Blogs

There's a slew of Drupal signup modules which enable event-registration (including paying for, email notifications, etc). Here are a number of reasons I'd rather event-registration to be handled by Ubercart, rather than a host of standalone modules.

Once you know the type of software you need, it usually comes down to which from multiple competitors you should choose. For example if you need a CMS, should you choose Joomla, Drupal, or Wordpress? If you need e-commerce, should you choose osCommerce, Zen Cart, or Magento?

My new fillpdf.module is a complete replacement of webform_pdf.module. From the project page's description:

I keep promising to add new episodes to my podcast, and I apologize to those of you who are waiting. My podcast is about introductory web development, geared towards beginners who don't know where to start. With that in mind, I listen to a lot of podcasts and found a few to be especially valuable in the "introductory" space (rather than some of those newsy ones). So for those of you looking for how-to, beginner information on web development (and to keep you busy while I work up some more of my own episodes), here are a list of podcasts that got me started.

I hate researching the current de-facto method of building a common Drupal solution. A few examples of what I'm talking about are CCK profiles, image galleries, podcasting, and google maps. Take image galleries -- there are a million ways to build an image gallery in Drupal, but there are really only a handful of methods that are commonly used, and it's these methods I want to stick to unless I know that I need some edge-case solution. I frequently find myself installing a handful of modules to build, say an image gallery, only to find that I chose the wrong handful.

My second Drupal contrib module! From the summary on the project page:

Recently I've had to do some work applying effects to tabular data using jQuery. Turns out jQuery's not too good at applying effects (sliding, fading, etc) to table rows (discussion about this problem here). Frustrated, I decided to have a go at jQuery's dreaded competitor frameworks (I'm one of those Drupal/jQuery-fits-all kinda guys).

Hah, random blog-entry, but a fun lil' side-note. Remember Mad Libs from your childhood? During some heavy-duty procrastination time while working on a project, I created a community-driven online Mad Libs. Obviously needs work, but it's just basic Drupal with some CCK + Views... was going to create a custom filter, but it didn't work out too hot so I just hack-filtered in hook_nodeapi (I know, I know...). Anyway, add some words & paragraphs, I wanna see some funny libs!

A recent client requested a user-friendly (aka, web interface) means for creating web forms, logical workflow between forms and form-pages, and user-specified actions to invoke upon completion of these forms. What I'm getting at here is a solution comparable to Form Assembly, JotForm, and Wufoo.