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Overview This project provides an API to more easily build hierarchical taxonomy trees. I used this code on a few projects where I had to programmatically create large taxonomy hierarchies. I got tired having to sift through old code to reuse this functionality, so I committed it to Drupal.org in hopes it will help someone else out as well. The goal of this project is to simplify the process of creating hierarchies so they can easily be built by passing structured arrays to the API functions. Further development of this module will happen on an as-needed basis or through patches submitted by the community. Maintainer Taxonomy Builder API is developed and maintained by Chris Pliakas. Original development of this module was sponsored by CommonPlaces e-Solutions, LLC. Follow Chris on Twitter: @cpliakas Follow CommonPlaces on Twitter: @commonplaces

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I have to admit that I've got it pretty good in the website spam department. The Mollom project, started by some of the same folks who started Drupal, uses content analysis to keep spam users from registering accounts on my site, leaving blog & forum comments, and using my site's contact form to spam me via email as well. The only problem that I've really seen is the rise of spammers who will post blog comments containing text from the blog post itself, almost entirely unchanged, along with one or more links to their sites. Content-based analysis is of no use here, since the majority of the comment is actual text that I would want on my site -- after all, I blogged it! Until now, I've been following all blog comments to my site via built-in RSS feeds, noticing spam comments some time after they were posted, and going back and deleting them. Drupal allows for comment moderation, but I want comments to go out there right away. read more

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Advanced Comment Trigger provides a new trigger category allowing automatic unpublishing of comments based on more fine-grained criteria than the default "new comment added" trigger. Currently, this module can unpublish comments based on the number of hyperlinks in them. It can also exempt this restriction for certain user roles or comments on certain content types. For example, all site admins could be allowed to post comments with hyperlinks without restriction, or all comments on forum topics could be allowed. Future plans for this module include additional actions, such as emailing the post author or site administrator(s) or blocking the commenter's user account. Users of this module might also be interested in the included exported View, which can provide an RSS feed of all of a site's moderated comments. To use, install the Views module, go to admin/build/views/import, and paste in the view source. Then view the RSS feed at comments/moderated/feed on your site.

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In preparation for the Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities panel at SXSW, which I'll be speaking at on Saturday, I posed the following question on Twitter and in #drupal: Which Simpsons character best represents the #Drupal community and why? And the winner, in terms of number of responses, was... Lisa Simpson Thinks she has all the answers to save the world but is so pathetically naive she never will. Yet you love her anyway. - TheRealCrell Underestimated, Intelligent, resourceful. With a wonderful singing voice. - bear_feet She is open minded and usually diplomatic :) - JCL324 Logical, but not so popular. - DaftNinja And here were the others. Feel free to comment too with your own. :)read more

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Wolfgang Ziegler (aka "fago") talks about the Rules module, and how it can be used by non-programmers to set up a series of events that are executed after certain conditional triggers happen. Fago claims that this is a more robust solution that Drupal's core trigger module functionality. The Rules module in Drupal 6 is an evolution from the Workflow-NG module in Drupal 5, but renamed to reflect that it can do much more than just workflow. There was also a Summer of Code project by klausi that integrated into the Rules package as the Rules Forms module. Fago also talks about the future of Rules and how he plans on improving the APIs so that it's more extensible to add in loops and new features, and to have Features module integration with rules so that it's possible to and re-use rules.

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This module use the global Solace API filter form to enable site-wide search form using the filter UI. Important notice This module is a proof of concept of Solace API module usage. It might be really buggy, patches are welcome, feature requests too. Dependencies This module is based on Solace API module. read more

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This module extends the nodereference fields by providing a filter based searching engine in order to automatically fill it using the Solace API filters features as backend. This means you can attach a SolR filter instance to node reference fields. Then, any node owner can enable and configure a complex SolR query using the Solace API simple filter form in order to configure the content the would want to see in their node reference. Notice that this module only feeds node reference fields using on site content, so you might want to use this module side by side to the Feeds module. read more

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This module provides a full API to create SolR complex filters, using a nice AJAX (using AHAH) form. The UI was designed to be used by end-users quite easily, nothing such as views can do, but simple and quite efficient. This module only provides needed API for other modules. If you are an end user, please look at this module list: Solace Node Reference : this module extends the feature by adding a complex nodereference fields auto-fill using the Solace filters features as backend. Solace Search : this module use the global Solr Assistant filter form to enable site-wide search form using the filter UI. read more

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You still have a week before you can personalize your conference schedule, but the time to sign up for one of the DrupalCon pre-conference events is now. This year, we have added all-day trainings to the already robust DrupalCon offerings.

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The Drupal module Nodewords is a module that many people have come to love-to-hate - its SEO features are second to none, but a few buggy releases have left a sour taste with many developer.read more

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Project announcement coming soon...

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DAI using Open Atrium to help their GIS teams in Pakistan communicate Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), one of the leading international development contractors, has deployed Open Atrium to help its GIS team in Islamabad communicate with its office in Peshawar and headquarters back in Bethesda on a capacity building project. In addition to improving team communications, they decided to use Open Atrium to boost the project's transparency for USAID and to get a sustainability win by using open source software that can stay behind with the local team in Pakistan long after the mapping project is completed. Below is a short Q&A I had with Andrew Ross from DAI's GIS office about his work and how Open Atrium is helping. Can you tell us about your project and your team in Pakistan?read more

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As the web evolves, we evolve with it. The introduction smart-phones to the general public, in a mass, together with lower costs of cellular internet connectivity and availability of wireless networks, all lead to an increasing demand to supply mobile application, to go with a website or service. iPhone started the storm, and Android is catching up rapidly. Other mobile devices are not staying behind. Few years back we were amazed by our possibility to be mobile, while staying accessible and reachable. Now, the net goes with us, anywhere we go, we are not only mobile, we are in constant connection to information, friends and services. All this information is usually saved on a server somewhere. On this server each one has an identity, assets that are associated with this identity, friends, pictures, preferences etc. Sounds familiar? Right - all of the above are native in Drupal.read more

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Drupal's "premier conference" is quickly approaching. This Drupal conference is known as DrupalCon and will be held in San Francisco from April 19-21, 2010. As with previous years, the unofficial theme of the conference is to "learn about all things Drupal". If the conference sessions aren't enough, the schedule is also packed with plenty of development, documentation, and training events that are being held the days prior to and following the conference. Presently over 1500 people have signed up to attend the conference. The price of attending a DrupalCon has always been reasonably priced which is one of the reasons this conference always sees a high turnout rate. If you plan on attending the conference, I would urge you to buy your tickets to DrupalCon now. Procrastinators like me have been known to wait too long to register for this conference only to find out that the maximum number of available tickets for the conference has already been reached.read more

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This is a port of the popular iCandy theme from Wordpress. The original wordpress theme was created by nischalmaniar. The drupal port was developed by Zyxware Technologies. You can report all issues related to the theme here at the issue queue and we will take it upstream with the original theme developer.

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Just a note to all kindly Drupalists and your followers. I'll be appearing at SxSw interactive to talk about Drupal in the Cloud, sporting an updated presentation which includes info on how we're using BZR to create a "cloud platform", where all that's going anyway, plus details about our forthcoming Mercury on-demand service. I am looking forward to seeing all sorts of great folks in/around the conference. If you're going to be in Austin this coming weekend, drop me a comment and let's coordinate! You can mark the session on your planner right here. For those unable to attend, there will be some video and other media, and my slides will be posted online as always. See you in the Lone Star state!

