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Yet another IBM Drupal article

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource10/index.html

Hello,

We have been working with Drupal to develop a community site and are nearly complete. There are a few areas we need assistance with so that we can begin concentrating 100% on content development.

We are looking for a Drupal developer/designer who has experience using the ”views” module as well as a person who has experience with custom module development. Someone who has experience integrating the gallery module would be a big plus. Experience with the Drupal’s PHPTemplate system is a necessity.

The next article by the IBM Documentation Team has hit the presses:

I just wanted to make a quick announcement about a 5.0 module I packaged up today based on some older code by wrunt and made a little more functional. The Javascript was also tidied up and slimmed down using jQuery. What you'll find is a module that for site owners lets you enable a "check all" checkbox for the comment, post, and user forms and for developers lets you add checkall elements to your forms that can select or deselect all the checkboxes in a group based on the element ID.

This might be of interest to the drupal community:

http://www.openspml.org/

"OpenSPML Overview

Welcome to OpenSPML.org—a Web site dedicated to the promotion and distribution of an open source client code that supports the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) developed by the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC). OpenSPML is a cooperative initiative by independent software vendors and implementers of the SPML version 1.0 specification. Initially developed in Java™, the OpenSPML client code is expected to be available in other languages in the near future. For more information, read the SPML FAQ.
About SPML

The Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) has been formed under OASIS to define an industry standard around the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), an XML-based expression syntax for the query and exchange of user, account and resource provisioning requests.

Service provisioning refers to the "preparation beforehand" of IT systems' materials or supplies required to carry out a specific activity. It goes beyond the initial "contingency" of providing resources, to encompass the entire lifecycle management of these resources. This includes the provisioning of digital services such as user accounts and access privileges on systems, networks and applications, as well as th

TAPIr has been released to the public this afternoon and is ready to be put to use. TAPIr, developed initially for use in the Übercart project, is a module that defines a Tables API for use in any Drupal module. Tables defined by TAPIr are dynamic, meaning any field (TAPIr term for a table column) can be turned on or off, repositioned, and renamed. Furthermore, they are extensible, so third party modules can make further fields available to a table. Best of all, the code is lightweight and very easy to use.