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Posted on 18th March 2011
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I made a new Drupal 7 module today... the CTools Path Access plugin. It is a very simple module that provides a CTools access plugin for using the access rules of another path. For example, you might set up a custom Panels search page in Page Manager, and just want to use the same access rules that the default Drupal search page uses at /search. I have submitted the plugin as a patch for CTools...

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Posted on 15th February 2011
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Have you ever wanted to create a 'queue' of content that would be published at a regular interval? I have. It seems like this should be one of those things that should be nice and easy to do with Drupal: Set up a nodequeue, schedule some kind of rule to pop the first item off the front of the queue and publish it. But try as I might there just didn't seem to be any...

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Posted on 19th January 2011
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Certified to Rock is a site that allows you to look-up Drupal.org user names, and see their 'certified to rock' score. CertifiedToRock.com is a way that community members and employers can get a sense of someone's involvement with the Drupal project. The site uses a custom algorithm that gathers publicly available information which is then distilled down into a score on a scale from one to eleven. I've been wanting to build an easy way...

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Posted on 24th November 2010
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Views is the king in Drupal land when it comes to making lists of your data, rightly so, it does a wonderful job of making it easy to choose the data you want to list. It also allows you to render your list in various forms, lists, tables. RSS feeds or even jump menus. So if you want to make a list and render it as CSV or XML, then you naturally turn to views...