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Availability calendar that can be used for a simple booking or reservation system.

Hat tip to Drupal 6 Site Blueprints.

The Total Control Admin Dashboard creates a default panel page with useful administration panes right out of the box. Several overview panes are included for site stats and quick reference. Several View panes are provided with 'more' links to full-page comprehensive versions of the views. Each View panel pane is customizable via pane settings, or override the default views provided to suit your own needs.

research on how best to go about creating our taxonomies

GraphMind is a mindmap editor for Drupal. It has the basic mindmap features and some Drupal specific enhancement.
Features

* Flex mindmap editor
* Full node crud (create, read, update, delete)
* Load Drupal data (nodes, users, files)
* Load Drupal Views lists (custom arguments)
* Attribute handling (full crud for attributes - Drupal data are attributes also)
* Add external Drupal sites (to make accessible data from all the sites)
* Export to FreeMind (full FreeMind XML format compatible)

One man's upgrade of a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6.

Putting some configuration in code: creating subqueues for nodequeues in code.

rather than forcing our client to create a new nodequeue for each competition (which are nodes themselves) we'd have a single queue with subqueues for each competition. This approach, using subqueues, has several advantages, among which is that it makes it stupidly easy to build a single view that takes a competition node id as an argument for which subqueue to show.

After successfully deploying Varnish2 on our solr cluster I decided to give it a try on the web nodes and use it to strip the analytics cookies off. The results have been impressive.

The above is the CPU usage on www3.drupal.org. As you can plainly see, the difference between Squid/No Caching and Varnish/Anonymous Caching was significant. While we are still resolving some issues after the switch, it has been a large success on the whole and has lowered the load on our web nodes across the board.