Despite a quiet couple of weeks in the Drupal world, Andrew, Ryan, and Mike still found 5 things to talk about including a lively debate about what's wrong with Drupal. The 30-minute podcast also covers a super-quick way to tell if a site is built on Drupal, a Mac OSX-only Drupal notifier, Googlebot's voracious appetite, and a Drupal meta-list. The picks of the week include a couple of tried-and-true modules as well as one that looks awfully familiar.
5 Stories
- Chx's rebuttal to James Walker's "Why I hate Drupal" DrupalCon talk. Hysterical point-by-point tongue-in-cheek (I hope!) rebuttal: http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/192
- Is this site built with Drupal - http://isthissitebuiltwithdrupal.com/ - simple, silly, quick - Firefox plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10493
- Drupal Notifier - http://myzonelabs.com/blog/drupal-notifier-desktop-notification-app-for… - Andrew will install, test, and report next podcast
- Googlebot likes Drupal 6 - http://association.drupal.org/node/332
- A list of Drupal Showcase Directories - http://groups.drupal.org/node/19795
Picks of the Week - every podcast we each pick a module, theme, or other Drupal-related "thing" that we'd like to spread the word about.
- Mike - Flag by Nathan Haug (quicksketch) - Bookmarks, buddylists, and global flags are all possible with this super-flexible module. Check out Mike's recent article about the Flag module.
- Andrew - Taxonomy Access Control by Keve (keve)- Allows restricting of access to nodes based off of taxonomy and role
- Ryan - Views Rotator by Matt Farina (mfer)- The Views Rotator module provides a Views style plugin to display items by rotating through the items displaying one at a time. The cycling of images happens via JavaScript (jQuery) with a number of configurable options. See also Views Cycle or Views Slideshow. To see a big comparison of modules that slide or rotate, check out this comparison of Drupal slideshow modules
Site of the Week - every podcast we collectively pick a (usually new) Drupal site to be highlighted and discussed. This week's pick is the official site of the UK Office of the European Parliament - http://www.europarl.org.uk/
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