developers

UI-Patterns.com is a great resource for information architects, UX designers, UI specialists, but most of all, for developers!

How can something like this be made more useful and usable by developers of both drupal core and contrib? I would like to see usability start at drupal's roots, rather than being left for an after-thought. (This too-often results in interfaces that are harder to fix than they would have been to get right the first time).

I'll be in Barcelona next week for Drupalcon and I've got a few missions.

I've got 2 websites I want to look at converting to Drupal:

1. http://www.kendra.org.uk

Kendra Initiative is a non-profit organisation that wants to see a more open and level content distribution system/marktetplace. We need quotes for building it in Drupal. We've got a skeleton project plan here:

http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWebsiteUpdate

Any pointers, comments and questions would be useful now so that I could have answers for next week when we can meet in the flesh and discuss more.

My name is Emil and I have over 5 years of experience with PHP and MySQL. I have focused my work primary in PHP-Nuke as a framework developing my own modules and I have been able to get the job done to all my clients.

We are building a competitive online music radio community we are hoping will be more useful to discover music than anywhere else online, however thus far Drupal has slowed down our development dramatically since converting from Perl. We have been working on the project now for 2 years. We are now based in Portland, OR.

We are finally working on a major launch of a beta working with drupal developers abroad currently. However we are looking for skilled Portland, OR based developers now to take Beta to the next level as the difficulties are mounting doing this without face to face contact.

Any Adelaide-based developers out there?

Meant to mention this request for a drupal developer on Robert Scoble's blog from yesterday (for a friend of his) -- leave a note in comments on his blog if you are interested -- details are at --

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/27/watching-the-grass-grow-drupal-developer-needed/

I just want to publically give thanks to some folks who've been absolute heroes in terms of helping to shape Views and ensure it becomes a very useful product.

In no particular order, beyond what my faulty memory puts them into:

• KarenS
• Jeff Eaton
• Gordon Heydon
• yched
• Tobias Maier

Crap, I'm forgetting someone. But it's not worth not posting this, just cause my memory sucks.

But seriously, you guys have really, really helped, and I thank you very much for the time you've invested and the work you've done.