News and announcements

From the Project desctiption.

The Block Bar module is a block module that acts as a container for other Drupal blocks. The module builds an Outlook style collapsible menu bar from the child blocks with each child block representing one panel within the bar. Multiple BlockBars can be created. Each BlockBar can be set with "sticky panels" which will remember the panel's open/close state between page refreshes. Also, an option can be set that will only allow one panel to be open at a time for a given bar.

Drupal Theme Generator version 2.0
©2005 by Sam Raheb
November 3, 2005
Designed for use with Drupal versions 4.6.1 or greater
Supports both PHPtemplate and Xtemplate Themes

Features:
• Generate an unlimited amount of site themes for Drupal CMS type websites
• Easily create both PHPtemplate and Xtemplate Themes in minutes
• Supports both flat (non-graphical) and graphic enhanced themes
• Includes META tag support
• Preview your themes on you local computer without having to upload the themes to your Drupal site
• Includes an HTML Color assistant
• Includes 7 graphically enhanced 3D website themes
• Includes a theme development test area
• Easy to use spreadsheet interface

System Requirements:
• Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003 with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support
• Any Internet web browser

Why developed it?
I have been using Drupal since May 2005 and noticed that there is a short supply of themes available for users. Also, since this time there are very few new themes introduced. It takes quite a bit of time to develop a single new theme, therefore I can understand why. For these reasons, I decided to write a program in Microsoft Excel that generates both the PHPtemplate and Xtemplate Themes based on user design inputs.

Where to get the Program
http://xlecom.com/?q=node/117

Included Themes:

• 3dblue

CivicActions, is looking to for Drupal / PHP developers ASAP...

We just landed some major clients including Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown
for Attorney General, and Campaign for California's Future
(http://couragecampaign.org/).

Basically, we're a Network of progressive, technology revolutionaries
empowering people and communities to self-organize through free and open
source software. We have about 10 full-time contractors from SF to NY to
Moscow. All developers work from home. We go on retreats together every
3 months; and we just got back from Amsterdam last week:
http://flickr.com/groups/civicactions/

We're looking for folks who are super self-motivated, excited about
progressive values, and can make kick-ass sites...

You have a minimum of 3-5 years as a web applications developer and at
least a year with PHP. You understand what it takes to develop a data
driven web application from front to back and your strength is in
building modular code that gets the job done. You love FOSS and spend a
good amount of time hanging out with other folks who do as well. You
should have demonstrable experience with some mix off:
*nix, PHP, MySQL, SQL, Apache, CVS, bugzilla You should be familiar
with at least some of the following: Extreme Programming, RAD, OOA/D/P,
Design Patterns, UML, DB normalization You should be happy to work from
home.

Other examples of our clients:

hi everyone....

Userplane just came out with a drupal plugin. I am personally excited about using it one day when my site is complete. They had some kind words to say about drupal as well. check it out:


Userplane Announces Drupal Plugin and New Feature for Webchat

Userplane recently expanded the market reach of its free Instant Webchat application through the release of plug-in modules for community software platforms. With plug-ins already available for Simple Machines, vBulletin, Mambo and PHP-Nuke, Userplane is excited to announce the addition of the new Drupal plug-in.

This exciting new release will allow Drupal developers and administrators to quickly and easily add Userplane instant messaging and chat to their sites. Drupal has a rapidly growing developer community that is continuously improving the platform’s usability and functionality. It is fast becoming one of the best and most popular open-source solutions for user-contributed, content-based communities.

The Userplane plug-in installation includes pre-written code modules, available for free download to allow quick and easy installation. Since these site software systems have existing admin panels, site administrators can control all Userplane application features and functionality with ease within one location.By opening up its API to these platforms, Userplane embraces the open source community making Webchat and Webmessenger simple add-ons for any website.

I added flags capability (you must use your own flags, the flags directory location is configurable) and I changed the ipl_country function to be useful without the ip_locator block enabled.
http://www.para.ro/en/node/130