The next Santa Barbara Drupal meetup is two weeks away on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 6:30pm. We are meeting at the offices of RightScale, located at 136 West Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Join us!
This event is free and no RSVP is required, but if you plan to attend please do sign up by clicking the a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/133939#signup">Sign up button below. Knowing how many people are interested in attending can help us better select good locations in the future. People who sign up will also have last minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.
Additionally, you can follow Santa Barbara Drupal on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sbdrupal
Location
We are meeting at RightScale's headquarters at 136 West Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The gate access code is 714. Follow the signs to the conference room.
Thank you, RightScale!
Topics
If you'd like to present on a topic, give a lightning talk or just ask questions of the group, please feel free to leave a comment below.
Drupal Internals: Drupal's settings.php file
Christefano of Exaltation of Larks will step through Drupal's settings.php file and explain what each setting, variable and array are and what they do, from how base_url and cookie_domain affect URLs and sessions to how db_url and db_prefix affect things like Drupal multisite.
As a bonus, the settings.php file from Pressflow, the high performance version of Drupal 6, will also be covered.
There's a module for that
Everybody has a favorite module or two and we'll have a round table discussion where everyone will have a chance to share modules they like, they've written or have used to get out of a sticky situation. It's okay if you don't have any favorite modules -- if you want to, you're welcome to ask the group if a module exists that might help with a use case or problem that you're working on.
At the end of the meetup, the list of modules and the links to download them will be posted in the comments below for the benefit of the larger community.
Drupal After Dark
After the meetup, a few of us will be going out for food and drinks at Roy's on 7 West Carillo St. Their phone number is 805-966-5636.
About Santa Barbara Drupal
Our meetings in Santa Barbara have been hosted at a variety of locations since 2008, including the Java Station coffeeshop, the Las Cumbres Observatory and at UCSB at the Marine Science Institute and the Davidson Library. We're very grateful to our past and present venue sponsors and are always interested in hearing from potential venue sponsors for future meetups.
If you'd like to host a future meetup, please post a discussion in our group at http://groups.drupal.org/sbdrupal or contact @SBDrupal on Twitter.