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Tomorrow is the start of the “Quicker Drupal adoption: The 10 minute challenge”. The original post brought a good amount of feedback, which I am summarizing and will post a follow-up in the coming days. I hope some of the comments/ideas get implemented.

I am working towards releasing a revenue sharing module back to the community. The module is based off a shopping comparison api, much like the Amazon module. This module will allow medium to large sites to leverage their traffic outside of advertising banners, Google Adsense etc. Unfortunately it will require Drupal 6 and PHP 5*.

Task: On a recent project a client asked for the following: when visiting a taxonomy term, if that term has children, to display a new block displaying the children terms. The block would also need to have the parent term as the title.

Task: Recently a client asked for a simple yet flexible and scalable solution to modify the user profile output for a particular role (client is using the profile module). The client also wants to grant this role full html privileges with certain profile fields.

By default, the profile.module runs each...

A client recently requested ffmpeg to be installed on the server. I have done this in the past on a client's box but he had a different OS setup. For that installation I used a HowTo guide from VexxHost.

While writing a custom module with it's own content type, I needed to add a menu_local_task to node/x/edit path AND for it to only show up when editing the custom content type. Adding a menu local task is easy, but hiding it from other content types proved fruitless. And, it seems many others had similar needs and problems.

I have received a few emails from a folks sharing their
views on topics. I guess it is time to introduce some new features on this site
that will allow commenting and social sharing of content.

Now when you visit a post you will be able to comment and reply to comments.
This is a pretty common feature on most high traffic sites. It is a great way
to include others in on my thoughts. One extra feature, when commenting you
will be notified if someone else replied to your comment or added another
comment. That is why your email will be asked.

Challenge

Spend 10 minutes 3 times a week for 4 weeks answering questions in Drupal.org forums. When? Starting July 1 (2008). What's that? "I don't know enough yet" OR "I'm too busy developing core". Don't make up your mind just yet. Read on...

Why?

If you could measure adoption rate throughout Drupal.org, my hunch is that the Forums create a faster adoption than Drupal Groups, Modules, Issues etc. The forums are lacking responses and that adoption rate is slowly declining (IMO).

Every where you read on Drupal.org, Professional Drupal Development book, IRC ect, all of us who know Drupal intimately say "Not to hack core" files. I include core module files with that statement. Here are a couple of reasons why:

As you get your hands dirty with Ubercart you will find little things you don't like. Some of the little things are important and others are not. If you stick with Ubercart long enough you will learn that with time, skill, and determination you can modify your Ubercart install as your wish - most of the time.

In December of 2002 I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic. As most people who encounter type 1 diabetes later in their life, you go through several months of shock and denial. Those first few months were quite hard but it did not take long before my blood sugar was under control. The following year I discovered the insulin pump. It is a great tool and a huge blessing.

A friend forwarded me an email the other day. I normally don't read forwards but this one I did. My question to the community (the wolrd wide web :-]): Is this story based on a true story? I am curious to know. Here is the email / forward / story.

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Would you have made the same choice?

A client recently asked for SugarCRM integration with Drupal. I just wanted to report on my findings. There are two SugarCRM + Drupal solutions...

Thanks to Dmitri (and Bevan) who has contributed a new module (Vertical Tabs - Drupal 6 only currently) that minimizes vertical scrolling on node forms.

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