News and announcements

An extension of the Core Taxonomy.module page display functionality has been released on the Ixis IT website.

The taxonomy_vocabulary module gives site administrators an additional way to display all terms from a vocabulary without having to manually build up ?q=taxonomy/term/id urls.

If you are displaying all types of news on a single taxonomy page you'll have made a url alias to taxonomy/term/1+2+3+4 etc. to display all the vocabulary terms.

Now that Upcoming.org is owned by Yahoo! and is thus very likely to become a very busy center of event/calendar/venue activity, it is also time to take a closer look at the great Upcoming.org integration that was done this summer as part of the Google (ironic?) Summer of Code project.

Let me put this in different terms than before. With Google Maps, there is an API and everybody goes gaga because they can use the API to extract information from the Google server (in this case, about maps). With Upcoming.org, there is also an API, and you can use that API to extract info from the Upcoming.org server (in this case, information about venues and events). Now here's the big difference; YOUR site, with the upcoming.org module, also has an API, and people can query YOUR site just like they query Upcoming.org about YOUR events and YOUR venues etc. This is like RSS for events. You can also add events using the API. This is great for performing artists who want to keep lots of people updated about their schedules.

If you have this module in use, please speak up so we can all come and see it! I know that eventually, when enough people grok this, it is going to be mega hot.

This is the central posting coordinating an effort to get "Product Variations" added to the eCommerce module.

If you like the idea or have some extra money to donate after Katrina, then visit this page, http://donorge.org/d_items/view/324

For background information on this patch please refer to....
http://drupal.org/node/14068
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http://www.tejasa.com/node/87

Aggregator2 is now in CVS

http://drupal.org/node/32384

"Aggregator2 allows for the collection and display of RSS and ATOM feeds as first class nodes withing the Drupal framework. Now the content offered by RSS need not be limited to side blocks or static display units as is presently the case with Drupal and almost all other CMS applications.

Static RSS blocks are now a staple of the semantic web. But in some respects this use of the technology (display only) is more reminiscent of web 1.0 (html ) than web 2.0 (data driven and aware). Aggregator2 changes all that and brings RSS items into the content management system proper. This functionality exposes a number of interesting possibilities for publishers. The most obvious are things like topic aggregation however this is just the beginning. In effect it creates a distributed publishing system.

If you like the blocks you can still have them as Aggregator2 allows the user to turn on block creation in the settings. None of the standard RSS aggregation and display has been removed -- only extended and/or made more flexible. Other options include the setting the number of feeds updated per cron run to minimize the possibility of systems slowing due to overly long feed updates.

The module comes with a few add on modules that may be enabled at the users discretion. Future releases will incorporate some of these modules functions based on the feedback from this release. Associated modules include:

Hello Drupal users,

I've developed a new application (Pong) that allows you to ping blog tracking services from your desktop when you've updated your blog/feed. It's fast, can be loaded onto portable media to ping from wherever you post, and it removes intermediate servers that are in between you and your destination. I'm looking for individuals who are interested in helping with the beta test. If that includes you, stop by to learn more about it:

http://pongpong.org