Lesson #33 - How the signup.module works

Ahh, Derek, I was looking for you in IRC to ask you to join us, but we only decided to do this about 20 hours before it actually happened. I did it by request, and I'm sure I didn't cover all the really cool features.

I went back and listened to my screencast recording, and I sound positively awful! I had a bad sore throat all week, and it shows. Not to mention the fact that I talked for an entire hour and only covered about 20 minutes of real material. I wanna do it again.

Nobody is going to watch this one-hour class about a contrib module. I need to tighten things up a lot, and I've been thinking a lot about doing a series of dojo lessons on how modules were designed to work. Perhaps a set of 20 to 25 minute overview lessons would be great. I'm sure a lot of peoples would love to try out a module or three, but they get them installed and can't figure out what the darn thing is supposed to do.

I remember when I installed a few modules as a newbie, and playing with them sometimes led to frustration. I abolished a few modules from my sites that "just didn't work". Hmm, I wonder if I really understood their author's intent?

DWW, would you care to re-cast this lesson with me? We'd love to learn from you, especially about some hidden features, like "What happens to the extra form fields that get created during a form_alter?".