build2be/com/e something is going on over there

Just build a new theme with zen. It all went smooth. But being more a techy then a designer I only tested with FireFox, Gnome Web Browser (Gecko 1.8), Opera, Safari and forgot IE 6 which I have through ie4linux. Guess what ... it broke with IE 6.

Yes I know ... IE is out there for real so you better test. But it is a drag for sure. The designer uses IE 7 where it looks ok. So maybe in the near future we are saved a drag or two :-)

- IE is out there: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

What are Goal Groups?

I did not know this term. But it makes sense to group your site visitors.

Some pointers:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/3761#comment-18895

http://expressionengine.com/

I don't like the idea that dependencies are not handled in a unified way. By that I mean that both module.inc and update.php code is written to handle module status. There should be a central library handling their dependencies. When we handle this in a unified way installing a big project like ubercart is easy.

When installing/enabling a module it is important to know what this module is dependent of. Ie uc_cart is dependent of uc_order. See ie http://build2be.com/sites/build2be.com/files/ubercart.neato.png

The title of this page should be project management because Drupal uses projects for delivering modules.

A companion video shows the Drupal 5.x situation. Using drush, my drush_mm patch and update status to manage and install modules command line. This video shows better dependency checking than currently available in D7. As I hope is clear I want to contribute to implement this into D7.

When making these images about modules i use graphviz to render them. But just ran into http://drupal.org/project/hypergraph which looks great.

So I have to study this one!

Commands to render a .dot file are ie with non overlapping nodes

neato -Goverlap=false -o my.neato.png -T png my.dot


or for a top down graph.

dot -T png -o my.dot.png my.dot


The attached image is an installation with the jstools, cck, views, drush, og in order to get faster user experiences.

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