Claudina Sarahe

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Building Beauty on Deadline: Project Management, Development, Multi-Device Theming, and Deployment When All Hands are On Deck

The Site

• http://daniel-libeskind.com/
• Horizontal continuum for all sections
• Press request and access functionality with Organic Groups
• Complex, structured project content type
• News, press releases, etc.
• Events listing
• About Daniel Libeskind section, including sub-project listing with galleries
• Project, one-by-one galleries
• PDF Generator
• Mobile version ...including for BlackBerry

Media module should at least come with proper Views integration and a number of default views for administration, probably making use of Views Bulk Operations.

This can be pure progressive enhancement, the code weight is in separate files and the rare person who does not have Views can use the much weaker administration pages Media currently has.

The request was to stick search in a menu. I said "I bet that's easy with hook_page_alter()!"

Not quite.

The primary links menu is output directly by the theme, and so is one of the very very few things that occurs after hook_page_alter().

You can tell the theme to stop outputting it directly, and put it in a block that is displayed in a region, or you can add it to the page rendering array in code with hook_page_build().

A collection of notes.

• http://mogdesign.eu/blog/performance-tips-for-drupal-theming/

Tools and tips for improving site performance (for any site):

As long as gem and rvm are already set up (see RubyGems and RVM on Ubuntu), all you need to do is:

Most recently on Ubuntu: This worked with sudo.

Background

Main Gotcha:
compass-susy-plugin does not show on gem list

CS would like a module that lets you set in which places you want to be required to confirm delete and which places should just let you delete.

• Menu items-- don't make me confirm
• Content-- make sure

I don't think the confirm form is necessary to present cross-site scripting-- that's in the token with the form (or delete link— that might be an easy way to do this, change one or the other to links so you can visually see if you're getting a confirmation or not, and maybe think twice faster).

[should have repeated the name of the building]

The maintenance of this building is pretty costly.

[the building with the elevators and plumbing (?) and infrastructure on the

I find Zen's breaking into multiple stylesheets unweildly.

CSS Extensions, as i like to call them, or you might hear them called pre-processors, they are really meta languages

[hmm, of those three i prefer

Nathan Weizenbaum— creator of Sass, when LESS just came out, "there's reason to try out both"

Dries in his keynote

This proposed session didn't make it on the schedule, but we'll be perfecting this concept which we can't help but write about and take notes about and wax political about.

Contributing to the Community for Joy and Gain

Having experienced writing an epic tech book - 36 authors and 36 chapters and no, it did not break down nice and neat like that - we are convinced there is a better way than the traditional publishing model. Drawing on the tradition of open source free software about which we wrote, we propose donation-funded, completely free and open texts of superior quality and timeliness, marked by clean mark-up and powered by technologies of collaboration.