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During my last session on Drupalcamp in Barcelona I got the impression that there was a need for an updated guide on how to easily setup your own Apache Solr instance. If you want to see why you or your company would have the need for an improved search experience you can still see my presentation on slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/nickvh/drupal-apachesolrRead more

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Lullabot is looking for an experienced project manager. Responsibilities include: managing scope, deliverables, schedules, and team resources for Lullabot client and internal projects. Daily tasks would include leading daily 15 minute check-in calls for each project, tending the ticket queue and managing task lists, communicating (email/phone) with clients, and basically keeping projects on track and moving forward. Lullabot is a distributed company without a central office, so like all Lullabot jobs, this is a telecommuting position and may involve travel. Additional responsibilities include helping to write and assemble new project proposals and statements of work, though we tend to focus on bigger projects and don't take on too many projects at once. You'd be responsible for estimating and staffing projects, meeting with clients, pursuing and growing development partnerships, and coordinating the delivery of various projects. If this sounds like a lot, it is. But Lullabot is a very collaborative company so you won't be working in isolation. You'll be working with a team of highly experienced Drupal consultants and developers with excellent communication skills and a passion for their work. Ideal candidates should:read more

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....with the release of m.stubru.be the mobile site of the nr.1 public broadcast radio station "Studio Brussel". Studio Brussel, the nr. 1 radio station of the Belgian public broadcaster VRT has released last week it's mobile website using Siruna technology. read more

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Contextual Administration is intended to be a simple tool for deploying custom administrations on your site, or as an exportable within your module. In short anything you can put on a page, context_admin is a simple solution to doing so without the overhead of panels. Quick Video Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_RT33ViPRU My specific use case in creating context_admin to begin with was to give site administrators who don't have the programming know-how the ability to add traditionally developer style administration links to their site in an ad-hoc fashion. The best example of this would be adding "create new node X" or "administer node X" links to views of "node X", however once the tool was created, it became obvious rather quickly that we could do much more. read more

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A collection of views examples that can be turned on and used directly within views. You can use the views examples as-is on your site, or you can clone them and use them as a starting point for further customized views. This module is in alpha and, although I do not intend to break the module, the module is under active development and the functionality may change from day to day. Please do NOT use on a live public-facing site. Once the module is in beta in a couple weeks, this message will be removed. How to Use Enable views and views_examples modules. Go to views_examples settings page: /admin/settings/views_examples Turn on the examples you would like to try out. Some examples require additional modules which are noted. You won't be able to enable those examples until the required modules are enabled. Go to views build page: /admin/build/views. The enabled examples will be shown. Click "clone" for any example you want to edit. This is not strictly necessary (you can simply edit the example view itself) but, if you clone it instead, you will be left with the original example view for reference. Edit your cloned version and play around. Preview results of the view at the bottom of the page by choosing the display and then clicking the Preview button. Have fun!! read more

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At DrupalCon Paris, Doug Green of CivicActions shared some insights doing big Multilingual sites. He talks about some of the pain points faced with doing the site, and working with the i18n module. Other references mentioned: Locale module in Drupal 6 Properly the t() function i18nSync module included within i18n Amnesty Report Site Amnesty International site read more

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One requirement of the Archdiocese of St. Louis' website is that group administrators are able to publish and unpublish the content inside their groups, and they should also be able to schedule posts for automated publishing and unpublishing at a later time. To do this, I used the following modules: OG User Roles Scheduler Publish Content [EDIT: I'm now using the Override Node Options module rather than Publish Content - it gives more fine-grained control over visibility of node form options.] After enabling these modules, I spent a while in the Permissions page, and also created a new user role, "administer nodes." Ironically, I didn't assign the 'administer nodes' permission to this role, because doing so causes a huge mess ('administer nodes' gives waaay too much power to anyone except the site admin—it's best to leave that beast unchecked in most cases).read more

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Recently, I have been working with quite a few Drupal sites, and one of my favorite tools to use has become drush. For those of you who are not aware of it, drush is a command line utility (drush = DRUpal SHell) that makes management of a Drupal site much more bearable. Drush is a great tool to use and is quite simple to install on your system when you have admin rights to the box. However, what about those of us on shared hosting system? read more

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Over the last year, Mediacurrent has been intensively collaborating with Ad Giants, an innovative marketing company based in Dallas, Texas. Ad Giants boasts an impressive list of clients and strategic partners like T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil and business man, who has been featured on national television ads advocating an energy plan overhaul.read more

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Lightning talks on the Boxes module and a new Drupal site and its data migration The March Washington, DC Drupal meetup will be tonight (3/8) at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. After missing last month's meetup due to the snowmaggedons, it will be great to catch up with everyone. As usual there will be a round of lightning talk where anyone can take the floor and talk - for five minutes or less - on a Drupal related topic. So far two people have volunteered: Jeff will talk about the Boxes module, which produces exportable and Spaces-friendly blocks StevenC has volunteered to talk about a website he built for a local construction firm that included a data migration from a legacy MS SQL database and some complex back-end programming.read more

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BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system that enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students. BigBlueButton supports sharing of slides (PDF and PPT), video, chat, voice (using Asterisk), and desktops. It's built using over fifteen open source components, runs on Mac, Unix, and PC computers, and is backed by an open source community that cares about good design and a streamlined user experience. Source: BigBlueButton Demo, http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/ This module implements the BigBlueButton API [1]. It allows moderators to create new meetings and users to join meetings based on the role they have. Beware: Both BigBlueButton and this module are still in development. Development sponsored by erdfisch http://erdfisch.de [1] http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

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Multilingual search using Apache Solr. Details coming soon ...

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This is a rewrite of the module TinyMCE Node Picker that aims to support additional editors besides TinyMCE. In the current ALPHA release TinyMCE, FCKEditor and CKEditor are supported. Support for additional editors such as openWYSIWYG and YUI Editor will be added if there is a demand for it. Node Picker Node Picker provides a button in supported editors that displays a list of links to content. Choosing a link inserts it into the editor. The module includes template files which can be edited for your theme, but should not require theming to display correctly. It also creates two views called nodepicker_nodes and nodepicker_taxonomy which can be edited to change the results that the link picker displays. Node Picker uses a input filter for outputing future proof links. This module is a great match with Image Browser for a superior link and image handling experience. State of development Still left to do: Support for exposed filters in the UI Support for CKEditor Module settings Support multiple menus Requirements read more

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I'm working on a new framework for dropdown menus and I'm running out of ideas. So far I got: Animation on showing as well as hiding the menu (superfish only supports on-show) Automatic configurable multi-column dropdowns. When number of items in a submenu exceeds set number a submenu is 2 columns, or 3 columns. (will look like http://www.whitehouse.gov) Added support for custom easing, including the additional easing from the jQuery easing plugin and some homebrew easing*. Animated properties are configurable (widh/height/opacity) So what cool menu feature would you like to have on your next Drupal site? drop your idea in the comments! *my new and favorite dropdown easing: easeInOvershootTurbo: function (x, t, b, c, d, s) { if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158; return c*(t/=d)*t*t*((s+1)*t - s) + b; }, easeOutOvershootTurbo: function (x, t, b, c, d, s) { if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158; return c*((t=t/d-1)*t*t*((s+1)*t + s) + 1) + b; } read more

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Following some issues to integrate drush and making civicrm upgrade process accessible from script, I started looking at drush on how we can take advantage of it for civicrm, and was surprised with the ease I was able to reuse drush code to add few utilities for civicrm. Some of the utilities currently implemented are: /> read more

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This module integrates two of the most powerful Drupal modules: Views and Rules. It allows your rules to execute a view, and your views to execute rules.

