Creativity

Quick demo of what we are going to discuss
Original session was posted here
With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

This year will be the first time I have been able to attend the She's Geeky Regional Un-Conference, and Girl am I excited! She's Geeky brings together women from all walks of technology, including those working in non-technical fields within technology. 

Thank you, everyone!  To our clients on the frontlines of social change, to the hundreds of thousands of organizations we've not yet met but who are also working to improve the planet, to the Drupal Community for showing the world (yet again) how Open Source can change it, to the "undocumented Drupalers" who are silently expanding the install base of our favorite CMS platform one website at a time, to the networks of geeks all around the world lending their talent for a be

This past year, CivicActions has undergone a transformation in the way that we organize project teams.  We've moved from a "matrix" model (people contributing to several projects) to what we call "Pods" (dedicated teams focused on one or two projects at a time). This transformation has yielded incredible results for clients and project team members. This model also means that we can more easily scale, which we are preparing to do in 2010.

Finally iWebkit theme for drupal-iPhone websites is production ready. Theme now includes Drupal form theming and 12 different subthemes to suit your color preferences.

From Now on this theme will be maintained on drupal.org as iWebkit project.

Features added since last release are:

1. Form elements are now themed. All form elements now looks like default iphone forms. This means there is no need to add custom user-login, comments or node add forms for your iphone website, you can directly use drupal default forms and they will be automatically converted into iPhone style form elements.
   • Select list and Checkboxes look like-
     
   • Radio buttons and Text-area look like-
     

This hook_world_alter() T-shirt idea was something Trevor Twining came up with way back at DrupalCon DC.  I got a single T-shirt made for DrupalCon Paris.  A number of people said they wanted one – though since I'm not interested in the business of making T-shirts, I thought I'd make

In Seattle, our local Drupal User Group is organizing a Drupal conference called the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit.  This event includes technical and business oriented talks.  It's going to be a great time, and I recommend signing up now before it fills up. 

We are limited to 150 people, and we already have about 50 people signed up. 

I was extremely pleased with my DrupalCon Paris session on jQuery for Designers and Themers. It was a great success – my best session yet.

UPDATE: Watch the video here.

You can see the slides at tinyurl.com/jQuery-Designers and download the sample theme code from drupal.org/project/jq4dat.

I made a couple of references to blog posts and work I've done with jQuery during the session:

• I wrote a jQuery dashboard plugin that uses jQuery UI's Sortable library to make an iGoogle-like dashboard with an example server-side implementation.
• Calling drupal_get_js() and drupal_get_css() from page preprocess functions creates an unnecessary performance hit. This blog post discusses a technique that allows javascript and CSS to be added in the page preprocess function without needing to call drupal_get_js() and drupal_get_css().

The iPhone and iPod touch continue to gain market share of mobile web traffic. According to edibleapple 48% of all smartphone web requests in the US come from iPhones, while Windows and RIM devices together comprised 34% of mobile web requests.
These numbers show that it is becoming increasingly important to have iPhone compatible websites.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle

Determining if your website project will be a success or failure is tricky. It's like trying to decide if the pizza you're about to eat will be good or bad (which can be a trick question- when is pizza ever that bad?).