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DrupalCon DC 2009 – Videos, Slide and More

Posted by Tom On March - 4 - 2009
DrupalCon DC 2009

Thanks to the great folks helping put DrupalCon DC on right now. Less than 8 hours into DrupalCon DC 2009 and they already have 3 session video up. You folks rock!

I’ll work on compiling a list of the session videos below. Come back for updates.

DrupalCon DC 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroomdrupalcon
DrupalCon 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – Recorded by Robert Nelson Vance of proVanceTek LLC (http://provancetek.com/)

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Drupal Recipe: Create an Image Who’s Online Block

Posted by Tom On February - 2 - 2009

whos_online_finalRecently in Drupal 6, I needed to create a way to display images showing the currently logged in users for a project we are working on. Essentially, this is a Who’s Online block but rather than displaying usernames, we want to show user profile pictures. Additionally, we extended this with the Gravatar module. Adding this module allowed us to have user profile pictures for users even if they did not upload one if their email address had a gravatar associated with it.

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Popularity: 34% [?]

Don’t Dump Drupal – It is Powerful

Posted by Tom On January - 27 - 2009

Fear of the Dark

I recently came across this blog post talking about someone’s decision to “dump” Drupal as a platform for a site idea they had. As I read the short post, I quickly found that I was shouting “don’t dump Drupal” in the back of my mind.

The author describes three reasons why Drupal didn’t work out for their use.

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Popularity: 10% [?]