Steve Krueger

So Drupalcamp Vancouver is right around the corner and I'm sitting here preparing for 2 of my sessions: Designers Guide to jQuery and Drupal Theming. Both sessions are focused towards beginners as well as designers, but as always, all are welcome to attend and participate in discussion.

The jQuery session will be back-to-back with the Developers Guide to jQuery lead by a collegue of mine, Katherine Bailey. I will be covering the very basics of jQuery for web designers who are interested in utilizing the potential of jQuery but are over-come by the learning curve of having to learn a programming language. Believe me, it's easy! I'll also be doing a live tutorial as well as some simple implementations of jQuery animations within Drupal.

Our Drupal Theming session, lead by Mark Yuasa and myself (and maybe Hubert), will be an overview of taking a design to a functioning drupal theme. If you happened to miss our theming session in January and wanted to attend, this will be the one to be at.

Hope to see some new faces and meet new people! See you then.

Update:

Here's my post on the slides from this presentation. Please leave comments and questions in that post and not this one.
http://stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquery-drupalcamp-vancouver-presentation

So heads up for all that are interested in attending Drupalcamp in Vancouver. The details bellow:

Date: May 9-10, 2008
Where: Friday sessions at SFU Wosk Centre for Dialouge (Hasting and Seymour), Saturday sessions at Workspace (21 Water St., Gastown)
Who:You and about 80 other people (first come, first served - stay tuned for registration mid-April)
How Much: About $20 probably* - that'll get you 2 lunches and an eco-friendly t-shirt (*subject to change)

Hope to meet and see some of you awesome Vancouver Drupalists!

Full Post @ Drupal.org 

For those of you who are interested: collegues Mark Yuasa, Hubert Florin, as well as myself will be carrying out this month's Vancouver Drupalers meeting on how to take a design draft to a functional Drupal theme.

Here's some more info regarding the event: 

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday January 31, 2008 at Raincity Studios
(the old Bryght offices) for the Vancouver League of Drupalers January
meeting. This month's feature presentation: Drupal Theming, From Design Draft to Theme
with Mark Yuasa, Hubert Florin and Steve Krueger of Raincity Studios.
They'll talk about the practical tasks involved in bringing your theme
to fruition.

It's snowing! Can't wait until I can strap on my boots and head for the hills. All this fresh pow-pow is making me jittery.

Last year was pretty dead for me since I was stuck in school all year. I'm planning on heading up to Whistler for the holidays to spend some time with my girlfriend and some friends. If you ever need a ride up to Whistler or Blackcomb, check out snowbus.ca. They offer one-way and return tickets to and from Whistler. Prices range from $23.96 one-way, and $42.92 for a return trip. They also offer membership pricing which comes with a couple of nice perks.

Another great discount that I signed up for this year was an EDGE card. You can get killer discounts on lift tickets if you sign-up early enough. If you plan on going up regularily, you should definately check it out.

I've checked the local mountains and here's the run down:

Tonight's the monthly Vancouver Drupal meetup. This will be my first and have yet to find out what goes down. This month's discussion:

"This month's feature presentation: Sugar and Spice vs. Puppy Dog Tails - A Discussion on Gender and Technology with Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. Lauren discusses expanding your audience by breaking down gender assumptions. As well as providing website examples focused on gender inclusiveness, she'll discuss her and her clients' experiences designing Drupal websites."