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This is a placeholder for a possibly forthcoming framework for managing actions: petitions, click-to-call, etc.

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Given a list of videos tagged with a specific vocabulary, I wanted to show a view of these videos on the page of another node type (a "channel") that is also tagged with the same vocabulary. The idea is to create video channels that implicitly relate to videos by sharing taxonomy terms, instead of explicitly relating the videos to their channel (using node references for example). The videos should show on the channel's node page. read more

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The FoxyCart Integration module makes it extremely easy to quickly integrate with the FoxyCart e-commerce system. This module provides: Automatic inclusion of necessary foxycart.com css and javascript files to enable your site. Theme-able shopping cart and status blocks. Tight single-sign on integration with Drupal. Customers use their Drupal account to complete checkout with FoxyCart. FoxyCart datafeed logging. Transactions reported by FoxyCart are logged into the Drupal logging system. After installing the module, simply navigate to Administer -> FoxyCart for configuration and detailed help.

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The bane of multistep node forms are validation errors. But Drupal 7 has a cure. Not nice but a cure. Slap #access = FALSE on form elements you dont want to see in the current step and then set up the Next button with #limit_validation_errors set to the elements you are about to see. The Prev button should get an empty #limit_validation_errors. Should field validation errors bother you, you can nuke those in hook_field_attach_validate. <?php define('MYMODULE_STORY_NODE_FORM_LAST_STEP', 2); read more

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This video shows how to use the Multiple Image Upload, Views and Views Bulk Operations modules to create a "multiple image upload and tag" tool. The View used in this video is attached as a text file which can be imported into your site using the Views import tool. Bulk Uploading/Tagging images in Drupal - Imagex + VBO from Greg Knaddison on Vimeo.read more

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Integration between Privatemsg module and Views + VBO. read more

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Freelance Consulting & Work in General Well, 2010 is here, and so is March, and my blog has been pretty quiet for a while because of an insane amount of contract work that has left me with minimal time for anything outside of paid work. Drupal freelance has been VERY good to me over the last 4 months since leaving my full time employment. It was no doubt a very scary situation to be in again, but everything worked out for the best. Even the FT job that I ended up not getting that I was completely sure I wanted ended up falling apart for a reason. Freelance Consulting/Contract work is a touchy business, and not for everyone, but for me, it really is a great way to be. What mainly attracts me to it is the ability to work from home, set my own hours, and oddly enough, make a lot more money than most full time opportunities. My days of commuting to ANY office are in the past, and while I will/am still considering FT positions that allow 100% telecommute, there's no reason for me to ever want to get out of my jammies and deal with office drama again.read more

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MacHeist is up to their same tricks and have just released a new bundle. Inside that bundle is a product called MacJournal that has tempted me. So, I have downloaded a 15 day trial and started to play with it.

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I'm no fan of Flash. Even the name annoys me :-) But I feel that recreating its capabilities using the trio HTML/CSS/JavaScript (isn't there an acronym for these 3 interrelated technologies?) is often non-trivial. A case in point: I recently added to Sheetnode the feature of editing the spreadsheet fullscreen. While every Flash component has a fullscreen option, I couldn't even find a jQuery component that implements this functionality. read more

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Google supports the OAuth standard for API authentication. By using this module, web applications can access a user's Google Apps account without needing the user's login details. The user logs into the site with their Drupal username and password. Once authenticated, they are then immediately redirected to the Google login page where they must confirm (or reject) that the website is allowed to use an authorization token to access their Google account. Administrators of Google Apps Premier and Education editions can also use a special type of OAuth, called 2-legged OAuth. Unlike standard OAuth, the user is not actually authenticated with Google, but the site is able to act on their behalf to pull in or update their account data. Currently this authentication is implemented, but no APIs make use of it yet. For more details, see http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html Google offers two libraries for handling authentication: one using the OAuth open standard, and a second interface called AuthSub, developed prior to the release of the OAuth standard. The Google Authentication for Web Applications implements AuthSub. This module implements the OAuth interface. read more

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yaSt is a Framework subtheme. yaSt is a Facebook look theme, clean and minimalist. yaSt es un subtema de Framework, limpio y minimalista con un aspecto parecido a Facebook Features yaSt features: Sidebars can be placed on several modes: only left bar, only right bar, left and right bars, two bars on the left or two bars on the right. Sidebars and container width can be customized. Support for: Logo Name Slogan Mission Node user picture Comment user picture Search Favicon Secondary links Primary links Regions: Left sidebar Right sidebar Header Footer Content Suckerfish primary links menu (dropdowns menus) read more

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Description Need to add a list of admin OpenIDs to many websites and not lose sanity while maintaining that list across all servers? This module is for you. You can still maintain arbitrary list of OpenIDs on each site, but the framework ensures a list of allowed and banned OpenIDs (for the "admin" user), in addition to the local list. This tool is for Drupal service-providers that maintain many websites and need to give admin access to a number of people, across multiple websites, for maintenance and support purposes. Requirements Install Libraries module: http://drupal.org/project/libraries Download YAML library from: http://code.google.com/p/spyc/ Extract zip file and install spyc.php under "spyc" sub-folder of sites/all/libraries (or sites/sitename/libraries). Also, please make sure to read README.txt accompanying the module, for installation and configuration instructions. Maturity Status Both client and server modules of the framework have been thoroughly tested in development and have no known issues. However, these modules are very new, have not been used enough in production, so use at your own risk. Credits read more

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This project is an integration between salesforce_api and feedapi. This module is designed to take a SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) statement to create a feed. It will be ported to integrate with feeds.

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Package of things I find useful. YMMV.

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This module creates Chargify database tables and Views implementations for your Chargify subscriptions and customers. It creates Chargify customer to Drupal user and Chargify subscription to Drupal user relationships. This module makes no assumptions about your products or usage, so you will need to write your own module to interface with it. The Chargify Sites feature is a good example of how you might go about this. Chargify sites is a module that allows a user to create site node and pay for that node using the Chargify and Chargify API modules. Chargify module depends on the Chargify API module. Built by Sprocket.

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This module allows you to export and import elements from other modules (CCK, Views, ...) in a quick and clean way. Quick because you need just one click (or command) to export and import all your exportables you want. Clean because every exportable element will be saved to a separated file in the target folder/ you choose. read more

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This module uses JQuery to add a fun and non-intrustive way of sharing the current node with social media sites: currently Twitter, Delicious, Digg, Facebook. Images become draggable and can be dropped onto logos that animate onto the screen to share the page. read more

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"News" is a theme we have been working on for a while now. It aims to be a blank but finished newspaper theme that works best with the panels module. The theme features a white layout with black text, aim is to be entirely and only black red and white although this is easy to change with css. Hopefully this will be a great starting theme for newspapers to use. News is currently only 1 column because it completely depends on panels. That however might change in the future as the project grows.

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ct_gearth is a new content type based on the Google Earth API. Users can attach .kml files to a node (with upload module), which in turn is displayed through the Google Earth API. If a user attaches several .kml files it is possible to choose between them via a drop-down box

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This module adds a webform component where you could use a View as a datasource for your normal webform select component. Instead of hardcoding all the selectable values in the component values field you just select a reference to a View similar to the CCK nodereference. The selectlist/radiobuttons/checkbox then automatically gets filled with all the nodes from the View. This module works only with Webform 6.3x The modules is based on Webform Select Component and CCK Nodreference.

