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Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 has been launched at last. At over 1100 pages, this book contains all you need to know to use Drupal 7 to its full potential. The book includes contributions by thirty authors, including Koumbit's Albert Albala with a chapter on automated testing.

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The countdown begins! In case you forgot, Antoine, Christopher, and I are shipping off for DrupalCon London...and we fly out in less than 10 days. We're stoked to go, and we want to make the best of our time there. So, we're soliciting your help!

I was in Boston with Koumbit designers, which were attending the Design Camp. But I wasn't there for the camp (although I did drop by to say hi), but for the Drush sprint.

Date and time: 

Friday, 17 June 2011 - 1:00pm

Koumbit is hosting a Code Sprint at our office to help developers of features create Simpletest packages to ensure that their code is scalable.

Who should come:

We've been talking about it for months. Now we're putting our money where our mouths are, and buying three tickets for DrupalCon London (August 22-26)! What's got us really stoked this time is Aegir. (“Eagur? Ayegir? WTF?” you might ask...)

It's Tuesday morning, May 10th. I'm running late, and I'm worried about a brochure design. Not just any brochure, though: it's the brochure for the Libre Graphics Meeting, a gathering of more than 100 developers, designers, and artists who write and use free (as in freedom) design software. For the developers, it's a rare opportunity to meet people they usually collaborate with over the internet.

Date and time: 

Friday, 3 June 2011 - 5:00pm

Koumbit presents a new projection of the film "Quels enfants allons nous laisser à notre planète?". This documentary by Anne Barth follows a progressive French primary school that has adopted alternative approaches to learning and communicating: non-violent communication, conflict resolution, and cooperative pedagogy

We want to re-open our ongoing discussion on self-management, or collective autonomy, with this film as background material:

Note that this article applies primarily to Drupal 6. When developing features or other modules, I often find myself making changes to the module dependencies or other aspects after my module has first been moved to the staging site. I use hook_update_N() for that. Here's how.

Date and time: 

Friday, 6 May 2011 - 5:00pm

Friends, designers, videographers, photographers and artists of all kinds: the next Koumbit 5@7 is dedicated to you! We'll be talking free and open source graphics software, and more specifically about the upcoming Libre Graphics Meetings with the organising team. The 2011 LGM will take over Montreal from the 10th to the 13th of May.

Koumbit, through funding from the Ministère des Services Gouvernementaux, has sponsored the release coordination of the final 1.0 release of Aegir, the main software behind our next-generation AlternD.com shared hosting service.