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The new Drush module: Install and update modules from the command line!

Frando — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:34:30 -0700

I just released the first beta version of the new and redesigned drush module.

Drush stands for the Drupal Shell: A command-line shell for Drupal. It was originally developed by Arto Bendiken for Drupal 4.7, but unfortunately never got out of a mostly unusable alpha stage back then.

Recently, I picked up the project and redesigned many parts - drush.module itself now only provides an API that allows other modules expose command line functionality in a super-easy way (more on that propably soon in another post).
Now, also included in this beta release is the drush_pm.module: The Drupal Shell Package Manager. Sounds interesting?

unbiskant.org has a new theme!

Frando — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:43:30 -0700

Finally, it’s done!

I’ve been working on this theme sporacially over the last two months or so, and now I finally feel confident enough to put it “live”.

So, unbiskant.org is still moving slowly, but it’s moving. Some more content, soon, too, and a co-writer… so stay tuned! ;)

Schema API in Drupal!

Frando — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:38:11 -0700

I’ve been away for the weekend, and have just checked the Drupal issue queue, and …
the Schema API patch got commited! Yay!

About a year back, I started to work on some functions to abstract table/field creation and alteration - first patch on May 13, 2006. It didn’t make it into Drupal 5, and I thought about all this some more, and other people did so, too.

Get reflected

Frando — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:12:25 -0700

After several issues and heaps of discussion on the mailing list, I just posted an actual patch that tries to implement data reflection in drupal - each table gets its data model, defined in a callback function. And: all tables will be created only out of these data models.

Sounds interesting? The patch - in a very rough, early stage - is here.

First Drupal podcast in German

Frando — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:57:09 -0700

I just spoke in the first German Drupal podcast ever! Yay!
Konstantin Käfer (kkaefer) had the idea, and we also had Hagen Graf (who wrote a German Drupal book) and Gerhard Killesreiter (Drupal core commiter) on board.

We spoke about Drupal in general, about why we chose Drupal, about its community, and also gave some pracital tips for newcomers, e.g. where to get help (forum, IRC, the Drupal Dojo, …).

It was quite chaotic, we had some technical struggles, but hey, it was the first time, and it was good fun!

The final (and cutted) podcast is published on drupalcenter.de.

Improve categorization of drupal modules

Frando — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:01:32 -0700

Update: I published a slightly improved version of this on http://groups.drupal.org/node/3447 . Please comment on it there instead of here.

It is a known fact that the drupal modules page (http://drupal.org/project/Modules) is not perfect. There’s a lot of discussion going on about how to gather module quality metrics, wether to enable a voting module or not, etc.