make public contributions to Drupal. Some examples of this could be
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Git for Grown-ups
Emma Jane Westby has written a good tutorial on Git, the version control system. It goes into the "why" of Git, not just the commands you need to know to use Git. It's easy to read and appeals to adults method of learning.
http://24ways.org/2013/git-for-grownups/
Learn to Streamline your CSS code with Sass
Here are some resources to get you started:
1. Basic Introduction to Sass
This article gives a very good overview of what Sass code looks like.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/introduction-to-sass-part-1-i...
2. Installing Sass on Windows
This is a great tutorial on how to install Sass on Windows. This also works on Windows 8
http://zqp.me/web-development/getting-started-with-sass-on-windows/
Site Down with General Error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away
Sometimes it's hard to find the sollution to this problem. The error message is so wordy and goes on for several lines. When searching Google for a solution, what search phrase do you use? Do you search for "Uncaught Exception in Shutdown Function" or "General Error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away"?
Here are some solutions to this problem.
1. Press F5 on your browser to refresh the screen. For some people, this simple step solved the problem.
2. Edit your my.ini configuration file to increase max allowed packet size.
Drupalcon Portland May 20-23, 2013
DrupalCon Portland coming up soon! DrupalCon is short for Drupal Conference. It's an international event with over 3000 expected to attend. See http://portland2013.drupal.org
I’m looking forward to keynote by founder Dries on the State of Drupal 8. Dries will present his State of Drupal keynote, revealing the current state of Drupal 8 between Feature Freeze and Code Freeze, also giving a glimpse of what's beyond Drupal 8 after we have a successful release. Here’s a list of the keynote speakers: http://portland2013.drupal.org/speakers