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This is an API module which lets you put several forms into one <form>.

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Technorati and Ingboo have partnered together to provide an all new kind of subscription experience for Technorati content, including tagged posts. Look for a blue Ingboo icon for a full range of subscription options. Feeds are also available for: Hottest Blogosphere Posts Latest Original Articles from Technorati The Technorati Blog We also have channel feeds, writer feeds, and editorial tag feeds, which can be found on their respective pages.

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Download Drupal 6.16 Download Drupal 5.22 Drupal 6.16 and 5.22, maintenance releases which fix issues reported through the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Drupal 6.16 also fixes other smaller issues. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in the Drupal 5.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released. Upgrading to Drupal 6 is recommended. read more

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Drupal 6 Attachment Views, by me, J. Ayen Green, is my second title from Packt Publishing. It is aimed at Drupal web site developers who want to build more functionality and interaction into their views, but aren’t ready quite yet to take on panels. As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association! I wrote this to be a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses actual case study that was developed in parallel with the book’s writing. This guide presents purposeful and interactive examples that build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples help you to learn quickly to use this exciting feature of views. read more

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This minimalist Drupal theme inspired by Vigilance theme of thethemefoundry.com. Minimalist theme is clean and very minimalist; with two columns and fixed width layout. Minimalist theme running perfectly in every browser; very suitable for blog site, although not close the possibility for use other than the blogging purposes. Features: Two column layout Tableless design for SEO Fixed width layout Four regions (Content top, Sidebar, Content bottom and Footer) CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 validated Supports custom logo and favicon (logo could be a banner that extends the length of about 930px) User picture in profile, comments and post Very fast theme Theme developed by Danang Probo Sayekti.

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Start:  2010-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 America/Chicago Organizers:  jlmeredith dougvann Regional conference Drupal Camp Nashville registrations are open! Come join us for a full day of Drupal goodness! Capacity is limited, so sign up now! More details coming soon!! We are also seeking sponsors for the event. We have three sponsorship breakdowns at $1000 / $500 / $250. We are tight on time as we are only 2 weeks out, but the need is small! We only need one of each to meet the needs of the camp. If you can help, please get in contact with us by visiting http://drupalcampnashville.com/contact . http://drupalcampnashville.com/ Missouri

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Over 400 session submissions have been submitted for DrupalCon San Francisco, which will be held April 19-21, 2010. We need your help in deciding which of those sessions will be included in the conference program. Please come review the list of sessions and vote on the ones you'd like to see most. Voting ends Monday, March 1st at 23:59 PST. DrupalCon is a community-driven event. You've shared with us a vast array of exciting new ideas, proven recipes for success, case studies, best practices, new solutions to old problems, and other gems of knowledge. Now help us narrow down the selection. Your opinions are what shapes what happens at DrupalCon. Remember, every vote counts! If you're a business, organization, or individual interested in helping to sponsor DrupalCon San Francisco, opportunities are still available. Contact us via the Web site, via e-mail at fundraising@drupal.com or phone at 415-894-9320 today! read more

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The Augusta Chronicle, the flagship newspaper of Morris Publishing Group, recently relaunched its website on the outstanding Drupal framework. Morris first began using Drupal in 2005 with the launch of BlufftonToday.com, a blog-centric community website coupled with a free daily newspaper. In 2006 it adopted Drupal for both news and blogs at SavannahNow.com, the website of the Savannah Morning News. Both newspapers won Digital Edge awards for innovation in user participation. Since then, the digital media arm of Morris Communications, Morris DigitalWorks, has developed a robust digital newspaper platform built on Drupal 6, to eventually power all 13 of its daily newspapers. Morris also uses Drupal for its radio stations and Skirt.com, a national specialty site for women. Reader Participation Morris has made a commitment to make their online platform a dynamic arena for reader participation and contributions. Readers are encouraged to comment on stories and blogs, and, on some papers, are encouraged to create their own blogs on the site. Journalists are expected to post news online immediately and to interact with the public, and they need to be able to do it without learning HTML or tools such as FTP. These requirements made Drupal a natural choice. read more

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Drupal 7 is moving along nicely, and is becoming increasingly stable. We just released a second alpha release, fixing a number of critical bugs, following our initial alpha release in January. Alpha releases are to give Drupalistas something to download and test, so they can report and help fix bugs. When will we switch to betas? We will switch to betas when the upgrade path from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 is working. Once we hit beta, we will become increasingly strict about accepting any more changes and we'll also commit to making HEAD to HEAD upgrades work. Finally, we'll start rolling release candidates once the number of critical bugs is zero (or close to zero). To help us focus on critical bugs, we're working on adding a 'major' severity level to our ticketing system, making the options 'critical', 'major', 'normal' and 'minor'. 'Major' bugs would be really bad, but not necessarily block a release. For example, bugs that don't prevent Drupal from working, or that only affect a fraction of the Drupal population would be prioritized for fixing in follow-up releases. Critical bugs are those that badly break Drupal, or that are a major regression compared to Drupal 6. read more

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In early 2009, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis determined that it needed to upgrade its website, mostly for security concerns. After investigating a move from Joomla! 1.0.x to Joomla! 1.5.x, the Archdiocese determined it would be more cost effective and a more future-proof decision to migrate the over 49 individual Joomla! sites that comprised www.archstl.org into a single Drupal installation. This upgrade/migration provides many benefits, not the least of which are a better end-user experience, a better administrative experience, and much improved page load and search indexing performance. In addition, Drupal's structure and content presentation provide much greater flexibility in design and information structure, as well as SEO (search engine optimization) than other popular CMS frameworks that were investigated. read more

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Our first Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the second alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love! The most notable change for developers is moving $form['#field'] to $form_state. This makes field forms more resilient to form_alters and debugging became a lot less tedious. Comment body became a field and new fields can be added to comments through the field UI module. And congratulations to the docs team and associated helpers for their outstanding work in enhancing and correcting lots of API documentation this release. We've also fixed a number of issues since the previous alpha, most importantly one that caused all files to be deleted after six hours. Oops. :P This is a great time to reiterate... It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. It is expected that there will be at least one more alpha version followed by a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback. read more

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Chamfer is a fully configurable theme that's easy on the eyes. It also has some nice javascript in the settings pages that allow you to turn different aspects of chamfer on and off. It's also got a colorize-like field-set system of changing everything about the theme. The theme gets its name from the little edging effect applied throughout the website (horay for CSS!). Feature list: Supports 1, 2 or 3 column layouts Cross browser compliant Ability to change most color aspects through theme settings Comes with some default templates that look nice out of the box Ability to turn logos on and off Implements Logo as the header / banner image of the site Ability to turn content border on and off Implements Superfish for Top drop down support Support for the Jquery Colorpicker module to make color selection a lot easier!

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This is a working space for the development of the Bartik theme.

