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DrupalCon Chicago 2011 Take-Aways

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on March 20, 2011

Brandon, Lori, Matt, Matt and John crashed the party at DrupalCon Chicago 2011. The conference brought together more than 3,000 members of the Drupal community. The gathering was a great opportunity to track where the Drupal product and community are headed.

Drupal 7 Media Module is Must-Have

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 22, 2010

Drupal 7 will ship with improved file and media handling built in. But the add-on Media Module is highly recommended for creating a truly user-friendly experience that allows content authors to add images, audio and video.

Open Top Ten from Tim O'Reilly

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

At DrupalCon 2010, Tim O'Reilly shared his favorite open source technologies and projects. We've compiled a list of the top 10 cutting-edge open resources he shared in his keynote address. Tim is the CEO of O'Reilly Media, publishers of all the IT books with animals on the covers.

Drupal Gardens Tour

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

OJC has been building "web condos" using Drupal and WordPress to make it fast and easy to launch a web site for a community organization, event, or project. Now Drupal Gardens takes the concept to a whole new level. They are unveiling a free online service to launch a Drupal-powered website without worrying about the hosting, installation, setup or ongoing security updates.

CSS3 Tool Tour

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

CSS3 is becoming a reality, providing rounded corners, drop shadows, real fonts, gradients, animations and more. The support is good in Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers, and most of these effects will just degrade harmlessly in Internet Explorer.

At DrupalCon 2010, Jen Simmons gave a great presentation on CSS3 and shared lots of useful tools. This screencast gives a quick tour of many of these tools and resources.

DrupalCon 2010 Keynote Highlights

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 20, 2010

Dries Buytaert, the Keynote speaker and Drupal's creator, was introduced by Matt Cheney (Michael Cheney, from IGPA in Urbana, is Matt's dad!) Dries welcomed the huge crowd and celebrated the success and the growth of this open source movement. Five years ago, the first DrupalCon had 40 attendees. This week, over 3,000 of us have gathered at DrupalCon San Francisco. Our friends in Europe even organized their own DrupalCon events in airports in Europe after being stranded by the volcanic ash, Dries reported.

DrupalCon 2010 Core Dev Summit Highlights

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 18, 2010

The first-ever Core Developer Summit was held Saturday at DrupalCon 2010. OJC Technologies was there to advance the accessibility of Drupal. It was a great day meeting and strategizing with about 150 of the (hard-)core developers who have made Drupal great, including Drupal creator Dries and the amazing Angie.

Drupal 8 Form API Accessibility

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on March 31, 2010

Attached is a PDF of a proposed lightning presentation for the Core Developer Summit at DrupalCon 2010.

Upgrading to Drupal 7 theme_links

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on August 22, 2009

Below is draft information for the Upgrading section of the Drupal Handbook. Please provide any feedback or suggestions in Issue #364219.

API Change

Drupal 7 added a new $heading parameter to the theme_links() function.

Drupal 5-6: theme_links($links, $attributes = array('class' => 'links'))

Drupal 7: theme_links($links, $heading = array(), $attributes = array('class' => 'links'))