Brock D. Boland
Professional web geek & Drupaller, atheist, and DC resident.

We all enjoy our monthly Drupal Social Hour in DC, but this month, let's start getting some work done!

A lot of us came back from Drupalcon excited about the Learn Drupal initiative spearheaded by the Boston user group. If you missed the April 9 meetup, the goal of the initiative is to raise the number of Drupal.org users who contribute to...

Hi DC Drupalers!

The DC Drupal Meetup will be meeting at it's regular time and place on May 14 at Stetson's. We'll be doing lightening round presentations. There are already a couple of people signed up to present, so we have room for 1-2 more people. If you are interested in talking about your work, drop me a line.

We'll also...

Data Abstraction for Large Web Applications

Speaker: Brandon Savage

Description:

"The principles of abstraction are drilled into us repeatedly, and we work hard to abstract the layers of our applications. Abstraction between layers is excellent, but what about abstraction within layers, especially the data layer? Many developers still build...

We all enjoy our monthly Drupal Social Hour in DC, but this month, let's start getting some work done!

A lot of us came back from Drupalcon excited about the Learn Drupal initiative spearheaded by the Boston user group. If you missed the April 9 meetup, the goal of the initiative is to raise the number of Drupal.org users who contribute to...

We all enjoy our monthly Drupal Social Hour in DC, but this month, let's start getting some work done!

A lot of us came back from Drupalcon excited about the Learn Drupal initiative spearheaded by the Boston user group. If you missed the April 9 meetup, the goal of the initiative is to raise the number of Drupal.org users who contribute to...

Hey Everyone! I have really exciting news about the upcoming April 12th meetup. I'm happy to announce that several (eleven!) members of the jQuery core team will be at the meetup to meet developers and answer questions that you might have. We'll do a "genius bar" setup where core team members can help you solve something...

Intro to Symfony2

Topic:

Symfony is an Open Source distributed PHP framework. Symfony2 was released in 2011, and is a significant departure from Version 1. Although this powerful MVC framework is easy to use after some familiarity, getting started can be a bit intimidating. This session will demonstrate how to get started and some of the...

This is a special DC Drupal meetup! APCO has kindly offered to host & cater this month's meetup, so we will be gathering at their office for a post-DrupalCon debrief. So stop by for food, drinks and an overview of the latest and greatest from the Drupal community.

The DC Drupal Meetups are open to everyone in the area, so stop by to learn...

DrupalCon 2012 will occupy the massive, well-appointed Colorado Convention Center, located in the heart of downtown Denver. When not in sessions, enjoy Denver cuisine at one the many locally-owned restaurants on Larimer street, catch a show at the country's second largest performing arts center next door, or explore world-class galleries at...

Building Databases for Multi-Tenant Applications

Topic:

Building Databases for Multi-Tenant Applications - Large scale applications require sharding to keep up with increased traffic. The simplest and most flexible way to shard is at the schema level. This talk will explain the basics of Tungsten Replicator, installing bi-directional replication...

For everyone who isn't heading down to SXSW, the DC Drupal Meetup will be meeting at it's regular time and place on Mar 12, 7pm at Stetson's. We'll be doing lightening round presentations, and if you are in the mood to show off some of your work, drop me a line.

The DC Drupal Meetups are open to everyone in the area, so stop by...

Ring in the New Year at the first DC Drupal Meetup of 2012. We have a great line up of presenters, so we'll see you on the second floor of Stetson's at 7pm sharp! We'll be doing lightening round presentations and have room for one more presenter. If you are in the mood to show off your latest Drupal project, drop me a line.
The DC...

And we're back to the regular schedule! The DC Drupal Meetup will resume its standard format and location at 7pm on the second floor of Stetson's. We'll be doing lightening round presentations (added bonus points if you have a holiday theme). If you are in the mood to show off your latest Drupal project, drop me a line.
The DC Drupal...

A holiday where we join with those we love and hold dear. which is why it's weird none of you will be there.
So, we'll fakesgiving. We'll bring our homemade families together, and POTLUCK our way into the gratefulness and good cheer necessary to get us through the real event with our families.
Evan, Chris and Emily will be on hand to...

This is a duplicate of the NOVA Drupal Meetup, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw this. DCACM and Phase2, as apart of DCWEEK, will be providing some space and some engineers to assist attendees at this Drupal Distro Installfest. If you are new to Drupal or new to distributions, this is an great forum to get your questions answered and have a...

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Depending on who you ask, Drupal is either a framework or a platform, but no matter how you look at it, there are things about it that suck. Hear Brock Boland talk about the pain points of coding for Drupal 6, how things have improved in Drupal 7, and what's expected to be better in Drupal 8.
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Special Guest:

DCWEEK is a festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. It’s a series of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties, and projects created by the festival organizers iStrategyLabs and Tech Cocktail. DCWEEK...

Hi All,

Zane Matthew will present on one of WordPress&rsquo; most exciting new features: custom post types and taxonomies. He&rsquo;ll cover the &ldquo;what&rdquo;, &ldquo;why&rdquo;, and &ldquo;how&rdquo; of custom post types. Along with in depth use cases in plugin and themes.

We're looking for 4-5 lightening-style presentations this month. Two slots have been taken already. If you want to share your knowledge or get a quick practice round in for your session at DrupalCamp Maryland (last weekend in October), let me know ASAP! As always, the DC Drupal meetups are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a...

Drush is a command-line interface for site admins to manage many aspects of their site. It's mentioned in the Intro to Version Control idea posted earlier, but since it's such a large topic, I suggest we cover it separately.

This discussion group is a a "Cafe Inquiry" type event (a casual get-together to meet people and discuss topics of science and humanism).


***** Please note, this is not a CFI event *****


We will be meeting in the: WEE Large Meeting Room


The topic, Christian Terrorism:
Christian Terrorism comprises terrorist acts by groups or...

I've got croquet, hippie food (grass-fed beef & chorizo burgers, gluten free beer (also legitimately good beer), homemade ice cream), and might have a cornhole set by the end of the day. Stop by Sunday afternoon to partake in some croquet, delicious meats, and some sweet ice creams.

Since I never did a real housewarming party, we can...