Book Review:
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development
by Matt Butcher
Published by Packt publishing

Now grab this scene : You are at the fairground selling ice cream ; so are a whole bunch of other dudes. The thing is everybody else is selling just plain old vanilla mush , but you’ve got exotic flavors that just perfectly hits the spot at every slurp .(yummy!) Now can you guess who gets the chicks ? Okay the guy with the fat wallet not selling ice cream actually gets the chicks , but that was just an hypothetical question really.

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Hi everyone!

I think this is my first post in these forums, even though I've been using Drupal for a couple of years now.

In a project I'm working on I needed to have an extended history of node views per user. I know Drupal already has the {history} table for this, but its records are purged if they are at least 30 days old.

After browsing for a while, I didn't find any module that would let me keep this history more than 30 days without hacking Drupal's core (such a bad word, isn't it?), so I wrote the Extended History module and uploaded it.

Hope you like it! Any kind of feedback is appreciated :)

Best,

Sebastian.

If the answer is yes, I'd like to tell you about NoParrots.com: We are a Drupal training institute based out of Delhi NCR. We currently offer classroom training in our institute in Gurgaon (a 5 minute walk from the Sikandarpur metro station). If you're a company or a group of people, we are happy to offer you on-site training anywhere in India.

The Head Instructor (Sidharth Kshatriya) is a Computer Science Engineer from Cornell University, USA. He has over 2 years of experience in Drupal.

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Sign up risk free! Attend the first class free before deciding to take the course!

NoParrots.com also regularly holds free Drupal training. Check http://meetup.com/drupal-delhi to see when the next class is being offered.

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If you're not on our mailing list or following us on Twitter, you might have missed the Independence Day weekend sale going on in our store. Today (Monday) is the last day to get 25% off all Lullabot Drupal and jQuery tutorial DVDs and high-definition video downloads.

Spend some time this summer turning yourself into a Drupal superhero!

I would like to show case my new book on Drupal.The book Drupal for absolute Beginners is now available for the international community at lulu.com.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/drupal-for-absolute-beginners/1160...
I would like the drupal community to review the book and suggest changes.
regards
Dr.Kannan Balakrishnan
NB some parts of the book can be downloaded from
http://www.4shared.com/document/zopQuLar/preview.html

Learn how to get started with Solr 1.4 with this useful video featuring Tom Hill, a Solr developer and trainer. Below, we have also included a quick Start Guide and a printed transcript of the video to help you get your Solr search platform up and running quickly.. know more on http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Podcasts...

Announced Today:

We regret that Manning Publications will not be publishing this title:

Drupal in Action by Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg Knaddison

Not all manuscripts make it to the finish line to become published books. We regret to announce that an Early Access title you purchased, Drupal in Action, will not be published.

Does anyone know what the story is here?

On August 23rd, the day before the main conference kicks off, you'll be able to attend training sessions facilitated by leading Drupal experts. These sessions will take place at the main conference venue.

The training sessions will cover:

• Performance and Scalability
• Drupal Powered E-Commerce
• Module development
• Security: process, code and hands-on training

It is possible to attend the training sessions even if you're not going to the main conference. If that's the case, simply buy a ticket for the training session you'd like to attend.

If you buy a ticket for a training session together with a ticket for the conference, we will subtract €30 from the price of your conference ticket (making it €249 + VAT). The discount will be applied automatically during checkout.

Check out the training page for more information on the training sessions.

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So… Drush. Are you using it yet? If not get drushing!—or whatever you call it. If you're not familiar with it, Drush is a command line interface for Drupal sites. It's the bees knees, if you ask me. You can use it to enable/disable modules, run update.php, get a SQL dump of your site, and all sorts of other magically delicious things.
The problem is, it just keeps getting better. I almost can't keep up with it! The recent release of Drush 3 includes all sorts of goodies, and every day I seem to find more and more. I'm going to take a quick look at a few of them that I'm most excited about.

One of the awesome new features in Drush 3 is the ability to run Drush commands on a remote server. So, I can run commands on a remote site without having to manually connect to that server. In order for this to work, you'll need to have Drush on the server as well as your local machine, and you probably want them to be the same version as well. You'll also need to be able to ssh to the server using key authentication. Check this out:

drush username@myserver.com/path/to/drupal#mysite.com status

CooolZine is a magazine/blog theme created with the power of Drupal. This theme has not only an awesome user experience with floating boxes, a fixed or fluid layout with five different backgrounds, it also comes with a utility module, witch helps achieving the necessary configuration. This is not only a theme - it is a whole website concept.

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One of the things Drupal core does not do well at all is provide an easy way to switch on a WYSIWYG editor. There is no editor out of the box and setting it up requires some custom configuration of several Drupal core settings, installing and configuring several contributed modules, and also installing one or more external libraries, like the TinyMCE library. The Lullabot book, Using Drupal (O'Reilly), devotes a whole section to describing one way to configure a WYSIWYG editor.

It's complicated because there are lots of inter-related parts:

1. You need to set up one or more roles that can edit content.
2. You need to create and configure 'Input formats' to create at least one format that allows users to add the html and css needed to create rich text content.
3. You need to select and install a WYSIWYG editor: install the editor, download an appropriate javascript library and move it to the right location (which varies depending on which editor you are using), and then configure the editor to use the library.

And all of that gets you only to the point where you can edit text. If you want to allow users to upload images and insert them into their text, you also need to identify which of several possible methods of image handling you want to use, and install and configure the modules needed to manage that.