Module development and code questions

Maybe I am too tired but I just can't figure out how you are supposed to do this. I am trying to use the tablesort and pager together with data form a form to list some things.

In my test I have one form with two fields (name_first,name_last), this form is created with drupals form-function and therefore the fields are put in edit['_name_']. The test selects persons from db and lists them in a table, so far everything works as expected. I was rather impressed by how easy it was, but then I realized that it wasn't (or more likely I am doing something wrong).

I guess I dont understand permissions...I created a new block v4.4 module with the following code from permissions.

function onthisdate_perm() {
return array("access onthisdate", "administer onthisdate");
}

These new perms appear in the list of perms....but I would have assumed that since I defined these new perms, an anon user would not be able to see my module unless I checked the anon user column in the permission list for the access onthisdate module....but anon can see the block module even with this unchecked.

What don't I understand here?

I'm using Drupal to build a site, and one of the requirements is that it should be easy to link to other people’s profiles (I've added a whole bunch of fields to the profile module so you get a mini biography about the person and their role in the organisation).

Currently to link to a person you need user/view/ what I'd like to do is /user/view/.

What’s the easiest way to achieve this? URL Aliasing only seems to work on nodes.

TIA.

P.

OK folks. For all of us who have had problems with image.module not creating thumbnails with ImageMagick on Windows. I have found the problem and it has nothing to do with the module itself.
The problem is twofold. 1) You must run ImageMagick from its installed directory without changing the name of the directory. It seems that when ImageMagick runs it expects it's config file to live in a prescribed place (c:\Progra~1\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8\cofic/etc..."). Maybe there's a setting in a file that could be changed but I can't find it.

I'm about to commission the development of a step-by-step instructions module. The idea is to make it easy for authors to create complete step-by-step guides including a list of materials, and supporting photographs.

You can view my specs at http://www.community-publishing.net/files/step-by-step.pdf

The finished module will be added to contrib, If you think you might want to use this module, please weigh in here. The more thought we put in at this stage the better the end result.

I have been playing around with google Image module and the rating module. I want to use the Image module to create an Image Gallery (which is easy), but then I want to enable voting on the Image modes.

Is is possible, easily? The Gallery module that already exists, I don't like that, infact, I couldn't make it work.

I already have coppermine gallery running on my website (Hotometer.com) on top of PHPNuke, but I want to port to Drupal which seems much more extensible for future planning.