Performance enhancements, Flash file embedding and lots of brainstorming about strategy. It was a lively Lab made sweeter with cardamom-cinnamon doughnut holes. Who cares that Mr. Groundhog saw his shadow? Read More »

Cozy Wednesday at our new digs, we worked one-on-one to look at importing users in Drupal 7. We also took some time to set up Subversion in Windows in preparation for working safely with Advantage Labs site repositories. Read More »

We covered a mixed-bag of issues and ideas today. About half-way through the session, we had a great discussion about site search options. Check out what people were exploring in the Lab Pad transcript below. Read More »

We held our first Lab Hours session at Intermedia Arts' ArtsHub facility. The atmosphere of the open gallery space was an interesting and inspiring change. The experience was so positive we're making the change permanent. Look for Lab Hours at ArtsHub from now on beginning next week! In the meantime, check out what we worked on in the Lab Pad transcript below. Read More »

With visions of Thanksgiving meals and family conversations dancing in our heads, we followed the holiday with some serious focus on Drupal at today's Lab Hours session. Diving headlong into Drupal 7 we explored setting up Media for audio files with an associated open source player. We also conceptualized using OG relationships as entities we can add fields to -- we're still getting there but we hope this leads to a flexible way to drive views displays without cluttering up the site with extra content types. Read More »

The pre-Thanksgiving Lab provided much to feast on -- pun intended; we talked about feeds -- and much to be thankful for. Take a look at the live Lab pad or feast on the notes below. Read More »

Incredible amount of work getting done today! Must be the season. Everything from grid CSS to volunteer scheduling schemas with a dash of newsletter tempting on the side. Check out the mind-boggling scope of what our local Drupalistas can tackle and accomplish in two hours with the collaborative support of their peers. It's (mostly) documented in the live Lab pad notes and the transcript of same below. Read More »

Despite his having a terrible case of #Drupalflu contracted this past weekend at #BADCamp, it was great to have Jer participating in Lab today. For many of us it was a Drupal marathon day starting with the second day of our two-day Drupal 7 Site Building class, followed immediately by a few hours of Lab and then moving next door for the monthly Twin Cities Drupal Group gathering. It was all a blur but the online Lab pad and transcript below point at some serious progress having been made. Check it out. Read More »

The return of rain and Minnesota late fall afternoon dreariness scuttled our desire to hold Lab outdoors again this week. All in all quite a productive session. I'll dispense with the summary and point you directly to the live pad notes or the transcript below to peruse the details. Read More »