We organized a successful Drupal Workshop at Amity School of Engineering & Technology. We reached the venue well ahead of time, surprisingly there was no traffic on Saturday on NH8. The workshop was interactive and most of the students who took part in it showed interest in Drupal. Around 50 students attended this workshop. Though we planned this session for 2 hours only but it took us around 4 hours!

An Drupal workshop will be organized at ASET, Bijwasan this Saturday in association with IEEE society of the college.

Date: 28th August, 2010 (Saturday)

Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Venue: Seminar Hall, ASET

Who can attend: It is open for all the students of ASET

Topics that will be covered

1. What is Drupal? - An Introduction.
2. Why use Drupal? - Advantages of using it.
3. How to setup development environment?
4. Installation and intial configuration.
5. Create your first site! - Site Menu, Blocks and Pages.
6. Create your first blog with user comments!

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites

We currently have an opening for Drupal Developer for our company. The details of the opening is given below.

Job Description

Build websites using Drupal Content Management System. Customize drupal modules to fit client requirement. Develop custom drupal modules when required to cater to the client requirement. Efficiently use Drupal resources and provide optimum Drupal solutions.

Sparxsys Solutions is a Web Development company based in Delhi. We develop Dynamic websites using Drupal - A Powerful Content Management System. Ashish raise an important question today. He wanted to know how many companies are there in Delhi who work on Drupal just like us.

So we both agreed to do a little research on this and we will surely find out and list the number of companies who use Drupal.

We will update this blog whenever we discover any company :)

We used to struggle a lot managing multiple Projects and tasks. At any given time we have so many things to do that it was getting impossible to manage all the tasks. Ashish, our Technical Head at Sparxsys took the challenge of finding the perfect solution for solving our Project Management issues.

Image cache is one of the most powerful module.You can just do anything from this module for example: watermarks,scale,crop,overlay and many others.
Here Iam going to tell how to use image cache.
You simply need to install a module of image cache and enable them,after enabling the module create a image preset and add a action named round corners in that and specify the radius suppose 16px,17px or what ever it suits you.
Save preset and refresh to have output

Very Soon Sparxsys solutions is going to launch another major project.Which is a combination of various functionality this project has been designed with a very hard work and great concepts.
It will be soon available on timerays.com the base of the website has been kept as a newspaper website its going to have a good articles and you can easily search out for the new articles or old articles easily.It has been developed specially for users so grt user friendly website..
So hope you will check this website out!!

These days I am working on my other site www.ggsipu.info to build the database of all the colleges affiliated to GGSIPU. I created a Custom Content Type to have various fields like college address, phone, fax, email, rating, etc. During the counselling time the students wants to compare various colleges based on various parameters like infrastructure, campus and other things. Now I wanted to create a view where a table is shown with the names of the colleges in the header and these parameters on rows.

This views snippet allows you to render a tableview with columns and rows switched. Suppose you have the following output:

Title | Price 1 | Price 2
----------------------------
Node #1 | $10 | $20
Node #2 | $15 | $25


but what you really want is the node titles displayed in the header, and the prices as the rows:


| Node #1 | Node #2
----------------------------
Price 1 | $10 | $15
Price 2 | $20 | $25


I created a view table, but obviously it showed the college names in the rows as it is the dynamic part. I searched around a lot on drupal and google and found this amazing piece of code that transpose the rows/columns.

You just need to replace YOURTHEME with the name of the theme and VIEWNAME with the view name and that's it!

Internet Explorer does not display transparent PNG images, there is a drupal module "pngfix" to fix this.

Image without installing pngfix

Image after installing pngfix

Step to enable PNGFIX Module and its configuration.

1. Upload the Module "pngfix" to your Drupal Modules directory
2. Enable the Module