The next meeting is one that many have awaited for some time. We'll have no agenda; just getting together and playing around with Drupal. Bring your questions and projects. Anticipate small working groups forming around key projects of interest.

Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Location: 5 Seasons restaurant, Alpharetta, exit 10 off of hwy 400

Thanks to Michael Martin and Bill Shaouy of IBM for their most engaging case study last month re: the Zuda Comics site.

Sorry for the delay, but attached are the Zuda Comics Power Point slides from last meeting's presentation.

Thanks to Michael Martin and Bill Shaouy of IBM Global Services.

Mike Schinkel of NewClarity and Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs will be killing two birds with one stone by demonstrating:

1.) The underlying architecture of Drupal including CCK and Views, and
2.) How to debug Drupal 5.x using PhpED from NuSphere.

Hi everyone! I've posted a screencast of the Podcasting with Drupal presentation I gave at our meeting last week. You can watch it on my blog, or download it by right-clicking this link and selecting 'Save as.' The downloadable file is a 177MB and requires Quicktime to watch.

Hi Mal:

Mike Schinkel here. I've decided to move forward with using Drupal for my
client instead of WordPress. But I'd really like to find someone who can
tutor me in crash-course style on setting up Drupal and also writing themes
(it could be two different people.) I'm expecting it will take 3-6 hours,
possibly over two sessions and I can afford to pay $25 an hour. Would it
be possible for you send this out to your list of users? We are also
looking at the possibility of using Drupal for Atlanta-Web.org's website.

Aelera is looking for a motivated and seasoned PHP developer with strong roots in Drupal and the open source community. Ideal candidates would have a strong understanding of Drupal 5, Drupal Module Development, Organic Groups and PHP/MySQL. Drupal Theming, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript are a plus! If you are interested in working on the next big social networking project then look no further!

Peter West

Aelera Corporation

770-619-7819

Please start using the forums to provide feedback to the Drupal Atlanta organizers. Participation by members will allow us to ramp up in the quickest possible manner.

Thanks!

Below is the error to which I was referring during the tutorial on Drupal installation at last night’s meeting. Everytime I do a live install of 5.x, I get this error and then have to research the fix.

Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information. (Currently using Unicode library Error)

You can search the forums for a solution to this problem. You’ll see quite a few people are encountering this problem.

I poured through the various posts on the forums until I found a solution that worked.

Below is a post that I found that helped me resolve the error: