Presentation

I recently presented a session titled Case Studies in Academia: Drupal at ASU & Johns Hopkins Knowledge for Health at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010. The presentation went really well. It was great to meet with all the other universities that are using Drupal and talk about the wildly varying ways Drupal is being used in academia.

If you'd like to watch the video recording, it's available on Archive.org or on the DrupalCon presentation page. The slides for the presentation are attached below.

[Update] I've updated the handout to be a single page, cleaned-up a lot of the instruction, and fixed several typos. Please see the revised handout below.

An additional note: If you use the handout to assist your site upgrade process, please do me a favor and fill out a brief survey.

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Attached below is the handout from the July 2009 ASU Drupal Users Group workshop. Use this handout to help you cover all the steps necessary to upgrade your site from Drupal 5.x to 6.x. It contains a module inventory worksheet and a site review checklist that can be used to help you make sure your site is fully functional after the upgrade.

Note: I created this handout for the ASU DUG workshop as well as an assignment for one of the courses I'm in at ASU. If you use the handout as an aid when performing a site upgrade, please let me know so that I can send you a link to a brief survey about your experience with it. The survey will help me get a better understanding of how you used the handout and how it can be improved.

Attached below are the slides for the April, 2009 ASU Drupal Users Group presentation I gave on maintaining sites using a combination of CVS (to checkout Drupal core and contrib modules) and Subversion (for backing up your site's code base and integrating with locally maintained modules and themes).

Here's a quick rundown of links mentioned in the presentation:

• 5 minute overview of Subversion (video)
• Subversion Handbook
• CVS Handbook
• CVS Deploy module for Drupal

Read on after the break for code samples.

Attached below are the slides for the March, 2009 ASU Drupal Users Group presentation I gave. The presentation contains info on the following topics:

DrupalCon 2009: Washington, DC

• DrupalCon 2009 Website
• DrupalCon session videos listing

CAS

• Download the CAS module
• Download the PHP CAS library

FeedAPI

• FeedAPI module
• FeedAPI Mapper module
• Filter by Node Type module

Miscellaneous Links

• Twitter API module

Attached below are the slides I used for both the March and April ASU Drupal Users' Group presentations I did. The first was on Content Access and Workflows and discussed the setting up effective content creation workflows with corresponding access controls. The second covered an intro Content Creation Kit (CCK) and Views. See the lists below for modules / sites referenced in the presentations.

Content Access and Workflows presentation

Simple Workflow + Actions

• Actions
• Workflow

Workflow NG

• ACL
• Content Access
• Content Creation Kit (CCK)
• Token
• Views
• Workflow NG

Other stuff referenced

• Diff
• Devel

CCK & Views presentation

• Content Creation Kit (CCK)
• Content Templates
• Date
• ImageField
• Views
• Full list of CCK-related modules