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I'm excited to announce that the Google Summer of Code is happening again in 2010! Last year Drupal went a perfect 18-for-18, meaning that all of our students passed the SoC, and we even got a "bonus student" who worked on Drupal module for the Creative Commons. Please help get the SoC started by joining the Google Summer of Code 2010 group, and by posting project ideas to the group! Student Proposals should be marked as such in the "Project Type", as the students will get first dibs on that project idea once the voting starts. All other project ideas should be marked "Community Proposal" and will be open to all SoC applicants. If you are a student thinking of applying to the program I highly suggest you do the following things: Carefully read the GSoC 2010 FAQ Sign up for an account on Drupal.org and fill in your profile information Ask questions here or in #drupal, and start looking for potential mentors And if you are thinking about becoming a mentor, please do! Not only is the SoC a great way to get more involved in the community and/or groom the next Drupal superstars, but it's not a ton of work and is a whole lotta fun! There are also many other ways to get involved, including: student outreach, mentor and student checkins, group administration, project reviewers, and more. Please contact me if you'd like to get involved! (And if you'd like to help with the application, it would be great to have help) Drupal's application will need to be submitted by March 12th, and proposals will begin being accepted on March 18th. Please see the SoC Timeline for more information about other due dates. Google Summer of Code 2010

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web110 is a clean simple and lightweight theme developed by Thomas Lattimore for Drupal 7 (tested in alpha 1 release). It complies to W3C's standards for XHTML + RDFa and CSS level 2.1. The theme is a two column, fixed width, 960px wide, tableLESS layout that is great for a simple blog or personal site. This theme is excellent "right out of the box", and also is simple enough that it could be built upon with great ease. read more

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Drucer theme originally designed on http://themeforest.net/item/producer-business-and-portfolio-theme/81854 and ported to drupal by http://web-mee.co.cc/ (me :) For some reason I can't update the new release(1.1) to the CVS...I hate CVS!!! You can download the latest release from my site until I fix the problem. Change Log: V 1.1 # a lot of unwanted code was removed; # the additional block areas were removed because of design conflicts; # the space where the breadcrumbs and page title is, was reduced; # the page title was placed on the right of the breadcrumbs; # the node/teaser style of Sky theme was removed, again design conflicts; # the sidebar was a bit modified; # all .js files were removed, no need for them; # and some small code modifications... V 1.0 # Initial release More help and info on my site.

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Motion theme originally designed by 85ideas.com and ported to drupal by http://topdrupalthemes.net. Features * Primary Links * Comment User Picture * Search box * Site slogan * Site mission * Site footer * 2 columns

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Celestial is designed to be easy to use and easy on the eyes whilst still being generic enough to be used for a multitude of website possibilities. Basic Features: XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 validated 1 or 2 column layout Fixed width layout Primary and secondary links The 1.x branch of this theme will depend on Fusion as its base theme.

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From the earliest days of the Internet, many firms have tried to build community sites for medical professionals. Large sums of money were expended on technologies, and expectations around these feature-rich sites became very high. So when a longstanding client, Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI) in New York, wanted to build a community website for America’s 200,000 pharmacists, we at ISL Consulting took it on as a welcome challenge. Given JHI's strong position in the market – they publish the most popular professional magazine for US pharmacists – we knew there would be no shortage of domain expertise or marketing prowess. The question was whether Drupal would permit us to build an affordable yet world-class website with everything from e-commerce to personalized pages, an elaborate friend activity notification system and other community features medical professionals have come to expect from professional sites. read more

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Simpler is a simple, minimalist, clean, tableless, multi column and fluid width theme. This theme is designed to pamper the reader, this can be seen from the choice of font family, font size and color. View the Simpler theme demo site. Simpler theme also designed for cross-browser compatibility; work perfect in Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome. Features: 1, 2, or 3 column layout Tableless design for SEO Fluid width layout CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 validated Supports custom logo and favicon User picture in profile, comments and post Primary links and secondary links 9 regions (header, left sidebar, right sidebar, content top, content bottom, bottom first, bottom middle, bottom last and footer) Support other features like site name, slogan, mission and custom search box Theme developed by Danang Probo Sayekti. read more

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modernbird is a clean, modern theme for clean, modern Drupal 6.x websites. It features a main content area, a featured media box, and a section for sidebar items or icons and is fully HTML 5 compliant. read more

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Start:  2010-06-05 (All day) - 2010-06-06 (All day) UTC Regional conference Drupal Romania Association (http://drupal.org.ro) currently organizes its first major event, the Timisoara 2010 Drupalcamp, taking place during 5th and 6th of June, 2010. Registration is now open, and we will launch the call for submissions soon. The event is organized in partnership with the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. Timisoara is situated in western Romania, at the border with Hungary and Serbia and has easy access from all CE European countries. We are prepared for 350+ participants, and expecting users and developers from Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and other Central and East European states, as well as speakers from the global Drupal Community. You can now register on http://drupalcamp.ro. Hope to see you in June! Drupalcamps Europe [international & english]

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Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for Drupal users of all experience levels, including module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even themers. The book contains basic and advanced topics on Drupal performance that will appeal both to the Drupal novice and the advanced user or developer. With this book you will learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal 6 framework using best practice performance solutions and tools. The book covers how to vastly improve performance through upgrades, caching, configuring and optimization using core and contributed modules. As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association! read more

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This is a grunge Drupal theme in series of Admire_ Drupal themes by Worthapost.com. Its a high quality pure grunge theme that is incredibly stable in dynamic background images in different browsers. Features: Drop-down menu. Flexible width of content regions to adjust width depending on side blocks. Top bar with secondary links and Login/Register links. These links are well configured yhey will change into My Account | Sign out if user is logged in. They are also compatible to adjust links if alias are made for login and register links. RSS image links on Top bar. You can set external feed URL like feedburner. Different block regions have different styles to give your website a great appearance. Amazing comment section. Cross Browser compatible including IE6. Valid XHTML markup. Check this Blocks: Sidebar First Sidebar Last Right sidebar dark Content Top Content Bottom Footer Ad blocks: Advert - big top Banner read more

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Vital Signs 2.0 (VS) is an educational citizen science project consisting of an extensive Drupal website created by Image Works in Portland, Maine for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and funded by the Hewlett Foundation and a generous in-kind donation of services by Image Works. The VS project provides students, teachers, scientists, and citizen scientists with the tools to monitor environmental conditions throughout Maine. The project includes a structured central data repository, tools and protocols for identifying, mapping, tracking and analyzing the occurrence and spread of invasive species into and around the state. Beginning in fall 2009, these resources and supporting programs are being utilized on the laptop computers provided to all Maine middle school students and will be made available to all interested parties starting early 2010. The project's site is composed of 13 original custom Drupal modules, approximately 2 dozen Drupal core modules, more than 40 contributed modules, Google Maps and other web services. In order to give back to the community that made this project possible, we are releasing the full source code for the website under the GPL license and adding it to the Drupal.org project repository. read more

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Vineyard 1.0 -- A Drupal theme The vision of Vineyard is to not look like an easily identifiable Drupal theme. Many Drupal themes can be distinguished by a heavy "rectangular" feel, when the page is broken into a header area and left and right sidebars with strong separating lines. In Vineyard there is only one background color and no lines dividing the page into parts. If needed margins and empty space is used to separate blocks and content from each other (think Google vs Yahoo). To further "break" the feeling of a "rectangular" layout, the top edge of both sidebars and main area are set at different heights. Vineyard was originally created as a Drupal 4.7 theme for www.openlife.cc. In 2009 the site was upgraded to Drupal 6, and as part of that the same look was recreated from scratch as a Drupal 6 theme, using the standard Bluemarine theme as starting point. Some special tricks used in the theme: Normal links (but not menu's and other Drupal generated links) are preceded by a small grape icon added from CSS. The grape can of course be substituted with some other icon. Similarly there is a background image which is positioned relative to the browser window, ie it does not scroll with the page. The default image is a group of grapes and a leaf. Of course this image can also be easily changed. read more

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Conch is a beautiful Drupal theme developed in vintage style which will become an excellent basis for any Drupal-powered website. The theme maintains three column layout and is very easy to use. It is customizable allowing you to choose between different menu styles and color schemes. The theme is developed by SymphonyThemes. Features - * 1, 2, or 3 column layout * 12 collapsible block regions * 3 menu styles: CSS, Split and ST. * Compliant to IE6/7, Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox

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Paper is a table-less Drupal theme, provided by templatemo, clean, green, and valid. Cross-browser tested.

