What do you want to talk about in January?

I have the go-ahead from a client to experiment with integrating an existing site with drupal. This is a very complex (but haphazardly designed) site found at alaskamls.com but available only to authenticated users.

One of the starting points would be a simple proof-of-concept module that simply demonstrates how to extract authenticated user data (presumably the global $user variable) and print some of it to a simple page or node, including the hashed password.

I would think that the basics of it are in my very limited drupalese and I should have that done in about a week. The basics of setting up this custom module might be of interest to others.

I note that drush has a module builder plugin that also works as a module in drupal.

My problem is that I can't guarantee making it in to Anchorage, depending on the weather. I could "hand off" to someone else to present.

P.S. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, not the graphics thingy or the knuckleheads at ACA
and CGI could be one of (CGI, fastCGI, SCGI, et. al.)

As per my opening topic, I could set up (yet another) tutorial on drupal module building. Perhaps it will be constructive and instructive, but as likely will have limited appeal. One of the things that interests me when I'm not sticking my head "under the drupal hood" is views.

From what K.C. has said - I infer that she has worked a bit with views and maybe K.C. would have some tips or examples to share. And I'm still willing to get into modules ....

I posted this in the event posting, but I wouldn't mind doing something on Features. I will be around for this meet up. I think its a great tie in with views.

My presence is always predicated on the weather, since I live in Palmer and don't work in Anchorage. I would be giving a short talk on what I am up to via importing existing content from non-drupal source. Should there be sufficient interest presented at the meeting or following, I can post some code.
cheers
Tim