I previously demonstrated how to build a personal nodetracker using CCK, Views, and the Views Bonus Pack.
But it's no fun to have to open up your website, log in, go into the create content section, and manually type in all the information every time you want to keep track of a Drupal.org node.
Well, with a bit of Javascript hackery and the prepopulate module, we are freed from such dreary tasks.
This can be used for any sort of node type. I'm using the node tracker here as a generic example.
I've received a number of emails since the launch of What Would Drupal Do regarding my personal nodetracker (see the righthand side of the screen, towards the bottom) [...]
Here is how it's done.
Ayman has written an excellent tutorial on how to create a custom portal interface with Drupal.
Take a look at the demo, and once your head has stopped swimming with all the possibilities, head on over to the tutorial to see how it's done.
Super coolness bonus points: He is updating it to make use of jQuery rather than Scriptaculous for Drupal 5.0
heck ya!
IBM Developer Works has updated their in depth "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative website" series.
The new article focuses on building a Drupal module.
Part 6: Building a custom module in Drupal (Sept. 12, 2006)
Part 5: Getting started with Drupal (Aug. 29, 2006)
Part 4: Building your development environment in Linux (Aug. 11, 2006)
I regularly find myself digging up the proper nodes to explain to someone how to apply a patch either from a shell command line or locally on a windows machine.
I also find myself always needing to dig up the information on the proper command line syntax for generating a patch for submission.
So here's the scoop, so I don't have to do all that oh-so-complicated searching everytime ;)
