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Last weekend the Florida Drupal community hosted its ninth annual Florida DrupalCamp (FLDC) at Florida Technical College in Orlando. It was a great success. At this point, we (the organizers) have a pretty good idea how to put on this event. (Since a good number of us have been involved in all nine iterations, (and all still seem to like each other!) some aspects of the camp organizing process are on veritable auto-pilot. If you're a camp organizer, you know what goes into securing sponsors and a location, spreading the word, finding presenters, arranging for swag and catering, etc… For

Miriam Webster defines effort as conscious exertion of power: hard work If you want to learn Drupal, you need to put forth some effort, and if you want to do it properly, get ready to exert some power for months, not days. People ask us all the time if they can get a job right out of our Drupal Career Online program. The truth is, it depends on how much hard work you put in to get out ready enough for an internship or junior position. Whether it’s Drupal or anything else, learning something and being able to apply it

We’re taking it up a couple notches this year down in Orlando for the 9th Florida DrupalCamp! We're expanding in every dimension we can find - highlighted by an opening day (Friday) of full-day workshops followed by two days (Saturday and half-day Sunday) of sessions! Amazing Trainings In previous years, we’ve had concurrent trainings on Saturdays and some sprinting on Sunday. This year, we changed it up: Friday will be a full training day including workshops on: Beginning React JS - taught by John Tucker Docker for Development with Drupal - taught by Lisa Ridley Introduction to Drupal 8 -

The 9th annual Florida DrupalCamp (FLDC) will be held February 17,18, and 19th, 2017 in Orlando, Florida; DrupalEasy is proud to be a sponsor. We’re super excited to announce Megan Sanicki as our second featured speaker. Megan is the Executive Director of the Drupal Association (DA), and will talk about all the things that the DA does to promote and serve Drupal. Megan joins Helena Zubkow as a featured speaker for FLDC. Helena is an accessibility expert for Lullabot and will be leading a double-length session on how to make Drupal sites accessible. The third (and final) featured speaker will

###Really good content in the wrong format. Drupal 8 Development Cookbook, written by Matt Glaman is full of useful information about Drupal 8 site building and development - and a worthy addition to anyone's Drupal library. Unfortunately, the "cookbook" format of the book seems to subtract, rather than add, to the usually well-explained concepts throughout. The book covers an impressive array of topics: Everything from setting up a local environment to many of the technical details of the Entity API. No matter what your skill level with Drupal, there is likely to be something in this book of interest. Having

DrupalEasy is proud to announce another cavalcade of training events in the coming months, both online and in-person. We have numerous opportunities for you to take advantage of our proven Drupal 8 module and theme development courses as well as our flagship technical education program for those seeking comprehensive training to become developers; the 12-week Drupal Career Online. The primary instructor for all courses is Mike Anello (ultimike), an expert instructor and experienced, practicing Drupal developer. All DrupalEasy training is taught by only expert developers to ensure that lessons are taught accurately, reflect best practices, and draw on how real-world

When it comes to serving their constituents with effective online access, the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System keeps getting it right. From the time IPERS was first deciding to shed their Dreamweaver framework a few years ago for something more robust, to ensuring that they have well-trained internal Drupal talent; the IPERS Application Programming Services and Communication teams rocked the process and aced the outcome by sticking with best practices. The IPERS APS and Communication teams chose Drupal through an extremely efficient process, focused on what other agencies had already put in place, how the transition went, and how the

Whether you are with an organization switching to Drupal, or you have chosen to make Drupal the focus of your web developer career, your future can be a lot of different things depending on your goals, your focus and your personality. It’s never easy shifting your career, and with Drupal, there are no official, defined developer career recipes to guide you. The good news is, the ingredients are out there. Within the open-sourcey, especially welcoming, social melting pot that is the Drupal Community, there are a lot of career resources , organizations, individuals, advice and success stories that you can

Gregg Marshall's Mastering Drupal 8 Views is one of the (I can only assume) many Drupal 8-focused books that will be released in the coming months. It is a very good deep dive into many of the hidden corners of the Views module, albeit with an interesting format. Not completely structured like a typical how-to software book, Gregg takes a bit more of a novel approach (pun intended) - he takes the reader on a journey through the Views module through the eyes of Lynn, a small business owner (Lynn's cat and Drupal consultant also have prominent roles). While some

It’s almost summer, and at DrupalEasy, that means it is almost Intern Season! Our Spring Drupal Career Online class is three-fourths of the way to graduation, and we have just three budding Drupalists who are looking for work experience through internships (the others are already spoken for!) If you’ve got too much to do, and not enough capacity to do it, an intern might be just the ticket through our (Work Experience) WE Drupal Program . We love sowing the Drupal Community with well-trained new talent, all of whom have already devoted hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars, and more

A few weeks ago, the Florida Drupal community (and more than a few honored out-of-town guests) gathered together for our annual event. This was the 8th Florida DrupalCamp, so the camp definitely had a familiar feel. As we normally do, we like to take a close look back and discuss what worked, what didn't, and how we can improve future events. This year's event was smaller than previous years - we had approximately 40 fewer attendees (216 total) that last year. The general feeling is that this was due to a few factors, including our own laziness (we didn't get

We're pleased to announced that our Introduction to Drupal 8 Module Development full-day workshop has been selected as one of the official trainings for DrupalCon New Orleans! We’re joining forces with Ted Bowman at Six Mile Tech to create and present brand new curricullum for Drupal 8 module development. Module development is more powerful than ever with Drupal 8. Object-orientation, the maturity of Drupal's various APIs, Drupal 8's new underlying Symfony (and other) components, and the emergence of Drupal Console means that developing for Drupal 8 requires new knowledge. Our workshop is designed to introduce existing Drupal developers as well

If you look at what the experts are forecasting for jobs, it’s hard to find a list of promising careers that doesn’t count web developer in the top 20. The US Department of Labor puts web developer in the Bright Outlook Occupations category, which means it is “expected to grow rapidly in the next several years, will have large numbers of job openings, or is a new and emerging occupation.” Online finance magazine The Street puts web designers at #17 on the list of "Careers to Pursue if You Want the Best Work-Life Balance". US News slots web developer at

Florida DrupalCamp is coming up on March 5th, and DrupalEasy is happy to be involved as a sponsor and organizer. This year's event will be better than ever, with three amazing featured speakers flying in from three different countries! Karen Stevenson, Morten DK, and Jesus Manuel Olivas will be presenting double-length sessions on the lastest Druapl 8-related topics. * Morten DK is a major contributor to Twig in Drupal 8, and has been fighting extraneous markup in Drupal for years. He will be speaking on Drupal 8 theming. * Karen Stevenson is the Director of Technology at Lullabot. She is