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In this post, we describe some of the issues facing large or complex software projects using Drupal's CCK content type extension facilities. We then propose a remedy in the form of CoCKTaiL, a high-level language for CCK types and associated UI elements and relations. Tools and potential applications will be described in future work.

Drupal's Content Construction Kit (CCK) is a powerful feature, much loved by Drupal developers, who use it to rapidly define data types and relations for applications. Using a UI, developers can easily create new content types by specifying fields, UI widgets, relations, and more.

The ability to interactively create new types and supporting UI's is a great timesaver in the early stages of many Drupal development projects.

For larger projects, however, the nature of the design and implementation process for CCK types leads to difficulties in evolving and maintaining projects which include CCK components, and these difficulties contribute to the lifecycle cost of large Drupal applications.

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Have you ever been on a social networking site, let’s say Facebook for example, and it gave you an option to invite all your friends from your gmail or yahoo email account? You ever wondered how you would build something like that on your own social site? Maybe on your blog or maybe your own social network? OpenInviter is an open source php class written in PHP5 that does just that. It allows users to import contacts from most of the well known email providers and social networks.

Right now OpenInviter currently supports these providers:

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Todays marks the release of Asset 1.0 for Drupal 5 and the first development release for Drupal 6. Many thanks go out to Rue89 and their complete dev team with Damien Cirotteau as their tech lead. They upgraded the module to Drupal 6 and contributed it all back to the community. Thank you!

Please note that the current dev version is pre-alpha and is more a starting point for people who want to jump in and help coding than for actual use. You can get the stable D5 and dev D6 version on the asset module project page.

Tested on:

• Drupal 5.x
• Views 1.6

When you have to filter a view by a content type, you have to use Exposed filters. Since default list is somewhat ugly (a select with some elements and CTRL to be pressed) we transform it in simple checkboxes.

Copy and paste this code into your template.php:

To hide operators dropdown, you have to check “lock operators” on views page.

See also:

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bertboerland posted a photo:

Venue: Trilby Studio, in Birmingham.
Cost: £2 (includes coffee/tea/munchies and wi-fi access)

I've not imposed any specific topic(s), with the hope that others can volunteer things?

Here are some things that we could do:

I've got Eclipse and Xdebug running on my Desktop machine and should be able to get it functioning on my laptop before next Friday. I could show that working?

drupal.org redesign discussion? Perhaps someone could lead on that one and be all prepared with the major issues and conclusions from the different iterations which have been shown so far?

Do you have a favourite module you'd like to demonstrate to us?

Don't be shy. Bring your laptop and let's turn it into a workshop - maybe we could break into groups to solve specific problems?

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Belgium.be, the official website of Belgium, is using Drupal at http://forum2010.belgium.be. This forum site has been put together in preparation for our Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2010.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is the fact that the site was built in less than 10 days. The Chancellorship of the Prime Minister picked Connexion to build this site with the help of Internet Architects.

The site is available in 4 languages so all Belgian citizens can express their opinions and engage in interactive discussions about European issues.

Marketing is sometimes the toughest part of starting a company. It won't matter if you have a great idea, product, service, or blog in my case, if you can't reach your target audience and make it as easy as possible for people to find you. One of the quickest ways of building traffic to your site is via blogging. It is also a perfect way to start building an audience before you even launch by writing about the industry you seek to enter, providing valuable information, or just simply writing about your experience starting your company. Blogging has exploded and even seeping into the corporate world. Did you know GE just launched their corporate blog ? In many ways blogging is starting to mold a new era where transparency, free information, and daily communication between companies and public are critical to build brands and companies that people are attracted to.

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Date: Dec. 11, 2008
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Event: Christmas Party
Address: 7742 Garfield Drive, North Delta, BC

Come and join the fun! We are meeting at Andrew's house for a Christmas Party.
Please bring a plate of dessert or munchies to share. Bring drinks, too.

Please go to http://drupal.meetup.com/18/ to RSVP.