2. Good Old Case

3. What’s this?
Will present some of the modules and part
of the workflow for two sites that we at
Good Old has built

4. Esloved.se

5. Malmotown.com

6. Modules:
Shared

7. Standard modules
✦ CCK
✦ Imagefield, Link, Node Reference
✦ Imagecache
✦ Views
✦ Pathauto

8. Views
✦ You can build anything with it
✦ Can take a loooong time to learn well
✦ But it’s a rewarding experience
✦ It’s amazing!

9. Assisting modules
✦ Cobalt
✦ Coder
✦ Devel

10. Cobalt
✦ Easy navigation tool for Drupal
✦ Mirrors on a Drupal level the
functionality eg. Quicksilver.
delivers on a OS level
✦ Navigates menu, nodes, users
and taxonomy
✦ Made for geeky users

11. Special modules
✦ Radioactivity
✦ Plus1 (enhanced)

12. Radioactivity
✦ Makes a value decrease over time
✦ Ships with support for the VotingAPI,
nodes and Views
✦ Can be used to calculate a Digg-style
”hotness” score on nodes based on
votes and other paramaters
✦ Used to create lists of most hot nodes

13. Plus1
✦ A simple Digg-style
voting module
✦ Based on the VotingAPI
✦ Completely rethemed
and modded on our sites
✦ New releases has patches
from our sites

14. Modules:
Esloved.se

15. Third party
✦ Multiping (enhanced)
✦ Pingback
✦ LoginToBoggan
✦ Mollom

16. Own modules
✦ ”Close block”
✦ Node form columns
✦ Esloved’s own module

17. ”Close block”
✦ Enables an end user to permanently hide a block
✦ Works for anonymous users

18. Node form columns
✦ Makes the node
creation forms more
user friendly
✦ Separates form items
into two columns
✦ Disconnects the view
order from the form
order

19. Modules:
Malmotown.com

20. Third party
✦ Date
✦ Flickr
✦ Flag
✦ Menu Trails
✦ Meta Tags

21. Flags
✦ Used to enable users to
flag and unflag content
as spam
✦ Uses action to react to
flaggings
✦ May eg. mail admin
after five users has
flagged a comment

22. Own modules
✦ Datapoint & Yahoo Weather
✦ Flickr Context Tags
✦ Custom Path Themes
✦ Simple Geo
✦ File Archive
✦ Malmotown’s own module

23. Yahoo Weather
✦ DataPoint parser collecting
data from Yahoo
✦ Creates DataPoints with
the weather information
✦ Implements View and
creates the weather block
with View fields, filters
and sort

24. Flickr Context Tags
✦ Connects content with
Flickr images
✦ Uses Flickr’s machine
tags
✦ Extends the Flickr
module

25. Simple Geo
✦ Possible to save a geo
position and area for
nodes and users
✦ Can embed geo position
as a microformat
✦ Has a map widget that
shows all positions on a
page

26. Workflow:
A Git approach to

27. Technical
Get a Mac - even though it’s workable on the
Redmond stuff - why torture yourself?
All *nix-platforms are okay - but it’s most
beautiful to work with git on a Mac, thanks
to GitX.

28. Simple setup
Get git through eg. MacPorts or download it
git init
git add .
git commit
You’re done!

29. Our setup
Unfuddle GitHub Live
Local
Development

30. The result
Snapshot from GitX showing our public Drupal package on GitHub:
http://github.com/hugowetterberg/goodold_drupal/

31. Summary, our
✦ Everything is Mac
✦ Git goes through MacPorts
✦ GitX is a great visualizer
✦ Terminal does stuff
✦ Scripts automates stuff

32. ✦
Thanks!
Pelle Wessman
✦ pelle@goodold.se
✦ phone: 0705-15 88 21
✦ @voxpelli on GitHub, Twitter etc
✦ www.goodold.se