What's been on my mind

The third Drupal Johannesburg meetup took place on the 19 July 2008 at Obsidian Systems, and was well attended, by around 25 people (I didn't count, just guessing). While we are still feeling our way around the structure of these meetings, this month's meetup was a step in the right direction. Andre from Cerebra gave a workshop to demonstrate the power of Drupal's CCK module. During the workshop he created a site which allows users to post reviews of cell phones. Some of the modules he used were: contemplate for quick theming of content type data - we were warned not to leave the generated code in contemplate, but to then create a node template and paste the code there, as this is more maintainable because it's not stored in the database. He used the automatic node titles module (plus token) to create useful, and search engine friendly titles.

Planet Drupal aggregates drupal related blog posts from a number of drupal sites and bloggers. I've only recently discovered it, but have already found some incredibly useful drupal posts here. For example, this one shows you how to allow "everyone, including “anonymous users”, to be informed of updates to nodes right inside their content", something very similar to what a client has just asked me to do.