The views module is what always brings a smile to peoples faces when we do our Drupal training, even the most die-hard anti-CMS I-want-to-write-everything-myself-in-raw-PHP developer grudgingly offers up some praise when we do a demonstration.
We've been using views since the dark ages of Drupal 4 all the way up to it's inclusion as a core module in Drupal 8. I don't think we have ever built a site without at least a couple of custom views, and most have a few custom views handlers thrown in to handle those cheeky listing or exporting situations.
We've blogged a bunch about Drupal views over the years, you can read it all below ...
Building multilingual sites in Drupal using the i18n module always throws up a few fun problems to be solved. One of the most awkward being views. The i18n views integration module does an excellent job of allowing you to return only nodes matching a particular language, but it doesn't help when it comes to translating the view itself - and more importantly allowing a view to site nicely into multiple positions in the menu (one...
By default the Drupal event module will provide a nice calander block, listing the days of the week accross the top using 3 letter abbreviations (mon, tue etc). This little theme snippet will override this default behaviour and display the first letter of each day of the week (i.e. M T W) etc. Pop the following into your template.php file and you should be in business function phptemplate_event_calendar_month($op, $header, $rows, $attributes = array(), $caption =...