Drupal

Hurrah! The Drupal Association has announced that the next Drupalcon will be held in Szeged in Hungary on August 27-30, 2008!

Follow the announcements at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/ and there's also a feed at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/blog/feed

Four days and counting, Barcamp Manchester UK is almost upon us, time to write talks, prepare slides, shuffle contact cards and take a shave!

As a Barcamp virgin, I don't know quite what to expect other than what I've read on the Barcamp Manchester Wiki
"You turn up with a talk, you fight for a place on the board, and then you get on with it."
Really? People fight to stand up in front of other people and speak out loud? Scary stuff!

And with a loud trumpet blast, Drupal 6.0 is released - http://drupal.org

Good news! menusandblocks.co.uk (aka James Panton and Chris Maiden) are running a Drupal workshop at Manchester Digital Development Agency on Wednesday 9th April 2008.

Who's it for? Anyone interested in getting the most out of Drupal! It will be suitable for site administrators, designers and also developers who need to learn the Drupal way.

There's a shiny new release of Drupal 6 just around the corner (RC3, the final release candidate came out earlier this week), complete with a new installer making what was simple process in 5, an even simpler process in 6. Other new key features include:

• Support for OpenID.
• A re-written menu system that boasts increased performance alongside other speed enhancements in the core code.
• Improvements to theming, it's now even easier to make Drupal look how you want it to.
• Multi-lingual support out of the box.

The DUKNWUG meets on Wednesday 20th February 2008, 7.00pm at MDDA Manchester for another gripping instalment of Drupal stuff!

Here's the upcoming link, see you there...

MySQL are running a free webinar on Thursday January 31st 2008 at 4pm GMT - for more details and to sign up go to http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-94.html

Interested in Drupal?
Want to meet other Drupal enthusiasts?
Live in the North West?

Drupal NWUKUG features expert help and demonstrations.

Admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.

We plan to have at least two "demos" with time for questions and chat with the option of moving on to a pub for refreshment!

We meet every third Wednesday of the month at MDDA - Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester, England M1 6ED at 7pm - see you there!

We had another great evening on Wednesday at North West Drupal User group with some new faces appearing from as far away as Leeds. Steve very graciously offered to do his presentation another time as it seemed more appropriate to break into small groups and do some hands on Drupal Q&A

So all in all the group is going from strength to strength! Thanks to Steve who wrote some kind words about his first visit and to everyone who came along.

Quite often you need to display a list of nodes filtered by a date. A common scenario is you'll have an "events" content type and you only want to display events that haven't already taken place.

So you've created your content type and added a date field using CCK. Your view is set up to filter on "event_date is greater than or equal to now()". This should work just fine, if in your event_date field settings, you've included hour, minute and second granularity.