PariSoMa is a co-working space in San Franncisco. Some of the people that work there are hosting a drupal meet-up tonight. I took my bike on the train and road it to their loft space to hear Chris Bryant give a presentation on a module he and his brother developed called 'Patterns'. I will be live blogging it here, pretty much just as an exercise for myself since no one is really refreshing this page.

Patterns by Gravitek Labs

•as far as I know from Chris explaning to me, Patterns is basically a good user interface for the concept of 'install profiles'.
•4 of us from last months meet-up, 6 new
•guy from lynda.com, graphic app training vids, is here going to be producing 6-7 hours of drupal training.

Chris starts...[I am mixing in my own context]
•every drupal site is very different in the way it is set up, from a common core
•[The history of install profiles is that it became a very needed, but hacky way to automate getting particular types of sites up and running very fast, before doing the fine tuning.]
•[these guys are on the bleeding edge of development for drupal.] asked themselves how to make it better, more manageable solutions.
•drupal is all about best practices. the whole community constantly changes it's best practices by virtue, [it is a social process of meritocracy; what works , flys]
•drupal.org/project/drush: a command line tool for installing, interacting with drupal
•lots of different install profiles. they limited as to what you can do with an install profile
•Chris is in a way, promoting the project to bring developers and eyes around it. He uses the title 'Us'
•patterns is probably pretty rough right now, and Chris is taking a rish and putting himself out there and asking for help based on his presentation on the idea.
•He is displaying the code of the module to actually look at the logic of the module. the module consists of module files and custom code making them do things...
•discussed on distribution group
•[he seems to be using firefox to view everything. he is browsing the web, but also his local files(code, file system, etc??]
•uses token module to replace information
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