CDMUG is set to jet @ the upcoming HostingCon conference at Navy Pier. The Drupal CMS Open Source Project will be represented by your local Chicago Drupal MUG members from exhibitor booth #820. The purpose of the event is to promote offering Drupal to all hosting providers as a default install; As well as help users find the best Drupal hosting companies. The Hostingcon Show Guide is now available.

What
Drupal Summer WebStudio

When
Thu Jul 17, 2008 @ 10am – 6pm

Where
i.c.stars
212 West Superior, Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60610

Description
One day session for building websites in Drupal; Invite friends, colleagues, community partners

i.c.stars|* is also signing up presenters for the WebStudio. Your presentation must be Drupal related ie: HowTo Install and Use a Module of your Choice or How To Build A Photo Gallery using Drupal, etc. Contact Eric Lannert to volunteer or sign up to attend.

Last night's meetup was great, Thanks again to Matthew and Kyle for organizing and I.C. Stars for hosting!

I like the energy having quite a few new people (and some we haven't seen for a bit) at the meetup last night. We had some great discussion about what we could do for meetup content.... Not to put any more work on our organizers, but I think we can come up with a standard Agenda that can accommodate all the ideas I heard last night. Here is my attempt:

• Introductions and Agenda additions

Microsoft is promoting an alternative to AJAX known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML (ARAX). At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers, Job Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, said that as Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application environment is adopted, it will provide Ruby developers with a way to deliver AJAX-style applications without having to use JavaScript. Lam says using ARAX will allow Ruby developers to not have to use tools such as the Ruby JavaScript (RJS) utility for generating JavaScript code for the client.

This group is dedicated to solutions and approaches for high traffic, high performing Drupal sites. As such, it will deal with a lot of information around the rest of a typical Drupal "stack" -- the operating system, web server, database, and PHP tweaks that combine to support the Drupal application.

I found this group while researching for tips about Drupal and Cloud Computing.

Ajaxian.com has a post today mentioning the release of Firebug 1.2 beta that is Firefox 3 compatible - HOORAY!

- - - Announcement received today from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC): - - -

WONDERFUL WORLD OF DRUPAL MODULES (5/23)

Save the Date: Friday, 5/23 (1:30p-3:00p); Burnham Hall 308.

This is the 2nd in a series of talks by Leo Klein on the popular content management system Drupal.

Leo will discuss some of Drupal's most important modules, what they do and how to use them. Remember, in Drupal, it's the Modules that provide all the great features - so this ought to be a worthwhile discussion.

Please RSVP to: lrk@uic.edu
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Successfully, I spent the last day trying to enable Clean URL's on a Drupal 5.7 remote server (media temple (dedicated virtual). I want to thank all CDMUG members who pulled together with me to investigate this by phone, email, and IM. Im walking away from this with a new appreciation for linux guru's and the ssh command line. With that said - Im going to provide a 5 step hack to enable Clean URL's. I'd only try this hack as a last resort; I put a few links below that have more tips on the subject.

Step 1. Download this x.htaccess file