Here are the notes I took from my first NYC Drupal Meetup.  I highly recommend the group.  I learned an enormous amount, I got to see the legendary Earl Miles, and the space where it’s held is nothing short of breathtaking (think Hudson River views + floor to ceiling windows).    

Drupal NYC Meetup 5/13/09   

 Speakers:

• Ezra Gildesgame
• Earl Miles (merlinofchaos)
• George Weiner, CTO of dosomething.org

 Nodequeue The nodequeue module can:

• Keep track of how to notify users
• Be used for granular permissions:
  • Ex: separate editors for designers, developers, admins
• Works very well with Nodes and Panels
• You can create Views specific to one queue
• Recently added international support
• You can have a MAX SIZE to the nodequeue
  • Once you’ve exceeded the max, the oldest story will be kicked out.
  • That’s why nodequeue works so well for lead stories
• USE CASE: Read more »
  

Drupal is consistently blowing me away with its vast and eager community.  Now, in my quest to understand Drupal Theming, I have discovered an easy and powerful tool made by the folks over at PSD2CSS.  It’s a free service that allows you to upload a PSD file, and download a zip file containing a new folder you can simply pop into your Drupal install, and Bam!  Instant Theme.

Make sure you drop the entire folder (sites/) into the root of your Drupal install directory