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Google Ajax Search Module

The main googleajaxsearch module allows you to add inline searches over a number
of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, and News Search).

The module includes a macro generator which will allow you to interactively
create a googleajaxsearch inline tag suitable for using for a variety of purposes with this
module.

November Washington, DC, Drupal Meet-up

November Washington, DC, Drupal Meet-upWe are having a Drupal meet-up for everyone in the Washington, DC, area next week on Thursday, November 2nd at 7pm.



The folks at the Science Club (1136 19th St NW) have been gracious enough to get us a private space on the second floor again, so after some mingling we will take 20 minutes for three short presentation sprints and rock the mini projector :).

Migrating to Drupal (Features section of the November 2006 Issue of Linux Journal)

Abstract: Migrating to Drupal
By Abhijeet Chavan and Michael Jelks

Drupal is often mentioned in discussions about blogging tools or Web-based forum software. Sure, you can run a blog or an on-line forum using Drupal, but that is only part of what Drupal can do. Drupal is better described as a framework that provides an infrastructure for on-line collaboration and communities. It can be used to run corporate Web sites, intranets, news portals and many other types of Web sites.

The Drupal Project has its roots in an internal message board system built by University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert for his student dorm. In 2001, Dries released the software as an open-source project named Drupal (pronounced "droo-puhl"). Others started using Drupal and began contributing to the project. Drupal is built using open-source technologies: the PHP programming language and the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), Drupal can be downloaded and used for free. As with many successful open-source projects, Drupal is maintained and developed by a thriving user and development community. Five years old in January 2006, Drupal has evolved into a robust content management platform.

Working at a Web development firm, we have successfully built many Web sites for our clients based on Drupal. In this article, we share what we have learned, and we tell the story of our most complex Drupal project to date.

New Theme with No Koala! (and CSS dropdown menu)

No Koala! Drupal theme by Ross Kendall - http://rosskendall.com.

The No Koala! theme is a simple but elegant single-column phptemplate theme for the Drupal content management system. It's goal is to focus on accessibility and usability, and should be suitable for a blog or other simple websites.

The theme uses XHTML and CSS, and incorporates a CSS dropdown menu that is designed to be integrated with the Drupal menu system.

Tested with Drupal 4.7.4

Drupal function highlighting in jEdit

Because I've been using jEdit to write my modules, I decided it'd be a good idea to have Drupal functions in a different color. It gives me feedback when I spell the function correctly, and I can decide whether to search for an unfamiliar function in api.drupal.org or php.net.

Drupal-based education non-profit seeks advisory board members...

Congratulations to all the core developers on the continued success of Drupal! Our organization is especially grateful for your work, and we are eager to "give back" as we look to the future. But first, we dare to ask for even more help!

Open Educator (http://www.openeducator.org) develops and supports open-source knowledge-sharing communities that make it possible for every motivated K-12 teacher to be highly effective. Our strategy is to host curriculum development communities on our Drupal-based portal (using organic groups, collaborative book, and other modules that enhance knowledge-sharing). In the future, we aim to fund and manage education-related Drupal development projects and cover our administrative costs by contracting with schools to produce and host school portals. Our free, central, open-source curriculum development portal will be a hub for school portals, with syndicated content and a shared user base. Our organization will play a triple role: to support the professional growth of teachers, to develop effective free curriculum resources, and to develop and support effective and affordable software solutions for schools. Our founders (including myself) possess the background of classroom teaching, programming and educational leadership, and we are eager to bring this perspective to bear in enabling the "open-source" model to enhance the effectiveness of k-12 teachers.

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