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Just a few years ago Drupal.org was maintained by a small team of insiders. Now, we are making major changes to the site using the community's many developers and themers. This update provides the Drupal community our implementation redesign progress, where we've run into challenges, and provide information about our future plans. The following update provides insight into: Our progress so far The present focus of the implementation and management team Where help is needed from the community 1. A Redesign Progress Report The Drupal.org redesign is an effort started in 2007 to make Drupal.org meet the needs of the growing Drupal community and showcase the power of the Drupal software. In 2008, an exciting and visionary new design for Drupal.org was completed by Mark Boulton Design and the community. read more

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Brooklyn is a zen sub-theme designed specifically for blogging, but useful for various types of sites. It has a fixed width, 2 column, centred layout. It requires the zen theme to function, and it's strongly recommended to have the following: Imagefield module enabled, with a field for each node type you are using called field_image. Imagecache, with two presets: blog (scale and crop: 500x333) and avatar (scaled and crop: 48x48) Some image manipulation skills to modify the site logo to suit your site. Currently the theme has support for: Nodes Comments Admin pages Polls Most areas should work fine out of the box, but the above have been tested. Any requests for additional theming will be considered. The theme is developed by Simon at Design while we sleep and I can be contacted for majorly extending this theme or other Drupal design or development. There is a demo too.

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Table-less, valid XHTML/CSS theme, provided by Styleshout Cross-browser compatible; IE.x, Safari, Chrome, Firefox ..etc

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Start:  2010-06-13 08:00 - 18:00 America/Indianapolis Organizers:  dougvann Regional conference A call for presenters AND attendees PLZ reply with ideas and comments. All input welcome! The organizers of SouthEast LinuxFest have asked me to volunteer to organize a FREE one day Drupalcamp to take place on day2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest. http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/ WHEN: Sunday June 13th WHERE: Spartenburg Marriott at the Renaissance http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/SPAMC?groupCode=slxslxa&app=resvlink&fromDate=6/10/10&toDate=6/14/10 Spartenburg SC TRAVEL: The hotel is 10 min away from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) which serves most air lines. REGISTRATION: Opens soon and will be on www.southeastlinuxfest.org We can have as many as three tracks and we have a FULL DAY to fill up. The response I get from potential presenters and attendees will aid in determining how many tracks we will have. This is a group effort. Chime in and be a part of the 1st DrupalCamp in SC! If you will attend this event PLZ register as attending on this post so I can get a preliminary idea of the initial interest level. :-) Thanks! - Doug Vann - Drupal Developer & Trainer for www.DuoConsulting.com - http://www.dougvann.com My Blog - Skype: douglas.h.vann Skype Me - http://www.twitter.com/dougvann Tweet Me Macon GA

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This theme is developed by Worthapost. This is multi-purpose theme that suits almost all type of websites. We have integrated color module so that you can have freedom of choosing your favorite color for your website. Features: - Integerated Color module. - Fluid width (default), Fixed width. - Fixed width (with custom width option). Various block regions: - Right Sidebar - Sub-Right 1 - Sub-Right 2 - Above content - Below Content - Bottom 1 - Bottom 2 Visit our website to rate and comment on this theme. Also see our premium themes for Drupal.

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After a highly successful Drupal deployment for the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) national website, the ASMP decided to again use Drupal for their next project: Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow, or dpBestflow for short. DP Bestflow is a Library of Congress-funded initiative to provide an all-encompassing resource for digital photography best practices. The ASMP once again teamed up with Chicago's Grillo Group for graphic design, and Philadelphia-based web development firm Context to perform the Drupal implementation. The most impressive part of the site, however, is the immense amount of rich, useful content, the majority of which is the handiwork of digital photography gurus Richard Anderson (author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow) and Peter Krogh (author of The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers). read more

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After a lot of work, waiting, staging, and such I am proud to announce the addition of contributed projects to the automated testing system. Contributed projects may now take advantage of the same system that Drupal core developers have been using for over a year with great success. The deployment comes quickly after the recent 2.0 launch in late November of 2009. In addition to adding support for contributed project testing a number of other features have been added, most notably: Coder and Coder Tough Love review support. General e-mail notifications - the devlist mailing list will get an e-mail when Drupal core breaks. A number of UI/workflow improvments on drupal.org. Grouping of reviews by type or plugin to make room for a cleaner multiple database testing workflow. Additional administrative tools for qa.drupal.org and testing clients. Views RSS feed plugin for aggregation of test events and results. For an example of the test results, please take a look at the current Drupal 7 (HEAD) results or one of our beta contributed project results, such as poormanscron. read more

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The San Francisco DrupalCon organizing committee is happy to announce that session submissions are open! Come see the sessions that have already been proposed, and if you can't find exactly what you're looking for, suggest your own. Drupal's community is what sets it apart from the pack, so come be a part of the magic! The session submission and voting schedule is: January 15, 2010 to February 15, 2010 - Session Submissions Open February 16, 2010 - March 1, 2010 - Public Voting on Sessions 
March 5, 2010 - Speakers Notified
 March 15, 2010 - Final Schedule Posted read more

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SharkScopers is a Drupal 6 site that allows online poker instructors to sell screencast tutorial videos. The first two minutes can be viewed by anyone. Users can purchase credits that unlock whole videos. Instructors then receive a cut of the profit. Jonathan Brown from Blue Droplet Media in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been helping Mike Jonas from SharkScope in New York develop the site for more than a year. It uses Jonathan's Blue Droplet Video module extensively. Mike had done a lot of research into what system should be used to build the site. His primary motivation for choosing Drupal was so that Blue Droplet Video could be used. He was blown away by how BDV integrates with CCK and Views, allowing the fundamentals of the site to be created with great ease. Jonathan and Mike have very well defined roles within the project. For each task, they consult via email and Skype to construct robust specifications. Jonathan then implements the required functionality. A release early, release often methodology is used, allowing the site to innovate rapidly. The fantastic theme was created entirely by Mike as a Zen sub-theme. read more

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€65Syan makes your website beautiful throught the use of soft contrasts, subtle lighting effects and balanced typoghraphy. Explore the demo site and find out if the Syan user experience right for your site! imgfield: 

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Healing Thresholds Autism Therapy provides comprehensive therapy fact sheets, daily updates of research and news, and a global directory of autism therapists. The site has become a standard and definitive source for autism treatment information. In particular, the site provides layperson-accessible summaries of essentially all child-focused research from the last 3 years, in addition to earlier seminal papers. The two biggest challenges of the site have been to expose all of the deep content we've authored and to monetize it. We have over 2000 carefully-written research and news summaries and user-generated content. We also have over 1000 taxonomy terms, and we've authored detailed definitions for nearly half. Our redesign last month upgraded the three-year-old Drupal 4.7-based site to Drupal 6. More importantly, we used the flexibility of Drupal to completely re-architect how users find and interact with our content. Where previously we had separate sections of research and news, our new tabbed interface displays -- in a search engine friendly fashion -- all of the relevant content for each of over 1000 different therapy topics. read more

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Busy is a theme targeted mainly at corporate sites. See more screenshots over here: http://drupal.org/node/695292#comment-2519468 It's source of inspiration are sites like salzgitter-ag.de or deutsche-bank.de. Busy will support Color module and come with several header images that are GPL'd so you can choose from them right away.

