September 15th, 6:00 p.m. Hudson Valley Drupal Meetup

I'm interested in hearing about SimpleTest.

I'm for SimpleTest too.

sdague demonstrated the use of the new SimpleTest API built into Drupal 7 (available as a 6.x module with a small patch to core). Through code examples using his module Epublish, everyone got a sense of what is possible and why every module developer should be using this. Some people even thought about how unit tests might help track down problems they might have with conflicting modules.

For cool and helpful modules, here is the list of things that came up:

• Gallery Formatter - Format a CCK image filed with a thumbnail and jQuery carousel
• Display Suite - Take control over how your content is displayed using a drag and drop interface
• Rules - Allows site administrators to define conditionally executed actions based on occurring events
• Menu Token - Provides tokens, that could be used in title or in path of menu items
• Content Moderation - Create workflows with various forms of staging
• Drush - Everyone's favorite CLI for administration
• Upgrade Status and drupalcontribstatus.com - Keep up to date on what the status is for the modules you need for your Drupal 7 migration, or see what modules you can help out with

Miscellaneous conversation

• kutter showed how amazing it is to use the database function in Drupal 7 now that it uses PDO
• vonn.new shared that she is now using hotdrupal.com to host a project
• Vonn also shared a problem she is having in which with caching enabled the first hit to a new node will result in a 404 error, but subsequent hits do not. The problem only occurs with caching on. The consensus of the group was that there seems to be a module doing some publishing behind the scenes, Vonn will test by disabling modules one at a time and reproduce the problem.
• Sean shared information about his new module (Node Announce) that sends out automated announcements, which got people excited as well

The next meeting will be held in the Old Laundry Building at Vassar College, room 205 on October 13th. Ben will be posting maps and information when the meeting is announced.