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Our next U.S. stop:

Charlotte, NC - Blue Collar Git
Friday, June 8, 2012

Mike Anello and Andrew Riley from Mediacurrent are teaming up to offer the first Blue Collar Git workshop on Friday, June 8 as part of DrupalCamp Charlotte (also part of the Southeast LinuxFest). The cost is only $149 for the full day if you register during the month of May ($199 otherwise). 

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Check the schedule for additional dates and locations. Contact us to suggest a location or schedule custom training for your organization.

New Podcast

DrupalEasy Podcast 82: Mapping Middle Earth
Posted Wednesday, May 9 at 7:50 am
Brandon Morrison (Brandonian on drupal.org) joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello on the first post-DrupalCon Denver edition of the podcast to talk about all things Geo in Drupal 7. Brandon is one of the maintainers of the GeoField module and is an active member of the Drupal Geo community.
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Skill Level: Beginner

Zero To Drupal

This full day course covers the basics of Drupal, helps to give you the information you need to decide if Drupal is right for you, and teaches you all the steps to installing, getting up to speed, and learning the basics you need to know.

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Site Building 1: Drupal is Installed, Now What?

This full-day course covers the building blocks of Drupal and what makes up a web site, the types of content and how to best add, delete and edit content.

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Blue Collar Views

Blue Collar Views will teach students how to quickly and effectively leverage one of the most popular contributed modules. Views is used by more than 450,000 sites around the globe, so being able to wield its awesome power is a necessary skill for site builders of all levels. This course will not only teach the basics of Views, but will also teach students how to quickly use what they learned on real-world sites.

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Meet the Drupal Community

We spend time during most of our courses talking about the many ways you can interact with the Drupal community. It is often said that organizations who don't become involved with the community are only getting half of the Drupal experience. We'll help you discover how to choose modules, evaluate developers, find documentation, and get connected with your local community.

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Theming Fundamentals

This is our beginner theming course that focuses on the anatomy of a Drupal theme.

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Ubercart Basics

Learn how to turn any Drupal site into an ecommerce powerhouse by leveraging the capabilities of Ubercart, a rich and vibrant set of modules designed to let you sell virtually anything online. Ubercart supports both physical and virtual (downloadable) products and integrates with various shipping and payment modules.

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Acquia's Drupal in a Day

As a training partner of Acquia, one of leading Drupal firms in the world, we are pleased to offer Acquia's "Drupal in a Day" training course.

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Fundamentals of JavaScript and jQuery

Along with HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the fundamental client-side building blocks of modern, interactive web sites. This workshop will provide a solid introduction to this scripting language. Students will learn about JavaScript syntax, rules, common uses, and best practices. jQuery is a popular JavaScript library that makes using JavaScript easier, faster, more efficient, and often more powerful. Students will learn the basics of jQuery, what jQuery plugins are, and how to leverage jQuery on web sites.

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Skill Level: Intermediate

Blue Collar Git

The Git version control system can sometimes be a little intimidating for new users -- until you learn just a little bit about what is under the hood, then the full power of this modern version control system is fully revealed. In this full-day workshop, we'll start off by using Tinkertoys to demonstrate the basic commands of Git (including merge and rebase). From there we’ll move on to dealing with remote repositories, dealing with conflicts, and working with patches.

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Site Building 2: Content Displays

This day-long course dives into three of the most widely-used modules that are used to display a site's content: Views, Context, and Panels. Understanding how these modules work (and work together) is key to building a site that delivers content to the right place at the right time in the right format.

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Intermediate Theming

This course focuses on creating a new theme from a base theme, including theming CCK and Views output.

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Site Administration: Beyond the Basics

This workshop will demonstrate various strategies that will allow you to add and configure advanced features to your site via the administration area.

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Building and Understanding Views

This course covers one of the most popular and useful modules for the Drupal content management system. The Views module allows site administrators to create customized lists of content for use in various places. The Views module can output these content lists as pages, blocks, RSS feeds, slideshows, and numerous other formats.

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Building Content-Rich Sites

This course covers two of the most widely used modules in the Drupal eco-system: Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views.

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Advanced Content Management

This workshop will focus on building a magazine-style web site that pulls in syndicated content and gives editors and users the ability to add ratings and comments. The content is then published in various dynamic layouts based on editor and user input.

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Organizing Content

A site's usability is often tied directly to the user's ability to find exactly what they're looking for quickly. Drupal's powerful built-in content categorization ("taxonomy") system can often provide this with relatively little effort. This course will focus on understanding how the taxonomy system works and how you can customize it for your particular site. We'll also discuss several very powerful companion modules that work with the taxonomy system to provide your users with alternate ways to find the content they're looking for.

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Adding Advanced Functionality

This course covers some of the more widely-used Drupal modules to add both functionality and usability to a Drupal-powered site. Included in this course are modules aimed at improving a site's search engine optimization (SEO) and layout as well as modules that allow users to rate content. The course also covers several administrator-level tools to help manage content workflow and advanced site configuration techniques.

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Module Development Fundamentals

Finding that existing Drupal modules don't quite meet all the requirements when developing a web site? If so, you're probably ready to learn how to extend Drupal's functionality with some custom modules. In this course, we cover the basics of writing custom functionality the "Drupal way". You will learn how to leverage Drupal's powerful "hook" system as well as good coding practices that will help make your modules easier to understand, upgrade, and maintain.

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LAMP Administration for Drupal Production

Long before the birth of the Internet, Bell Labs gave UNIX to the world. Now a majority of the world's websites use this system and its cousin, Linux, to host sites and enable developers to work more efficiently with a time-tested and often-dreaded tool: the command line.

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Skill Level: Ninja

Advanced Theming

If you have theming down and want to learn how to override theme functions and theme CCK and Views output, this is the full-day course for you.

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Site Administration: Building Custom Workflows

"Work smarter, not harder". Do you find yourself hitting the ceiling with Drupal's administration tools? Do your Editors and Clients complain about the difficulty of Drupal, or are they prone to make mistakes? Do you need advanced permissions, with multi-level approval? Per-department, per-user, or worse? Drupal has been helping people solve these problems for years now, and new modules are making it more powerful all the time.

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