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From 3 to 5 May the Drupal business days were held in Vienna. On the first day there was a CXO event. You can read a summary of that in a previous blog post. In this post I will give a summary of the sessions on 4 and 5 May.

Last Thursday there was another Drupal CXO event. It was the first day of the Drupal business days in Vienna. Microsoft was the host for the event and the first item on the program was a tour of the their office in Vienna. I have to say it was a pretty cool place with plants on the walls and as main asset a slide!

This weekend the first Frontendunited conference was organized in Amsterdam. This conference is the successor of Drupal Design camp. It was a great weekend with lots of interesting presentations on a wide range of subjects. 

This weekend there was another Drupal CxO meeting in Amsterdam. After the big success of the first meeting in Brussels this was the second event of this type in Europe. This time with a focus on development, business and quality assurance processes in Drupal shops.

January 27-28-29 there will be a follow up of the Drupal CXO days in Amsterdam. The event will again be sponsored by Microsoft. The first DRupal CXO event in Brussels was a great success and I'm sure this one will be too.

This meetup aims to facilitate peer-to-peer learning about business processes between leadership of Drupal shops. What are the best practices? What kind of processes do you need? How do you grow from a entrepreneur centered culture to a process driven culture?

First off in our Drupal Template Snippets series is this HOWTO. You can add a custom menu in your page regions with a block, but sometimes you might want to make sure the menu is always there. And you do not want to worry about someone accidentally removing the menu block from your site. Well, here is a snippet to add a custom made menu to your page.tpl.php.

Though a lot of the Drupal community is using Git, I don't think everyone knows the tools I want to write about in this post. I can tell you, I cannot live without theme anymore:

• Git flow
• Git completion
• Bash prompt with Git information

Now that Drupal 7 is released we can look forward to Drupal 8. What can we do better? What features do we need for Drupal 8? This was the main topic of the keynote of Dries Buytaert at Drupalcon Chicago on March 8th.

Drupal 8 should be ready for the future of course, and the future according to Dries is:

 

Lately a new project was launched on drupal.org, which purpose is to provide hook templates for the Eclipse IDE (http://drupal.org/project/eclipse). After installing the templates in Eclipse, I was very happy not to have to lookup the Drupal api pages for these hooks anymore. As soon as I began using these templates, I wished that I had such templates for non core hooks as well (the apachesolr module hooks for instance). Luckily, it is very easy to create these templates in Eclipse yourself.

At Triquanta we are preparing the transition from subversion to git. We choose git first of all because Drupal is changing to git as well. But the main reason is that we wanted to be able to branch more easily and that we wanted a decentralized system.