If you’ve been using Drupal for any amount of time you’ve probably ran into the problem of needing to go to the access page each time you enable a module to ensure the admin users have permission to make full use of it. This is a module that I was planning to write, but then I discovered JacobSingh had already made it; Admin Role is…
In my wishlist last month, one of the items I had on my list that didn’t already have a solution, was the ability to have a message when a user created a node that would present them with a quick way to add another node of the same type. Today, I’m happy to say I’ve created a new contrib module that generates…

[Dec 18-08: I’ve updated my list below with solutions and issue URLs, where possible.] Yesterday, Steve Dondley (owner/founder @ Prometheus Labor) and myself were working on some very repetitive work for a client site; discussing how we can’t wait for the intelligent CMS to come along and do all this repetitive work for us. This got me thinking. A lot of the…
I’m looking for a flash (or AJAX) banner rotator for a project I’m working on. Something like this. Does anyone know of anything like that that is either free or open source?

It’s something I’m asked every now and then. “If I’m just making a blog site, should I just use WordPress, or should I still use Drupal?” To be fair, it all comes down in the end to a matter of personal taste. But, there are still some factual points on either side of the Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog argument. Firstly, some…
This just made me laugh. Thanks to Glazblog for sharing! Also worth noting that the JavaScript engine in the next version of Firefox will be FASTER than Google Chrome. 🙂
It sounds kind of like Star Trek, but trust me, this is a lot more exciting! Drupal 7 will access databases using PDO (PHP Data Objects), which allows Drupal to support many different Database Servers in the future (and will bring us one step closer to Drupal running on a SQLite3 flat-file database, woohoo!). A few people covered the patch arriving in…
One of my oldest non-committed Drupal core features is the deceptively-simply named “Add Referrer Banning“. It’s been around since 2005 when 4.6/4.7 was cool 🙂 It’s been re-rolled 5 times, the last to make it compatible with the HEAD that will be 7.x, that was March 3 of this year. Since then core has changed a lot, and most importantly, the core…