[documentation] Fwd: [Drupal newsletter] Drupal newsletter for Summer, 2006 - DRAFT 1

Wed Aug 16 22:11:06 UTC 2006

Newsletters are difficult, aren't they?

I'd like to see more tips and tricks, nifty things you can do with drupal.

You can steal a page out of the handbook, if no one volunteers anything.

Anisa.

On 8/17/06, Robin Monks <devlinks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ------------DRUPAL NEWSLETTER FOR SUMMER, 2006 - DRAFT 1------------
>
> DRUPAL DOCS - DRAFT #1 - More content is needed for this newsletter.  Your
> contributions are extremely valuable and help make Drupal stand out
> against the
> *other* CMSs.
> Please help make this edition of the newsletter be all that it can be!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Welcome to the Drupal Newsletter for Summer, 2006!  Over the past couple
> months
> Drupal has made great advancements with the inclusion of a new installer
> in core
> (see Karoly's Quickies below for more).  This will probably be the one
> greatest
> feature of Drupal 4.8/5.0.
>
> In related news, Nick Lewis has outlined the biggest developer mistakes in
> a
> section he's titled \"The Road to Drupal Hell\" [
> http://drupal.org/node/77487].
> This amusing look at poor development habits gives an excellent overview
> of
> how to code well, by showing you how not to code.  A must for Drupal
> Developers/Hackers.
>
> This sections will be expanded.
>
> Robin Monks.
> Drupal Marketing Coordinator
>
> *In this issue...*
>
>   * User Space
>
>   * Content Needed
>
>   * Drupal Sightings
>
>   * We need sightings!
>
>   * Dev Zone
>
>   * The Drupal Development Quickies – See what's new in Drupal's codebase.
>
> ------------USER SPACE------------
>
> ---------- Want to tell us your 2 cents? ----------
> Our entire newsletter is written by the
> community; without content donations
> and feedback from people like you, we
> wouldn't be here.  Contribute here:
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>
> ------------DRUPAL SIGHTINGS------------
>
> MOMS RISING [HTTP://MOMSRISING.ORG/]
>
> Moms Rising is an exceptionally well-built Drupal site built for a
> petition to
> help new mothers, from the site:
>
> The United States is one of only four countries (out of 168) to not have
> any
> national form of paid leave for new moms. This petition supports a bill,
> titled
> The Balancing Act, which includes paid leave for all new parents.
>
> COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN PORTS [HTTP://CLEANPORTS.ORG/]
>
> Communities for Clean ports is a community of activists proposing stronger
> legislation and tougher laws on ports.
>
> SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION [HTTP://SUNLIGHTFOUNDATION.COM/]
>
> The Sunlight Foundation uses Drupal to power it's blogs and community
> tools.
> From the website:
>
> The Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using
> the
> revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to
> enable
> citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected
> representatives
> are doing...
>
> ------------DEV ZONE------------
>
> DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT QUICKIES
>
> My bzr log shows more than 260 commits in the three months since Drupal
> 4.7.0.
> That's a daily average of almost three. Thanks to everyone who worked hard
> writing, reviewing and committing!
>
> Here are some of the commits that caught my eyes reading the log at the
> Montreal airport waiting for my flight to Vancouver:
>
>   * It was always problem to change links returned by modules. We resorted
> to
> various string hacks in our themes. No more [http://drupal.org/node/18260
> ],
> thanks to Ber, m3averck et al.
>
>   * Block visibility is now controllable by role [http://drupal.org/node/18018
> ]
> thanks to: dww, nedjo, tostinne, luke et al
>
>   * Caching logic is now in a separate file [http://drupal.org/node/67675].
> We
> expect that you soon will be able to use files and "memcached" to cache
> stuff.
> Thanks to myself (chx)
>
>   * GUID support was added [http://drupal.org/node/61433] to prevent
> duplicate
> posts being inserted.  Thanks to: Steve Dondley
>
>   * Your non-core modules and themes now can go to sites/all
> [http://drupal.org/node/44920]. Thanks to: Crell et al
>
>   * Mails now can be changed [http://drupal.org/node/71194] thanks to
> Goba.
>
>   * admin/settings is now vastly reorganized [http://drupal.org/node/72284
> ]
> thanks to: Dries
>
>   * Modules have been moved to their own directories.
>
>   * An initial install system for Drupal core [
> http://drupal.org/node/68926].
> Special thanks goes to Kieran Lal (amazon) for sponsoring and driving this
> patch forward. Adrian Roussow (adrian) has written the original in the
> beginning of 2004, Jeremy Andrews (jeremy), Nedjo Rodgers (nedjo) and
> Angie
> Byron (webchick) working on it under the CivicSpace umbrella for 1.5years,
> then Karoly Negyesi (chx) moved it to close to core with the help of Jeff
> Eaton
> (eaton) and others. Finally Steven Wittens (steven) took over and brought
> it
> home.
>
>   * Added support for additional fields in blogapi
> [http://drupal.org/node/38178 ] via a couple new hooks. Thanks to: Eaton.
>
>   * We removed gender-specific pronouns [http://drupal.org/node/75594].
> Thanks
> to: eafarris
>
>   * Total administration section reform [ http://drupal.org/node/72079].
> Thanks
> to: merlinofchaos
>
>   * A lot of properties of content tyes are now editable
> [http://drupal.org/node/62340 ] and you can create as many simple node
> types as
> you want. Thanks to: chx, webchick, Jaza, Eaton, mathieu, and Drumm.
>
>   * User mass editing [http://drupal.org/node/75582 ] is now possible
> thanks to
> hunmonk.
>
> Karoly Negyesi,
> [ [http://drupal4hu.com] ]
>
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