Had the pleasure of being chosen to deliver a talk at Drupal DownUnder 2012. I was really pleased to deliver the talk and had a great turn-out and some interesting questions. I also received some feedback from a designer who said they enjoyed the talk but would like some more design centric talks. The talk aimed to cover new template changes in Drupal7 and also give some flow charts for theme inheritance. The talk was…
So last night was the first meet-up we had for Learning Drupal Sydney, at Demonz Media in Surry Hills, NSW, Australia http://www.meetup.com/Learning-Drupal-Sydney/events/29076311/ Demonz Media were also kind enough to donate some beers and pizza on top of the training space. Which was great as it took a load of my plate. The plan taken with Learning Drupal Sydney was to use the first three meetings to get some key understandings of Drupal across. When deciding…
Recently looking into legal information about business structures for a joint venture I am working on with two other companies. Below are some important links I have found that can be useful for businesses in NSW Australia;http://www.swaab.com.au/publications/a1.pdf http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/About_us/What_the_Office_of_Fair_Trading_does/Fees/Business_names_fees.html http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/Businesses/Business_structures.htmlhttp://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/viewtop/inforce/act+12+1892+FIRST+0+N/http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.aspx?doc=/content/15773.htmhttp://www.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/start/legalcompliance/Pages/default.aspxhttp://www2.search.asic.gov.au/gns001.html Links Specific to Consulting businesses;http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/41384-2 Tax Links <a title=”http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.aspx?menuid=0&doc=/content/25193.htm&page=51&H51″ href=”http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.aspx?menuid=0&doc=/content/25193.htm&page=51&H51″ Business Information Event Finderhttp://events.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/ Women in Businesshttp://www.inspiringwomen.org.au/ Linux Australiahttp://linux.org.au/projects/grants
Recently Nick Hodge (Open Source Evangelist) from Microsoft asked me if I would like to do an introduction for the new School of PHP that Microsoft was launching. The School of PHP is a very cool idea and I could not say no to something that could get more people into PHP development. The school is an online course which has video tutorials that help walk people through writing web applications with PHP using Microsoft…
I was able to attend Civi-CRM training whilst in London. The guys from Civi-CRM walked us through the database structure, main code base folder/file structure and the templating system. Civi actually still uses smarty so even though the default drupal templating system is PHP template to change Civi templates your writing Smarty. We learnt how to write code to create Civi-CRM form elements, posting the data into the database and exposing through Civi-CRM and Joomla/Drupal.…
I was pleased to be around in London at the time that Lullabot was there doing training. This was excellent as in Australia you do not really have exposure to deeper Drupal training I could not miss the opportunity. The event was lovely, breakfast and lunch was fantastic and other facilities apart from the internet worked well. The internet well was not to bad but the last day of the course it seemed to not…