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In an article on ZDNet Australia, there is an article titled How to choose an Open Source CMS by Seth Gottlieb. It covers 15 open source products, Drupal 4.6.5 among them (page 27).

The white paper (PDF format) itself is on Seth's site.

(or any other removable media such as a USB stick). This might not be of very wide interest but it could help someone at some stage.

"What happened on your birthday? What happened on this day in history?"

I developed a new drupal module. Suggestions/feedbacks are welcomed.

Demo http://para.ro/en/today (two enabled blocks on the right)
Download http://para.ro/en/node/335

In order to make my life a bit easier when I wear my drupal site implementation/customization hat, I wrote this simple but dangerous perl script. (It was written in a day, so it is more a working prototype than anything else.)

It is designed to populate a database that it parses from the contents of the drupal modules webpage with module name, (part of) the module description, and the download url for the module. (give it its own db, don't try to have it share your drupal site's db)

The database file I am distributing with the module is based on last weekend's page (jan 13th) of 4.6 modules

Used on the command line, it can be used to simply search for and/or install modules.

drupal_module_installer.pl clear
will remove the contents of the default db so you can repopulate it or change which version you are working with

drupal_module_installer.pl update
will download and parse the module page for the version specified in the config section

for example:
drupal_module_installer.pl info wysiwyg

returns the following:

Results for modules that match your query: wysiwyg
Htmlarea
Allows Drupal to use the HTMLArea WYSIWYG formatter to replace text area fields.
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quicktags
The quicktags module adds buttons above all your textareas. It uses on-the-fly generated javascript to do the magick. It is not a wysiwyg editor, but something far simpler: It simply inserts the basic HTML into your textarea.

What's new from today:

Voting. You can vote for sites posted here. Show your attention to developer. Will he / she like it or not! And there are a block to help navigate most voted sites.

Service menu. You can add a post to digg, del.icio.us or reddit or quick search technorati on this post.

Hi all,

so here it is, my contribution for drupal. I've just created a port of SmileTAG into drupal module.

SmileTAG is an Ajax shoutbox which focuses on template flexibility, lot of themes available.

Smart auto-refresh automatically refreshes whenever a new message is posted, allows for live (almost) chatting from within your browser.

Full featured Admin Panel, Message Moderation, Flood guard, IP address/nick banning and a lot more features available.

I've just submit it as a project.