Last year on the 23rd November Microsoft sponsored a one day focused PHP event. This occurred the day before the Open Source Developers conference was scheduled to start. The day was organised with a series of short talks and workshops held in one room. The event attracted small interest at first and rapidly gained exposure closer to the day. The day was held with success and attendees where happy with the presentation of both workshop…
The last weekend before I had to leave the UK the Brighton Bar Camp was on the 2 and 3 September 2010. This was great it meant another excuse to spend a weekend at @stevepurkiss place in the sun near the beach. It was a great venue held at the the Skiff in Brighton where Steve works on his Drupal projects. We got there early on the Saturday to help set-up. I was quite amazed…
I was able to attend Civi-CRM training whilst in London. The guys from Civi-CRM walked us through the database structure, main code base folder/file structure and the templating system. Civi actually still uses smarty so even though the default drupal templating system is PHP template to change Civi templates your writing Smarty. We learnt how to write code to create Civi-CRM form elements, posting the data into the database and exposing through Civi-CRM and Joomla/Drupal.…
On the 29th of September 2010 I managed to make my way to the London Hackspace. I boarded on the train and made my way to Victoria station where I was going to change trains to Hoxton and though I would take a smoke break. When I returned to walk down to the station it was boarded up with police standing in the way. Supposedly there was a bad smell reported and people where ill…
I was able to make it to another London Drupal Pub Meet-up on 27 September 2010. It was a great night and Alie, Randy and Angie from Lullabot where there. I ended up spending alot of the night outside on the smoking terrace chatting Drupal with other London Drupal hence and did not get to chat much with Lullabot. Was a great night as always friendly social atmosphere always meeting new people and got to…
I was pleased to be around in London at the time that Lullabot was there doing training. This was excellent as in Australia you do not really have exposure to deeper Drupal training I could not miss the opportunity. The event was lovely, breakfast and lunch was fantastic and other facilities apart from the internet worked well. The internet well was not to bad but the last day of the course it seemed to not…