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I have posted a review of Drupal 5 Themes by Ric Shreves. It's the first book dedicated entirely to Drupal theming. We needed this.

Basically, it's great for the designer wanting to learn Drupal or the Drupal newbie wanting to get a handle on Drupal's abstracted theme layer. While it covers the fundamentals well, I never found the cool new tricks I was hoping for.

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p>Thanks to the new og_panels functionality added on groups.drupal.org by moshe weitzman. Josh Koenig from the Drupal Dojo has done a great screencast showing how to implement panels within groups. The og_panels module comes stock with the Organic Groups module version 5.x-6.0.

The Secure Pages module

http://drupal.org/project/securepages

A small process which will redirect the the required pages to a SSL version of the page.

So you make sure the user is running on a secure page when they are creating/editing content, viewing user details, or administering the site.

Make sure that your web server has SSL enabled and you Drupal installation has been configured to support SSL access

Check out this email I got from Packt Publishing. They asked that I review the new Drupal 5 Themes book. I agreed and asked if they would help us celebrate our groups one year birthday coming up in March with a few books as door prizes.

edit: This is only for Drupal 5. With Drupal 6 and Views 2 you can enumerate users.

Last Night at our meeting I was sure that views could not be used to create a list of users using profile fields. As to my knowledge, views is solely based on Nodes. Every view must be in context of a node.

I was proven wrong when someone quickly pulled up a views edit page and showed profile fields in the fields pull down.

The book, Learning jQuery, by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg (PACKT publishing, ISBN 978-1-847192-50-9) became available recently. Chaffer is the CTO and Swedberg is a developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids. The two have also authored a jQuery Reference Guide also published by PACKT.

At our last meeting monan and I were discussing the Event and Date+Calendar Modules. I realized I didn't understand what Calendar was. Here is what I think now and what others are saying about this topic.

CCK and Views modules have taken the Drupal community by storm. The ability to rapidly create a CCK content type and Views views of that content type has given power to the user in ways we are still comprehending. The ability to export these new CCK content types and Views views has given the community the ability to replicate features across sites with out replicating all that clicking. Even as a programmer who has created modules before, I find the easy and logic of these modules irresistible.

Many CCK field types have immerged and the Date field type has brought with it the Calendar module. The combination of the Date field and the Calendar module in the presence on the CCK and Views modules could be substituted for the Event module.