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After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. We revamped Drupal's user interface, added key contributed modules including CCK and ImageField, introduced a new object-oriented database layer, revamped file handling capabilities, and an automated testing framework based on SimpleTest, among literally hundreds of other improvements. Drupal 7.0 alpha 1 is the collective work of over 800 core contributors. It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. It is expected that there will be at least one more alpha version followed by a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback. read more

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This is an Adaptivetheme sub-theme that fully supports Panels Everywhere. The theme provides a wrapper that allows you set a width on the page via theme settings. Most of the standard Adaptivetheme theme settings are supported - only those that related to layout have been removed apart from the width setting. The basic concept is to combine the advanced theme settings of Adaptivetheme with the layout capability of Panels and Panels Everywhere. Its early days for this theme and the sample CSS files that come with need a total rewrite to be useful. Requirements Adaptivetheme starter theme (the DEV version) Panels Panels Everywhere Chaos tool suite Skinr NOTE: This theme has only one region (content), enabling this theme as default will render your site with no sidebars, regions, header or footer! It is recommended that you set another theme as the Admin theme until you have Panels Everywhere set up correctly.

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The TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library is an open source project developing a free virtual appliance library that pre-integrates the very best server-oriented open source software. TurnKey Linux appliances are simple, ready-to-use servers that are designed to "just work" and can be deployed in minutes on a virtual machine, bare metal or in the cloud. The purpose of this case study is to discuss our experience using Drupal to implement TurnKey's web site. read more

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Registration is open for the first DrupalCamp ever in Spain. Yes, you are right, it will not be the first drupal meeting in Spain: we had a GREAT Drupalcon in Barcelona on 2007. However, this will be a Camp, the first DrupalCamp in Spain. It will be held in the same venue as the event in 2007, the Citilab, so some of you already know what this means: an excellent venue to have hundreds of drupalistas talk, work, sharing, hiring, eating, learning, etc. on Drupal. We already had 430+ pre-registrations and REGISTRATION is now OPEN! (the venue can hold "only" 400 people, so....) Don't miss it. There will be 4 session tracks. At least one of them in English. It might be two tracks in English if enough sessions are proposed. We will also have a job fair and already know that many web shops will be hiring. Don't miss it! Check the schedule for the three days of camp: 26, 27 and 28 of February, 2010, in Barcelona, and then propose and/or vote your sessions. Drupal Event Organization

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Tinsel is a conversion of the Garland theme that can be used with Panels Everywhere, meaning you can have your Drupal continue to look like Drupal even when you get rid of blocks. Other than providing a Panel Layout and customizing those themes, it looks and behaves exactly like Garland. See the README.txt for installation instructions.

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Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours helps you get up to speed with Drupal quickly. Whether you're starting from scratch or working to fill in some gaps in your Drupal knowledge, you'll find descriptions, examples, and Try It Yourself numbered steps to walk you through working with Drupal. This book introduces you to Drupal and to major components ranging from the basics (overall design, themes, administration, security, and the like) as well as modules that are distributed with Drupal itself along with contributed modules that enhance your site. Each chapter is focused on a single task so that you can jump around according to your needs. read more

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Panany is a theme created to use with Panels and Panels Everywhere. Panany was inspired by a recent posting by Merlinofchaos. This is a proof of concept theme and currently a work-in-progress. Panany contains the following Panels layouts and styles: Layouts: Three columns = 50 | 25 | 25 Three columns = 25 | 25 | 50 Styles: Panany Default = theme's default block styles Panany Gradient = gradient background with dark blue title background Panany Pinestripe = light striped background w/ dark brown title background

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This is sub-theme of the Adaptivetheme base theme, you must first install the base theme first before enabling this sub-theme! Koda was designed by Kodamera and ported to Drupal by Adaptivethemes.com. AT Koda supports all Adaptivethemes advanced theme settings and is has several built in block styles to select from. The theme is 100% Fluid width by default but also supports fixed width configurations (done via the advanced theme settings). Features 100% width or fixed width 17 regions, Gpanels and Custom Panel layouts 3 layouts to choose from Adjustable width sidebars 80+ theme settings 3 block styles (requires Skinr) Content source ordered Requirements Dev version of Adaptivetheme Skinr module Panels 3 - only needed if you want to use Adaptivethemes custom panel layouts

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As the title suggests, it is visually supposed to resemble an untidy desk and is based on a grid 970px wide with 12 columns and 10px margins. It is possible to have two or three columns in the main section and three or four columns in the footer. This theme is particularly graphic heavy but I've done everything I can to optimise the images to ensure that they aren't too big. It uses extensive CSS3 so as to be expected it shines brightest on the more modern browsers, although it should look fine in all versions of IE. Scruffy Desk is easily one of the most accomplished themes on the Drupal repository and it even uses CSS for the yet-to-be-released Firefox 3.6 and Opera 10.5 – how's that for cutting edge! ;) Suburban Glory Web Design You may need to use the theme switcher on the live demo site linked to below

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New training to help you learn how to build Drupal themes is available online from Lynda.com. Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes shows how a Drupal theme can alter the look and feel of a web site. Drupal evangelist and author Chris Charlton introduces the core themes that ship with Drupal, how to install and administer new themes, change color schemes, and add sub-themes. Also demonstrated is how to build a custom theme from scratch, what templates are possible in Drupal themes; integrate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; and how to theme specific nodes, pages, and blocks by building a theme step-by-step for a fictitious online flower shop. read more

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It's no coincidence the title of this video corresponds with exactly what you're probably trying to do with your Drupal site. Squeeze ...gotdrupal.com

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My new book, Drupal for Dummies, is now available. My intended audience is non-technical, so if you've got a friend who wants you to build a Drupal site for them, this might be worth mentioning to them. The companion Web site, http://drupalfordummies.com was created using only the information presented in the book. You can find out more about the book here: Click for Drupal Association affiliate link to Amazon! I'd love to hear from you with any comments or questions. read more

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With 2009 closing and 2010 coming, it is time to look back over our shoulder and see what a great year we had. And it is time to look ahead and predict where the future of Drupal will lead us to in 2010. 2009 Lets start with looking back. Drupal turned eight and in CMS years this means we are young at heart while grownup in our soul. At Dries' site, you can find a selection of sites that Dries found worthwhile mentioning, maybe because he liked the site, the implementation or the usage or the owner of the site can potentially influence other prospects to see the Drupal light. Let us take a look at that list and see what they have trends we can conclude from that list combined with the knowledge about our community. Many big name sites switched to Drupal in 2009. In the media / entertainment market, some of the names include: Virgin, Slate, Monthy Python and Lucas Arts read more

