Posted by traviscarden on May 14, 2010 at 6:50pm
Start:
2010-05-22 13:00 America/Chicago Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Location: Envoy, Inc.
We'll follow up on last month's topic, best modules, by discussing how to go about choosing a module for a given task, evaluating its relative strength and health. More time will be devoted to unstructured sharing, so come with your achievements, discoveries, questions and even frustrations.
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Michael Joyce
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Michael, those are a great start. I've started a separate discussion for a new logo at http://groups.drupal.org/node/70618.
Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid
Meeting summary
Travis spoke on how to best search and pick appropriate Drupal modules
- Using drupal.org/project/modules and the core version and category filters
- How to create a Firefox Search Bookmark (also OpenDNS shortcuts)
- How to get an overview of a module's issue queue
- Looking at the reputation of a module's maintainer or co-maintainer
- Choosing modules that follow core principals of integrating with a general approach (CCK, Views)
- Don't rely on any one factor to evaluate a module, take a general approach
- RSS feed of new modules: http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0/feed
- Preview of the new module page: https://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/modul...
Travis's pick of the month: http://drupal.org/project/autosave
Getting PHP & SOAP working:
http://drupal.org/project/services
http://drupal.org/project/soap_server
http://drupal.org/project/soapclient
http://groups.drupal.org/services
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap
Question about what IDE's everyone uses, largest portion using Komodo
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit - Free
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide - Paid
Drush - More beer less effort video
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jun/19/drush-more-beer-less-effort
jimmynash/Patrick demo'ed Web enabled
http://www.webenabled.com/
Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid
Komodo Edit
While discussing development tools, Komodo Edit was brought up. Since I use that quite a bit, I thought that I'd post some links to a few extensions that round it out for me:
Drupal Extension that provides some autocomplete stuff and a basic module template.
http://community.activestate.com/node/4513
A few handy html dev tools
http://community.activestate.com/xpi/html-toolkit Html Toolkit
Add in some ui tab tweaks
http://community.activestate.com/xpi/tweak-ui
Add list of functions in the open document
http://community.activestate.com/node/1958 Source Tree
My Favorite Extensions
Here are a few extensions I use: