Software Free

At the Vancouver DrupalCamp there were, of course, the inevitable questions about what modules people use regularly. Boris suggested at one point that people should add to the growing body of information out there about popular modules.

So here is my short list of modules i use on nearly EVERY site:

• CCK, plus various cck field modules like link, imagefield

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  Source: CivicActions blogs

It is well documented/recognized that Drupal is really not very good at picking and sticking with a nomenclature that makes sense to the un-indoctrinated. The recent user testing at UMN made that pretty clear.

As the person on the team who is often working on the configuration of a website and running into the language in the GUI and then explaining the newly built site to the client it is often not until I do the latter that I realize how convoluted some of words used in Drupal are.

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What follows is a slightly edited stream of emails i sent to one of our internal lists as I dove into Panels 2 Beta 3 last week. I hope to glean a more concise set of instructions and recommendations from this experience, but figured in the spirit of “Release early, release often” I would post this just in time for the end of Module Monday.

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Here is an (incomplete) rundown of the various 'similar/related node' type modules:

Today's Module Monday is a quick one. I can't believe that for so long so many people have lived with the "node/add" page or the "Create Content" menu items as the primary way to add a new node to a Drupal site -- I can't believe I put up with this for so long! Well, last November I was working on a project and we ran up against this "problem", it was particularly acute due to the use of Organic Groups.

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I started work on the coder module a little over a year ago, as a response to an internal engineering meeting where were discussing Quality Assurance code reviews, and said "we should have a module to do that."

At OS/CMS I briefly introduced coder in the Lightning Talks session.

While in Barcelona, pre-conference, I gave a Drupal Dojo titled Upgrading your contrib modules to D6? Coder module can help!.

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Views 2 Alpha 2 has been released (and it kicks ass), but views is still many patches away from a stable fully-featured release. This is blocking many drupal 5 sites from upgrading to drupal 6. Earl Miles has laid the groundwork and is now calling on the community to help get views 2 out the door.

Download or CVS-checkout views 2, install it, try to replicate your favorite view and see what features are missing or broken -- there are plenty.

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