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The 3rd Annual Middle East Studies Conference

October 7-9, 2010

College of Arts and Humanities
California State University, Fresno

Keynote Address
Dr. Nancy Gallagher
Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East
October 7, 2010, 5 pm
Peters Building 191

Symposium
"East" Meets "West": Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Economics and the Islamic Civilization
October 8, 2010, 10:30– 12:30 pm
Peters Building 191

Ensemble
UC Santa Barbara Middle East Ensemble
October 9, 2010, 8 pm
Concert Hall

Contact
Dr. Sasan Fayazmanesh

USU Productions Clothing Drive

Done with your back to school shopping?

Looking to get rid of your old or unwanted clothing?

Donate it!

All donated items will go to the Bulldog Pantry

Now running through Friday, September 17, 2010

Drop Off Your Donations at:
University Student Union Recreation Center
University Student Union Lounge
Student Involvement Office at USU 306
Student Recreation Center
So start cleaning out those closets!

For more information call 278-2741

Constitution Day
California State University, Fresno
Friday, September 17, 2010
Satellite Student Union
10:00-11:45am

Panel Discussion:
Obamacare: Landmark Legislation or Dead on Arrival?

Panelists:
Dr. Yishaiya Abosch, Political Science Department
Dr. Jeff Cummins, Political Science Department
Dr. Tom Holyoke, Political Science Department
Professor Jeffrey G. Purvis, San Joaquin College of Law

Cosponsored by the College of Social Sciences, Student Affairs,
and San Joaquin College of Law

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Nimat R. Davis
Administrative Support Coordinator

Got Plagiarism???

One solution: require students to attend plagiarism workshops developed by Professor Judith Scott and Dr. Ida M. Jones.

Workshops for the Fall 2010 Semester

Thursday, September 9, from 9-10am in IT 101
Friday, September 10, from 8-9am in IT 101
Monday, October 11, from 8-9am in IT 101
Tuesday, October 12, from 10-11am in IT 101
Wednesday, November 17, from 8-9am in IT 101
Thursday, November 18, from 9-10am in IT 101

Debugging is incredibly powerful, but setting it up for Drupal in Eclipse can be a pain. How about a step-by-step?

Coming from a .NET background, I love the Visual Studio debugger. I can stop code execution at any time and look at the values of any of the variables. There's none of this dumping huge arrays to the web page and examining the output. I've wanted to set up a debugger for Drupal with Eclipse for a long time now, and setup instructions vary wildly. Here's my take on it.

You will need:

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In my current Drupal development environment, I run an entire Debian server stack (LAMP + Memcache + Varnish, etc) inside of a VirtualBox virtual machine. On those frustration-laden occasions when I need to fire up the debugger, I use MacGDBp to connect to the virtual machine. Here's how I configure them. (If you just want to configure MacGDBp for debugging with MAMP or OS X's Apache, you may want to read an earlier article, and then check out the updates for Snow Leopard.

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Pantheon Demonstration Screencast and Early Customer Program

Thanks to all of you waiting patiently while we are heads-down building Pantheon.

We’re just back from Copenhagen, where we gave a sneak peek at what we’ve been up, and we wanted to share that demo with you as well. You can watch our screencast here:

Pantheon Copenhagen Demo Screencast from Pantheon on Vimeo.

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Finally, we've been able to collect all the movies and edit them together. Unfortunately the quality isn't great in the first few minutes, but it's getting better and I hope you'll enjoy watching it.

Thanks to our "camera guys" - David Mollière and Peter Stumpf (that as it turns out, is really working for the UN and uses OG for that!)

For those who want too see the technical stuff from the session I gave should follow this link. I hope this will encourage people o try out Organic groups for Drupal 7 and help in making it a great module.

This post assumes that you are familiar with the unix command line. If you are not then I recommend the video from Addison Berry session “The command line is your friend” from DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010.

I have something of a passion/obsession with removing annoying obstacles in my every day tasks. I want good tools that are adapted to the way I like to work. Here follow my best tips for making the command line a pleasant place to get work done.

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Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions have quickly become an integral and essential feature of the evolving Drupalcon format. The open BoF format provides a platform for participatory discussions and focused collaborative work sessions. For many topics not included in the official Drupalcon schedule, this format is much more appropriate.

