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Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 via Migrate 2

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Fri, 04/27/2012 - 12:02pm -- Benj

Upgrading a complex Drupal site can be a tricky proposition. This post will explore using the Migrate module to bring users and their role assignments from a D6 site to a fresh new D7 site. We created similar migration classes for taxonomy terms, nodes, and comments, which will not be covered (see the 'Resources' section below, or leave a comment if you need some direction). This is a followup to my last post about upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and presents a potential alternative approach.

DrupalCon Denver

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Mon, 03/26/2012 - 2:57pm -- Benj

This was my third Drupalcon, after San Francisco in 2010 and Chicago last year. Despite my slow and snowy drive from Durango, the weather in Denver was beautiful - and much warmer than either San Francisco or Chicago. The Denver Drupal community deserves a huge congratulations and thank you - this event was outstanding, and I am thoroughly impressed! The venue was great, the sponsors and parties were super fun, the food was probably as good as we'll get when feeding 3,000+ people, and as icing on the cake, the wireless worked great for me!

Upgrading Prattcenter.net from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

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Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:20am -- Benj

The Pratt Center for Community Development in New York City is one of DTEK's oldest and best clients, and has been running on Drupal 6 for two and a half years (Andy migrated them from a custom php site in 2009). This will be a pretty tech-heavy post about how we planned and executed the major upgrade of their site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The major question in any Drupal upgrade is whether to follow the core "upgrade" path - as defined in UPGRADE.txt - or to re-build from scratch and then do a data migration.

Extending Drupal's Context Module: Custom Condition Based on Field Value

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Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:45am -- Andy

We use the context module for Drupal in every site we build. It's a great way to do things like create separate "sections" of a site, with different behaviors and layouts based on an arbitrary set of "conditions" or triggers. For example, we may want Blog posts to have a different layout than other parts of a site.

Devining for DTEK

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Fri, 01/13/2012 - 5:34pm -- Erik

Hello, my name is Erik Fadiman and I'm a graphic "deviner". That means I'm a hybrid designer/developer; I can design web sites as well as build them. I've been a graphic designer for over ten years, and I've been teaching interactive design at the Seattle Central Creative Academy for seven. It's a fantastic job because it forces me to keep up with new technologies in our constantly expanding industry.

Announcing the new DTEK LLC

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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:49pm -- Andy

Happy New Year from the newly-formed DTEK LLC!

We're proud to announce that as of January 1, DTEK LLC is now a limited liability company. While largely behind the scenes, these changes are the culmination of years of hard work and a big business development push in 2011, and represent the next step in our growth as a firm.

Migrating projects from subversion to git

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Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:12pm -- Benj

A version control system is essential to keep track of code changes, and provide a repeatable, reversible process for applying those changes to development, staging and production websites. At DTEK, we used Subversion (svn) for years, but recently made the change to Git. I won't get too deep into the reasons why, but the main win for us is the fast and simple branching; our workflow seems to be less "work" and more "flow" now that we're using git. ;-)

Migrating Warner Coaching to WordPress

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Thu, 10/13/2011 - 1:44pm -- Amanda

"Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." 
— David Whyte 

This quote lives on every page of Brooke Warner's new site, created to help aspiring writers with everything from turning their ideas into a viable project to finding just the right publisher. If you sit down and talk with Brooke for any time at all, you'll see why these words work for her. She's driven, organized and pragmatic—and she's genuinely excited about everything she does. And that's why she was such a joy to work with on our second project together.

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