The Backreference module allows you to link two nodereference fields so that when you use one to add a link from A to B, that it automatically links B back to A.
Last week was something of a whirlwind for me, flying into Paris on Monday morning, barely recovering from jet lag by Tuesday when DrupalCon Paris 2009 started, and racing through the week.
This is video we shot of a Boulder Drupal User Group Meetup presentation by Ian Cairns of Development Seed and Matt Tucker of pingVision on Open Atrium, the open source intranet system currently in beta release, and the fascinating new potential arising from the new Features Module, which is used to great effect in Open Atrium.
When we made the move from Drupal 5 to 6, there were some nice improvements to the theme system. Preprocess functions, better sub-theming and the theme registry were all great of additions to the system. These and others helped extend what could be done with themes and made the Drupal system as a whole more powerful. How could it get any better? With the fast approaching Drupal 7 code freeze this September, it is a good time to get a sneek peek.
The widely anticipated release of Open Atrium, created by the fantastic team at Development Seed, attempts to bring Drupal into the world of intranets, allowing different teams to have their own conversations. As soon as it was released, I, along with other pingVision developers began evaluating it as a potential tool for communicating with our clients.
This weekend is DrupalCamp LA and five of us here at pingVision are flying out to the left coast to join in on the fun!
The one required file in any Drupal 6 theme is the .info file. It was a great addition to the theme layer and makes defining functionality almost dead simple. Documented features of the .info file allow for adding descriptive information, features, stylesheets and javascript files to the theme. This has made constructing a custom theme much easier compared to Drupal 5 since there is no mucking about in PHP necessary.
Last week we learned that our video What is Drupal? (in 57 seconds) won six Telly Awards.
It's a little embarrassing, winning six awards for one video. When we submitted our entry, we weren't quite sure what category to put it under. So we just threw it into a few different categories, hoping that it might win in one or two. We didn't expect to win an award in all categories entered. (We hoped, though!)
Drupalcamp Colorado 2009 has come and gone. The event garnered over 200 participants - at least half of which came from out of State. Over 40 sessions (if you include BOFs and the opening and closing sessions) occurred over the two days ranging from pure business to the highly technical. Ubercart was heavily presented with Ubercamp partnering with Drupalcamp. The camp was followed by a media sprint.
pingVision presented in quite a few sessions:
DrupalCamp Colorado 2009 is happening this weekend in Denver. (Registration is still open!)
And we at pingVision have been preparing several presentations.
For programmers and developers wanting to get into Drupal development but are unfamiliar where to start, Lead Developer John Fiala is presenting the basics of Drupal Module Development:
