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Alternative title: What every new Drupal developer should know Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupal, api, development, drupaleasypodcast, function, php, code, statistics, lists - DrupalEasy

Cool new features. - DrupalEasy

sweet - DrupalEasy

An apology to the Drupal community from Microsoft! - DrupalEasy

"Microsoft considers Drupal a bigger challenge than Google." - DrupalEasy

possible pick of the week - DrupalEasy

This is a nice example of a Drush Make powered install profile. - DrupalEasy

Very cool upgrade coming to Coder Upgrader in Drupal 7 - no more RegEx - should be a lot more rock-solid. - DrupalEasy

If your familiar with Apache Lucene you might be thinking, "but, that's Java". Lucene is a Java search library and is used as the basis for Solr. Its a search engine written by search engine developers. Lucky for us, Lucene has been ported to other programming languages and one of those is PHP. The Lucene API module plugs the PHP port of Lucene into Drupal search. Along with using Lucene to produce the search results it provides faceted search. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupal, lucene, search, solr, drupaleasypodcast, modules, php - DrupalEasy

Excellent rant. - DrupalEasy

DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupalcamp, drupaleasypodcast, losangeles, chicago, case_studies, distribution, install_profile, conference, unconference, voting, barcamp, battideas, free, floridacreatives - DrupalEasy

# Fetching data from file or HTTP sources # Parsing RSS, Atom, CSV or OPML # Producing either simple database records (with Data module), nodes, users or terms # Use an importer configuration either by creating a node or on a stand alone form # Presets for the most common aggregation and import tasks # Integrated mapper for mapping feeds on a field level to CCK nodes, users, terms or SQL tables # A views-style OOP plugin API that makes it easy to tweak existing plugins or create your own (big KUDOS to merlinofchaos for CTools' plugin API) # A views-style export-to-code functionality for configuration (again, hats off, merlinofchaos: CTools export API makes it easy to add exportables to a module) # Support for concurrent feed aggregation with Drupal Queue - a backport of the great queue in Drupal 7 contributed by chx et. al. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: feeds, feedapi, aggregator, parsers, modules, drupaleasypodcast, import, oop - DrupalEasy

Destination URL: This allows you to decide what web address the recipient lands on after accepting an invitation. EVERY NEW FOLLOWER WILL VISIT YOUR WEBSITE! Link to Video Build - GoTwitr has powerful features to build and manage easily. Smart Follow and Purge Features Unlike other automation clients, GoTwitr never blindly follows or purges. You have the option to preview every member of your community first to ensure a quality Twitter community. Link to Video Keyword Follow - Not only can you search Twitter for keywords, you can also use key phrases. Link to Video Smart Follow - Allows you to preview and (if desired) follow them back. Link to Video Mimic Follow - Allows you to select any Twitter user and mimic them by following their friends OR followers. Great tool to monitor and compete with others in your marketplace. Link to Video Local Follow - VERY POWERFUL FEATURE – Build a following of local Twitter users. This allows you to befriend people close to any location. This feature... - DrupalEasy

Ryan should talk about this... - DrupalEasy

free Acquia Hosting accounts to not for profit sites dedicated to promoting the adoption and usage of Drupal. For example, DrupalCamp websites and local Drupal user group websites would qualify for free Acquia Hosting. The program starts in October or November, but you can sign-up now if you have a site that qualifies. In exchange for free hosting, we require that the footer section of each page displays "Hosted by Acquia", and that an Acquia logo is displayed somewhere on your homepage. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupaleasypodcast, hosting, acquia, nonprofit, free - DrupalEasy

In yet another repudiation of its predecessor, the Obama administration this week migrated the White House Web site to Drupal, the popular open-source Web site management software. By dumping the Bush administration's proprietary system and embracing software authored by the community and available to everyone, the consensus holds, the White House embodies the very essence of the new politics. Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! BuzzFacebook FacebookPost to MySpace!MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE I wish Drupal and the White House nothing but happiness. But I have a feeling this story ends badly. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupal, trolls, politics, government, news, critique, drupaleasypodcast, evil - DrupalEasy

Using this module, the site administrator can provide any number of flags for nodes, comments, or users. Some possibilities include bookmarks, marking important, friends, or flag as offensive. With extensive views integration, you can create custom lists of popular content or keep tabs on important content. The 2.0 version of Flag contains the following improvements over the 1.1 version of the module: * Flagging for anonymous users (even with page caching enabled). Requires Session API. * Import/Export support. * Faster table indexes and schema. * Services module integration. * Activity 2 module integration. * More powerful trigger and actions integrations. * Flag access controls (flag only others/own content) and access API. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupaleasypodcast, modules, flag, lists, nodequeue, activity streams - DrupalEasy

Insert is a utility that makes inserting images and links to files into text areas or WYSIWYGs much easier. It adds a simple JavaScript-based button to FileField and ImageField widgets. When used with ImageField and ImageCache, images may be inserted into text areas with a specific ImageCache preset. This module was previously known as FileField Insert. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupaleasypodcast, modules, files, image, imagecache, tinymce, ckeditor, wysiwyg - DrupalEasy

The news that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched this week running open source Drupal software raised eyebrows and hackles among knee-jerk anti-Obama types and a small cadre of ignorant bloggers. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupal, government, press, drupaleasypodcast, arguments - DrupalEasy

The largest underground "movement" in the Drupal community is the desire for a shift in goals, which has been labeled Smallcore. This movement has been rapidly growing among Drupal developers, who instinctively understand the need for and advantages of such an approach, but up until to now there has not been any concrete and constructive communication to the rest of the world about why we feel this approach has merit. This article is meant to provide an overview of what we, as developers, mean when we bandy about the #smallcore tag, which unfortunately has been misconstrued as a desire to just rip out as much code as possible without any thought about our users. This is actually not the case at all, as #smallcore is intended as a way for us to better serve our end users. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupal, drupaleasypodcast, smallcore, framework, cms - DrupalEasy

Right on the money. - DrupalEasy

We need to get an expert on all this stuff on the podcast... - DrupalEasy

Ryan - want to talk about this? - DrupalEasy

The intersection of 2 nerd words. Need a venn diagram to fully appreciate this. - DrupalEasy

This module implements the Porter stemming algorithm to improve American English-language searching with the Drupal built-in Search module. The process of stemming reduces each word in the search index to its basic root or stem (e.g. 'blogging' to 'blog') so that variations on a word ('blogs', 'blogger', 'blogging', 'blog') are considered equivalent when searching. This generally results in more relevant search results. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: search, modules, drupaleasypodcast - DrupalEasy

I had to know what sites I would want to read and get news from... So how will I find them? Next, I have to filter through every item I receive from these feeds to determine if it is about the things I am interested in reading about. Tattler lets me enter the things (topics) that I want to learn about and it goes out and gets me what is being said on the web about those topics. Typically this includes news sites, blogs, social networks, multimedia sites, etc. Tattler runs the content it collects through natural language processing to determine what it is about and tags it with those things for you so you can make relations and connections more easily. trends are graphed on the things the content I collect is referencing the most so I can see connections, relations, and find related content. I can vote, share, comment, or bookmark content I find using Tattler I can tweet, email, post to social networks, or create a feed for content I find using Tattler Tattler can serve as a turn key... - DrupalEasy

CHX gives an awesome overview of some of the more scale-friendly features of Drupal 7, like the fields storage layer, the Queue API, differences in Cron, new and improved Aggregator, Databases, and OOP techniques. This man is a great storyteller. From a Canadian Drupal user group meeting. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupaleasypodcast, drupal7, api, code, php, scalability, queue, database, cck - DrupalEasy

plugins output content from node lists created in the Drupal Views interface in a variety of formats - XML data documents using schemas like OPML and Atom, RDF data documents using a vocabulary like FOAF, JSON data documents in a format like Exhibit JSON, and XHTML data documents using a microformat like hCard. Views Datasource can be thought of as a userland complement to the work going on in the Services and RDF APIs as a site operator only needs to know Views to be able to create datasources in the different formats. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: views, modules, xml, json, rdf, atom, foaf, opml, exhibit, mit, sioc, microformats, vcard, ical, data, semantic, mashups, drupaleasypodcast - DrupalEasy

Wow wow wow. Neat-o! - DrupalEasy

* Features - packages up combinations of views, content types and other functionality into packaged modules, the idea being that you could load a module and gain X functionality. Currently in alpha state for Drupal 6 and requires the new (but awesome) Context module. * Patterns - create an XML (or YAML or PHP array) structure which defines specific groups of functionality. There's also Patterns_Profile which lets you select functionality in the installation profile. Currently the Drupal 6 version is under heavy development. * Distribution Export - intended as a script to compile an installation profile from an existing site. Not even an actual module yet, so it has a long way to go. * The Aegir platform, including the Provision, Hosting and Hostmaster modules. This is currently only at v0.2 (or rather the first release candidate of v0.2) so it has a long way to go. - DrupalEasy