Idea

Proposed for the 2010 Boston Skillshare, http://www.bostonskillshare.org/2010

workshop title Start and grow an online presence
short name Working the Web

Benjamin Melançon and others from Agaric Design Collective

Learn how to start a free, cheap, or expensive web site; learn how to increase what you can do on the web; learn basic online strategy and resources available.

When posting a link, use case being Add Web Link on data.agaric.com, the site should check if the suggested URL is a duplicate.

This is especially useful for new modules and Drupal Planet posts that we are all likely to notice at the name time.

Kathleen will be adding a check for duplicates to the validate function, but I'm interested in ways to check for duplicate CCK field links before letting the form proceed. Not sure how to catch it really early. AJAX could check continuously for changes in the URL.

File this under to do– get into mindmapping with Freemind:

Enabling CCK Field Permissions (cck_field_perms in Drupal 5, part of CCK itself in Drupal 6) can create bugs on your if you aren't paying attention and cleaning up after it.

Some excerpts from IRC among people trying to figure out why an image on a news post simply wasn't showing up (for the user who posted it in this case, the authenticated role had editing but not viewing rights for the imagefield!).

Said I, petulantly on instant message:

I want to do everything in Drupal. I want to do estimates by having each section a node with estimated hours and such, and then I want it to be able to print it out in one document and have it nicely formatted.

And I got the Drupal is a hammer speech.

Anyway, I still want it, but sadly no one has done it yet.

There are printer markup languages that are relatively straightforward, right? Would be really sweet to make Drupal output in LaTeX or whatever makes sense.

So long as the best way to automate the setup of Drupal modules is in another module, we should claim a namespace for that. For modules not spaces and context, that namespace can be install* or install_*

What I most want this for right now is not for deploying a new site but for doing development work on a site. For instance, it would be fantastic to encode all of this setup in a module:

http://zzolo.org/thoughts/api-module

Posted to the Drupal consultant list:

One thing that frustrates me as a consultant is that for funding easily available to aggregated small-money people using Drupal for web sites, we could more than match the invaluable corporate and foundation contributions– but as yet, the key part - aggregating needs and funds - has not happened.

I'd very much like to see Sam Boyer's Decision-making API funded and built (approved by the community but unfortunately not ultimately by the Knight Foundation).

We are going to write a Drupal book, so we have to plan important stuff, like the title

Titles?
Drupal: The Living Web

Subtitles?
Building web sites for people

How to do Drupal sustainably

by the Agaric Collective
and friends

Special treatment will check where on the internet site visitors are coming from

What we do, is every time we leave a comment somewhere, that includes a link back to Agaric, we get that other sites' page's URI into the Related Content module.

Then when someone visits and we see the match, we say hello and offer up the content related to what they were just looking at! Instant custom landing page for everyone, organically.

Resolution

ERP

billing
legal billing - what is taxed

company pays for profit minus

buy Quickbooks and have it take care of it

keep track of billing accounts -- accounts receivable
even that might as well be in Quickbooks

$200

how much can be [pushed off to Quickbooks]

have modules that are on the drupal

Build a billing system that we as a small company would have the data, responsible for what taxes go in what direction

all those rules are held as data on a server

simply access that data