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State of Drupal Dashboards

Posted 14. May 2010 - 15:39 by Morgenstern

Some days ago I hole a presentation at the Drupal User Group in Hannover about the current state of dashboards in Drupal. I'm currently starting to work on my bachelor thesis and dashboards for information integration in a corporation context will be part of it. 

You can find my presentation slides attached to this blog post or on slideshare.

State of drupal dashboards
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Drupalize your Firefox!

Posted 1. April 2009 - 16:20 by Morgenstern

Mozilla Labs just published "Personas" a new add-on for Firefox which you can use to easily skin your browser. You might have noticed that I'm a Drupal-addict, which made me come up with the following Drupal Persona for Firefox:

Screenshot of Drupal Persona in Action

This makes your favourite browser (that is Firefox, isn't it?) look more drupalish than ever before!

I have won a Drupal Sackmesser 2.0

Posted 20. February 2009 - 12:40 by Morgenstern

Guess what, I just won a fancy Swiss Sackmesser 2.0! Some weeks ago I've been to the Drupal Camp in Cologne, where a Swiss Drupal-using online media company called Previon raffled an awesome giveaway to the audience: A Swiss army knife combined with an MP3 player.

DrupalCamp Cologne 2009

Posted 7. February 2009 - 22:38 by Morgenstern

Good work takes time!?! Finally, I finished my review of the DrupalCamp:

About three weeks ago I have been to the DrupalCamp in Cologne. This was my first Drupal-Community meeting (without taking into account all those local user group meetings) and I really enjoyed getting to know some Drupal people in real life. Apart from that I also took part in several interesting sessions, which I'm going to review here:

Saturday:

  • Sign: evolution11:00 Automated Content Enrichment and Autonomous Cross Content Communication
    _ben from Zeit Online spoke about his vision of Drupal content (i.e. nodes) being able to learn from each other and from other content in the web. His idea is that every time a node is viewed it starts looking for similar content inside the same Drupal website but also tries to find related content on Wikipedia, Flickr, Last.fm and what have you. Some of this functionality could be accomplished by using Open Calais, which I already use in this blog. Open Calais is a webservice which you send your content to and get appropriate tags back. Unfortunately they don't support German content, yet.
    However, the idea of semantic blog networks and automated content enrichment both sound like really interesting ideas to me. This session was a really good and visionary start into what Drupal might be able to accomplish in the future.
    See ben's blog for a very detailed description of his vision.

 

  • 12:00 Fields in Core
    Talking about future Drupal goodies (especially the more technical part of it) one has to mention the upcoming Version 7 of Drupal. Core Developers have started planning, coding and testing a Field API for Drupal 7. Using this API it will be possible to attach fields to every Drupal content you could imagine, including nodes of course (as you know it from CCK), but also users (thus reinventing the profile module) and comments etc. Attending this session was huge fun because you were able to experience some long-time Drupal developers and get to know about their most recent work.
    Edit: While I was writing this blog post this feature got commited to Drupal 7. Yeah!

Drupal View - Unpublished Content

Posted 27. January 2009 - 19:51 by Morgenstern

On some of my websites I use to write content without publishing it right away. Thus I often create a custom view that displays imcomplete (i.e. unpublished) nodes inside a block that is only visible for me and other Administrators. This block includes a direkt edit link to every unpublished node, which makes it easy to access and directly edit your content drafts.

Of course this view can also be extended by using taxonomy filters via url arguments or by creating a page view that displays content filtered or sorted by author.

Drupal User Group Hannover meeting

Posted 15. January 2009 - 21:09 by Morgenstern

On Tuesday I had the pleasure to meet the local Drupal User Group (DUG) from Hannover. I have been planing to go there since September but unfortunately I have an university course in informatics scheduled at the same time. However, this week I decided to get to know some new Drupalistas and (as expected) that turned out to be a brilliant decision.

Some short notes on things I learned:

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Posted 8. January 2009 - 10:53 by Morgenstern
Cover of the book Content of the book

I just published my first Review on Amazon.com (roughly translated from German):

Ideal starting point into the world of modules

I have used Drupal on several websites for years. Only the Development of custom modules, i.e. individual extensions of Drupal, was never really clear to me. All those online tutorials, documentation and API descriptions were too complex and unstructured.

The new WYSIWYG module for Drupal (TinyMCE Editor)

Posted 11. December 2008 - 22:56 by Morgenstern

Recently I came across a new contributed module of Drupal (released Dec 1st 08) that makes it even easier to include a WYSIWYG-editor of your choice. The WYSIWYG API fully integrates with Drupal's Input Formats, which makes a really nice tool. WYSIWYG API makes it possible to show different supported WYSIWYG-editors to different roles on different selected input formats. Crazy!

Here's how it works:

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