Module development and code questions

I'm posting this here and not in "issues" since it doesn't seem like anyone else has this problem.

Event Module 4.6
Site-wide/Default time zone: "-5"
Event time zone input/display: "Use the sitewide time zone"
Configurable time zones: "Enabled"
My Time zone: "Default"
2 Test accounts: "Default"

I'm tinkering with my first module. Well, really tweaking the old sso module to suit my purposes and will likely eventually release it.

The existing module uses the _init() hook to run code every time a Drupal page gets loaded, regardless of the path. In general, newer modules use the _menu() hook to designate what to do depending on the path provided.

But I didn't see any documentation for the menu hook saying how to do two things:

1) Designate an action that should be taken regardless of the path.

Hi,

I am completly new to drupal and try to understand the node_example.module . I copied the exact code from the node_example example and did run the necessary SQL. I can activate it but when I try to create content it shows up on the left hand navigation but nothing on the right side. I searched the forums and a few other people had the same problem but their solutions didnt seem to work for me.
As far as I understand things so far, the error should be in the node_example_form code ?

Also I noticed that node_example_form uses this code to create the forms:

It doesn't work. No errors, but no image either. I have missed out on a lot of possible new members to my website because of it. It seems to work intermitantly, even with GD2.

Is there something better? Or a newer version not posted here that someone has?

I would like some feedback on my service_links.module that adds Digg, del.icio.us and Technorati links to nodes.

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/frjo/service_...

First I want to have suggestion for a better name :-).

You can see the links "digg | bookmark | cosmos" in action on http://xdeb.org/drupaldev.

Hi.

I recently added a couple elements ($node->title and $node->body) to the email sent out by the forward module and for the most part it is working as expected.

However, there are instances where the db -> email conversion makes for some garbled punctuation or other characters.

For instance an apostrophe turns to "’" and a dash turns to "—".

Also, I'd like to construct or find a set of filters that change html tags to email-friendly characters.