News and announcements

This is just a short announcement to hail the arrival of:

http://www.phpfreelancer.org

The site is also known as http://www.phpnukefreelance.com and caters for all things PHP.

If anyone wants help with a website, project, documentation, graphics etc. then sign up today as a webmaster (provider).

Looking to earn some extra cash as a php programmer then sign up today and start looking straight away.

I imagine some people may have come across this article already, but if you haven't it's an interesting read.

A NewsForge 'Top Story'!
Shopping cart comparison: Drupal's E-Commerce vs. Mambo's mambo-phpShop
http://business.newsforge.com/business/05/09/30/1730250.shtml

A Google Map filter module has now been released. It is available on the modules page.

This module consists of two parts. First an interactive page which allows you to build a Google Map by changing the size, moving the page around changing the magnification and changing the type of map and controls. You can also add up to 3 markers and up to three routes (made up of points connected by lines) on each map.

The second part is a filter that converts the macro into the javascript and html required to display the Google map in your node.

On my Vancouver.CycleHome.org website you can see the macro creation tool and a node with a map inserted.

Note that if you downloaded a version of this module that I had uploaded yesterday, I recommend you get the latest version as this fixes a number of little things and improves the interface for the macro creation page.

Also a minor update to my Tables Module was uploaded as well. This was a minor update to allow the tables to be formatted using the theme tables formatting.

The Tables Module is a simple filter that lets you insert a table using "|" to separate columns and then formatting as an HTML table. It includes a number of predefined styles for the tables to achieve fancy formatted tables.

They've just released a whitepaper on RSS usage together with a publishers guide to rss.

A brief summary for people not bothered to read it:

Only 12% of those surveyed were aware of RSS, and only 4% have knowingly used RSS. 27% of respondents had interacted with RSS content in personalized start pages such as My Yahoo! but did not realize they were using RSS.

Is there a good writer out there who will review and rate the top 5 CMS open source software projects? You can get your name in print and hav e some fun at the same time. If so, send your resume and sample of your writing to me at mdean@xn1.com. Thanks

As an interim solution for people wanting to use taxonomy vocabularies in their users profile fields i've taken a half baked patch and finished it off, including adding full browsing by taxonomy values.

The module replaces the existing profile.module bundled with Drupal, and also requires an additional MySQL table adding.

The packaged module is available for download from http://www.ixis.co.uk/drupal-modules/profile at the moment.

The module is developed for Drupal 4.6