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Git bisect is a powerful automated tool for searching deep into a project's history. Instead of searching for relevant commit messages (git log) or patches (git log -S), bisect actually allows you to run a functional test on each revision until the first bad commit is identified. (Okay, it doesn't test every revision, it performs a binary search, which results in at most log2(N) tests. This allows a relatively large history to be searched quickly.)

The test can be done interactively, with the human performing each check, or mechanically if you can supply a testing script. Randy Fay has done a nice screencast on the interactive method; this post will instead focus on mechanizing the process.

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Tigerfish is hiring again, and this time, we want you if you're a Drupal developer OR designer!

Here's a great chance to work with a passionate bunch of Drupal-istas in Cheltenham. We love making Drupal sites, but there aren't enough of us to get everything done, so we need someone like you!

We're taking on a designer and a developer, and both are potentially immediate starts. If you're an agency, thanks, but we don't want to hear from you. Otherwise, head over to look at the jobs and come join us!

After having seen DrupliBacon and DrupliCake (there are other great adaptations of the Druplicon as well!), I decided I wanted to get some creative juices flowing this weekend. I present, DrupliGolf!

Drupligolf is the result of a round of golf, an addiction to Drupal, and a love for the best OSS mascot in existence. (The latter reason will definitely strike a chord with anybody who's shared a drink with the Druplicon in #drupal... and actually drank).

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Happy Autumn everyone! Several days ago I got a question from one of drupal users about „How to output drupal taxonomy terms separated by vocabulary”. By default, Drupal outputs all terms despite of their vocabulary in one list, which isn’t great at all. On the output we want to get something like this:

Now I will explain you how to achieve this.Read on →

Continuing from Form API Changes for Drupal 7, Part 1: $form_state changes.

One of the many pleasant improvements to the Drupal Form API is that AJAX Forms are now really easy. Really easy. We used to call them AHAH forms, and the concept was the same, but they were so complicated that few people attempted them. In D7 we even changed the name to distance ourselves from "AHAH" :-)

In Drupal 6 you had to make a menu entry in hook_menu() that pointed to an AJAX callback handler that was complete black magic. (See a sanitized example.) People did this part differently, and it was hard to figure out the right way. (If you're doing D6 AHAH, the gory details and resources are here.)

In Drupal 7 there is none of that. But we still have to start with the basics so that you'll understand what's going on:

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OK, so there were some things in Your Theme to My Module that weren’t perfect. For example, “power ballade” isn’t really an accepted term in the English language. (Yet.) Q: What to do about it? A: Submit a patch!

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I have been using Drupal Lightbox2 module (http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2) for more than 2 years. BTW, it looks too buggy now a day when combine with other new modules, e.g. jquery_update, jquery_ui, img_assist, and so on. Its time for me to search for another replacement solution.

There is a complete comparison between different Lightbox-type modules in http://drupal.org/node/266126. Typically base on the usage statistics Thinkbox (http://drupal.org/project/thickbox) should be a good Lightbox2 replacement, but as its project page mentioned Colorbox (http://drupal.org/project/colorbox) would be a recommended upgrade path in Drupal 7.x. So I give a try with it.

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Three photos of foxtails in a field, taken over the course of about a half hour. These are presented in order chronologically. What a difference the light makes!

Shortly before sunset.

At sunset.

Shortly after sunset.

I love the patterns and textures of grasses, and I've noticed that I'm frequently drawn to that pattern and texture (and sometimes color) as the subject itself.

In hopes of exploring this a bit more, I've created a new photoset entitled De of Graminoids, which is now posted in the Photography section of the site. This includes some of my recent photos of grasses, as well as some from the archive.

I've recently returned from an amazing time at Drupalcon Copenhagen, and wanted to highlight some of my favorite sessions, events, and departing thoughts (this also serves as preparation for the impossible task of summarizing such an epic and comprehensive conference in 15 minutes for this week's Portland Drupal group). While I can't cover them all, the complete list of videos from Drupalcon Copenhagen can be found here.

Jeremy Keith and the Design of HTML 5

Jeremy Keith, not only touched on the core functionality and concepts of HTML 5, but also spent a great deal of time focusing on the history and reasoning behind the design.

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Fresno State

It's that time again... yearly performance reviews! In the spirit of social media, we’re crowd-sourcing our review. Please take the time to give Pep and I will give some feedback about this Facebook page and help us by sharing this link with your friends http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Facebook20