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Over the last year, the redesign has been progressing with many infrastructure and feature improvements. We have had 6 drupal.org sprints in both Europe and North America. On January 8th, 2010 we are going to have a drupal.org redesign virtual sprint. Many members of the Drupal community and the drupal.org infrastructure team have participated in the redesign so far. In order to help complete the minimum viable redesign we've recruited 24 Drupal consulting companies to help implement the main redesign landing pages. Sponsoring companies We specifically requested companies to sponsor pages because this part of the redesign required a broad range of skills including project management, content, design, theming, and development. We believed that sponsoring companies were used to marshaling a collection of resources to deliver sites to their customers. We believed these companies could scope, estimate, and deliver these redesign sections. While we've had 24 companies sponsor sections to date, we still require more sections of the site to be sponsored. If your Drupal company is interested in sponsoring a section please review the redesign implementers guide to understand how to contribute. read more

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GreatBrewers.com, a Drupal 6 site, powers BeerCloud, a mobile app available in the Android Market and iTunes App Store that helps you pair beer with food, track down your favorite beers in your neighborhood, and pull up a full description of any beer with a scan of its barcode. Whether you're a beer consumer who could use some guidance in making a well-educated purchase, a food lover who wants to discover new ways to enhance a meal with a suitable beer pairing, or a traveling beer enthusiast who wants to instantly map the closest stores, bars, and restaurants carrying one of your favorite beers, BeerCloud is the quintessential mobile beer app. Great Brewers is powered by America’s leading network of beer passionate wholesalers that collectively represent the interests of the world’s best brewers by promoting education and awareness through shared resources. The mission of Great Brewers is to bridge the gap between the world’s great brewers and the consumers who enjoy their products, with a paramount focus on education and on enhancing beer distribution practices through the sharing of information. read more

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Genomeweb, a print and online publisher for the molecular biology research community, has successfully migrated its web site to Drupal. Cyrve built the Drupal site and migrated data into it from a legacy Microsoft SQL Server application. Drupal craftsmen Moshe Weitzman and Mike Ryan developed the site, and Maureen Lyons authored the theme. read more

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The Drupal Association just approved the proposal from the Danish team to organize Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference will take place in August, the exact date will be finalized in the coming week. If you wonder what kind of greatness is waiting for you, check out their proposal at http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35 or http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse Congratulations to the Danish team! EDIT: The dates are 23 - 26 August, with events on the day before and day after likely. European Regional DrupalCon Organizers

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The testing phase is over... 3281d Consulting is extremely pleased to announce that the new distribution packaging system is now deployed on drupal.org. The announcement on the front page of drupal.org contains lots of details about how the system looks for end users of Drupal distributions, including lots of nice UI changes to project pages and release nodes. If you maintain an installation profile on drupal.org please read the How to package a profile on drupal.org handbook page. It's really not that hard, but there are some very important things you need to read and understand to make use of the new system. Support requests and "bug reports" from people who just didn't read the handbook page won't be well received. ;) Oh, and speaking of issues, if you find one, please search the packaged install profiles tag before submitting a new one. Exciting times -- go forth, yonder profile maintainers, and make Drupal more usable! Thanks! -Derek Packaging & Deployment

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Start:  2009-11-28 09:30 - 16:30 America/Lima Organizers:  develCuy Regional conference english below DrupalCamp Perú #2 se llevará a cabo éste 28 de Noviembre, de 9:30 a 16:30, en el Auditorio Ollantaytambo de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. Ingreso y Coffe Break Libre ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! Programa ¿Qué és Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo Ya tengo una web ¿Cómo la convierto a Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07) Usando Extensiones jQuery para Efectos Visuales en Nuestros Temas Drupal - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa) Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward Oportunidades Drupal en la Era del Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam) Mesa Redonda con Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presenta Cesar Sóplin Más información... Auspician Moving Interactive Social Media Development Seed CONDESAN Organizan LINURP Drupal Perú Apoya Datanoia.com ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ ! -- ENGLISH VERSION -- DrupalCamp Perú #2 will be held November 28, 2009, 9:30 to 16:30, at the Ollantaytambo Auditorium of Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú. Registration and Coffe Break are Free ¡ REGISTER NOW ! Agenda ¿What is Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo I have a web page already ¿How do I convert it to Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07) Using jQuery Extentions for Visual Effects in Our Drupal Themes - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa) Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward Drupal Opportunities in the Age of Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema Open Discussion with Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presented by Cesar Sóplin DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam) More information... Sponsored by Moving Interactive Social Media Development Seed CONDESAN Organized by LINURP Drupal Perú With the help of Datanoia.com ¡ REGISTER NOW ! Local User Group Organizers

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The last few weeks have been busy for groups.drupal.org maintenance and the work came to a head today. As always, if you notice any problems please report them (here or in irc or via the infrastructure queue). All synch requests completed (but not all accounts synched) With help from Michelle and the normal g.d.o admins we were able to synch all the accounts that had requested a synch the proper way. But, there's still thousands more who need help. Bakery has better help messages and self serve! The Bakery module now has a self serve mechanism thanks to work by bdragon and a review from Josh K. This took a lot of work and it's great to have. If you are having trouble logging in, you should now be able to fix it yourself! I also added a nice link from the profile page to the users profile page on the master site, so that spam fighters can block them on the parent site (that's how you're supposed to do it, by the way). And there is some help text to let people know that they must edit name, mail, password on the parent site, not the local site. Views update, "unread" is truly unread! If you are one of those folks who uses the unread tab to keep track of content you'll be pleased to find that it is actually unread content now. Imagine that! Thanks to Earl for adding that filter back to Views 6.x-2.7. Next steps There's another patch I'd love to get lose on the site to make Bakery work with page caching turned on. We should probably also install the Usermerge module so that people who had multiple accounts in the past can merge them together, but that module needs a little more review. There's also some discussion afoot to get better mapping on groups.drupal.org. And Steve has been hard at work bringing back the e-mail headers that folks have missed so much. Want to see more features on the site? Sure! Let's brainstorm and start fixing the I also created a tag called gdo love for issues that will help improve this site, so feel free to use that to help people keep track of what you want to work on. Groups.drupal.org

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Start:  2009-12-12 09:00 UTC Organizers:  Slurpee You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2009. Who/Why: For more than 3 years the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group has highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between Chicago and Mid-West establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others. The objective of Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking. What: An attendee-driven format with advanced resources available makes this event unique. Need help with a problem, looking for work, or looking to hire Drupal talent? Find someone with a solution at Drupal Camp Chicago. Multiple presentations addressing beginners through advanced developers will run simultaneously throughout both days. All skill levels are welcome and laptops are encouraged. Seating is limited, register now. Where/When: Hotel Orrington 1710 Orrington Ave Evanston, IL Saturday, December 12, 2009, 9 am - 5 pm Sunday, December 13, 2009, 9 am - 3 pm hotel map Pricing: Pre-Registration for 2-day event: $25 includes Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, Sunday breakfast Volunteering is fun! Contact us Exception: Participants can request a scholarship and explain their circumstances. Sponsor: Platinum – $1,000 Gold – $750 Silver – $500 Bronze – $250 Community – $50 View our sponsorship page to let us know your level of commitment. Speaker: Interested in presenting? submit a session. Highlight your Drupal knowledge to the mid-west Share your experience and contribute to the growth of Drupal Register Today! Matthew@Lechleider.com CDMUG Organizer http://cdmug.org http://drupalcampchicago.org Regional conference Chicago

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€65Aureus is a colorful theme with a laidback vibe. Soft shapes and pastel colors set the scene for this friendly looking theme. Aureus features a wealth of regions to create a multitude of layouts. With advanced layout and color settings this theme can easily be modified beyond recognition! imgfield: 

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