May 2011 Meet Up: Thur May 19th @ 6:00 pm

RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1

Duo will start opening doors at 6:00pm for attendees to arrive, socialize, and hang out before meetups. We are hoping to officially start presentation by 7:00pm. Comment your RSVP with name and bring photo ID to gain authorized access to Duo's office downtown.

Presentations:

• What I learned on my way to Drupal 7 by Joel Finkel
• Drupal as a framework for iOS mobile development by Rachel Jaro

Joel Finkel started writing computer code in 1348, when he created a database to track population collapse during the Black Plague. His first iPhone app was designed to help Ulysses S Grant procure whiskey in a timely manner. In the 1930, he created an fine-tasting social- networking site for 5-year-olds called Pastebook. Operating as a confused alter kocker, Mr. Finkel now freelances under his company's name: Systems by Design of Illinois. He has been using Drupal since 1962 and thinks that every day is April 1st.

Rachel Jaro is a Solutions Architect for Promet. Rachel has been with Promet for 5 years and her experience helps her lead a talented team of developers and provide creative solutions to clients needs. Rachel has worked on open source and Drupal web development. Some of Rachel 's project highlights include large scale data migration to Drupal, community deployment in Drupal for sba.gov and Drupal and mobile application integration. Rachel loves working with Promet because of the wonderful people that she is surrounded by. In her free time she tries to convince her friends that she can be the next American Idol.

Estimated Agenda:
6:00 - Doors Open
6:30 - Meetup Starts, Arrival, and Socialize
7:00 - Presentation: Joel Finkel - What I learned on way to Drupal 7
7:45 - Break with Questions and Answers
8:00 - Presentation: Rachel Jaro - Drupal as a framework for iOS
8:45 - Questions, Answers, Closing/Wrap Up
9:00 - Beer @Dick's Last Resort (315 N Dearborn St)

The Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group is proud to present at least two featured presentations about the hottest Drupal topics each month. We have room for 75 people and all skill levels are welcomed. If you are brand new to Drupal we recommend attending one of our free monthly training workshops.

Joel Finkel will be presenting....What I learned on my way to Drupal 7....I will demonstrate a new, very simple website that I am working on for a local photographer. Looking under the hood, I will demonstrate the following:

• Understand the business rules
• Why 12 columns and 64 regions is not always a good thing
• Starting with your own theme can be a challenge, but not a hard one
• HOOK_node_presave() is your friend
• Integrating Javascript and D7 is fun, fun, fun
• How to roll your own image gallery

Rachel Jaro will be presenting....Drupal as a framework for iOS mobile development....Mobile development is the rage. How can drupal play a role? We'll discuss SDK options for mobile development, HTML5's role and how we used Drupal as a framework for the mobile apps to check home for enterprise mobile web application development.

• An introduction to the mdot, hybrid and native apps
• How your site can be part of the mobile world
• Using services module and json

We'll discuss mobile development that goes beyond games and displaying your content on a mobile device. We'll provide examples of real time two way communication, geo tracking a fleet of devices using openlayers and google apis. Intended audience: This presentation will speak to a wide audience, from developers looking to learn about tool sets and methods to decision makers who want to see how to take the iPad from a media consumption device to a powerful workforce communication tool.

Questions answered by this session:
1. What is mobile development?
2. What are the available development tools for mobile development?
3. How to use services and openlayers to create an integrated mobile and web application?
4. What are possible challenges with using Google maps API and openlayers?

Almost every CDMUG presentation is recorded and now available online @ http://cdmug.org/videos

If you are not able to physically attend, join us virtually in our #cdmug IRC chat room on freenode. Members hang out in the chat room on a daily basis even when meetups are not happening. If you are unfamiliar with IRC view http://drupal.org/irc feel free to utilize our web based chat client @ http://cdmug.org/chat

All meetups will be in traditional CDMUG fashion. No dress code, relaxed attitudes, open ideas, laptop encouraged, remember business cards, and we will probably go for a beer afterward.

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