Videos of the sessions from Drupal Camp London have started to appear on YouTube including some vox-pops style interviews from attendees. In this short interview [YouTube], MySQL co founder David Axmark gives a warning to the Drupal community. David makes a couple of observations about Drupal, drawing parallels between it and MySQL.
Provide a status field for taxonomy terms analogous to the status field on nodes. Unpublished terms may only be viewed by users with a special privilege. Taxonomy Term Status also exposes the term status field to Views and Entity API.
The Field API in Drupal core lacks the ability for other modules to easily alter field formatter settings forms and the formatter summaries. This module is a small API provider for other modules since it's too late to get the hooks into core
This module exposes a formatter that prints one image from a multi-value image field. It will allow the same options as the original image formatter plus the possibility of choosing which image to print. Selection must be made using a positive integer where 1 will print delta 0. If the selected image image number doesn't exist, a random one will be chosen.
Retina Images adds an option to all image effects included with core to allow them to output high resolution images for high DPI or retina displays. When enabled as part of an image style, this module returns high resolution images for all devices, as is recommended and explained in Thomas Fuchs' excellent blog post and examples on this subject.
Dropbucket.org is created by Tim Kamanin (TimOnWeb Drupal developer). I created this project because of the need to have one place totally dedicated to Drupal snippets. The place where you can store your snippets, share them with others and discover new cool drupal snippets. It's all about snippets and Drupal :)
In all the testing I have done, home page carousels are completely ineffective.For one, anything beyond the initial view has a huge decrease in visitor interaction. And two, the chances that the information being displayed in the carousel matches what the visitor is looking for is slim. So in that case the carousel becomes a very large banner that gets ignored. In test after test the first thing the visitor does when coming to a page with a large carousel is scroll right past it and start looking for triggers that will move them forward with their task.
Node Convert adds a menu tab "Convert" on the node view page, i.e. node/1/convert, which gives the ability of converting the node from its current node type to another node type. Also it gives the ability of transfering all the custom CCK field values of the current node type to the destination CCK fields, or discard them. As of 5.x-1.4 you can bulk convert many nodes of the same type, to another one that can be accesed in Administer → Content → Convert Nodes.
Seven theme is a special case that has to cover a lot of ground: It has to be completely accessible Mobile friendly Provide consistency across 20.000 modules Stand the test of time – as it is often the main way people interact with Drupal and one of the main ways people come to understand the Drupal brand. This is a proposal, so we hope to receive loads of feedback.
The Discover LA site used fieldable panel panes—a new feature of Drupal 7. The panes give content managers the flexibility to build modular pages, with predefined and styled content blocks that can be used interchangeably on the blank canvas of a panelized page.
