Module development and code questions

Using the mail.module and loving it except that it eats of bit of the code when sending a link (both in plain and html options).

Here is some test content for the email and here comes a <a href=ttp://www.example.com" target=self">link</a>.

Hi,

I have a node I've developed that is pretty much entirely custom pages, as it's an interface to an ldap directory and uses no database info. When I click on 'Create Content' in drupal, it gives me the option to add a node of this type. This is totally useless since it doesn't use any nodes, so is there anyway I can remove it from the Create Content page?

User terraces (Alexandre Passant), please leave a comment and turn on your contact form. You have a "tag cloud" module queued for development. Ber Kessels already has the tagadelic module which seems to offer the same/nearly the same functionality.

Please coordinate and submit patches to Ber, or ask Ber if you can become the maintainer.

For a project I'm working on, I've created a new, highly-flexible module for rating nodes. (Yes there seem to be a few of those, but I didn't realize that when I started writing. :-) ) It allows for unlimited user-based rating axes on any node and unlimited "calculated axes" based on those for totals. It's still a bit rough and could use some cleanup and documenting, but it's functional. I'll be adding more calculation options shortly as well, but wanted to get it posted for others to see and offer feedback.

I'm new to drupal but I'm already hooked. I figured out how to do something I thought was going to be hard.. but it was very easy. I'm very impressed with drupal and hopefully this post will be usefull to someone in the future.

I wanted the front_page mod to show only stories that are "promoted to the front page" AND list the sticky stories before all others. By default front_page shows ALL stories and orders by the time they were posted.

the code:

I have written a custom module which tracks my client's customer cases. The case data is stored in a separate database table. I would like to add a comment thread for each case record. What's the approach to implement this? Should the case records be treated as nodes? Is it a matter of adding a corresponding record to the node table for each case?

All comments/suggestions appreciated.