We had a really fantastic session at the Drupal on test driven development. I took the notes for the session, which moves Drupal towards TDD and continious integration.

The pdf file of the mind map is here (and here is the source).

Please post up any changes you have and I’ll update the files.

Hey all, after our talk in Barcelona (video soon) on Autopilot there is a lot of interest. The version we demo’d will be released approximately a week after the conference, as soon as we can attach the new ui we developed in barcelona with the updated codebase.

Please DO NOT download and play with the current version. Without installation instructions, and many of the feature updates we have provided in this new release (we’re calling it beta, since the last was alpha), I think it wouldn’t be a great deal of use.  read more »

I wrote a very long email for a client bid recently, and it got me thinking a great deal about how agile software and Drupal work together. I know this is a technology tirade, which I'm against, but I was doing a lot of deep thinking on the subject and this client got the (assumedly) benefit. It's actually somewhat undiscussed, but Drupal's object-based (module-based, whatever) approach maps directly into Agile software development quite nicely.

So I wrote down a few thoughts for managers of projects that might provide some ideas about what corporate managers face, and what kinds of concerns members of the corporate Drupal community are facing on a day-to-day basis. It's somewhat interesting to me, and as usual, I'm very interested in your feedback.

Best,

Jonathan Lambert  read more »

I’m sitting in the Internationalization talk (Multilingual Drupal (201 - sd)) first session here in Barcelona, Spain.

We just finished the introduction to the show, during which time it was revealed that as of this writing there are more than 425 people here at the conference, and that this was the first Drupal-specific conference that was not built around another conference. This is quite a number, and it will only grow throughout the week.  read more »

I’ve put in my first session for Bay Area Drupal Camp. After our discussions in Los Angeles, I feel like the topic could benefit from some more conversation, and possibly drill down into examples and scenarios of how build and change works now, and more specifically, what we can all do to make it easier in the future.

If you’re interested and will be in the area November 4th and 5th, drop by the BADcamp sessions page and sign up to sound off!

During our forays into drupal development, we needed to redirect our node submission after it had been saved to a custom page depending on where the user came from.

To determine where they came from, we went with the simple case of passing a parameter in $_REQUEST if we wanted the special logic.

Then, based on a suggestion on drupal.org, we added a field in hook_form:

if ($REQUEST['special'] == 'true') { $form['destination'] = array('#type' => 'hidden', '#defaultvalue' => 'path/to/redirect/to'); }  read more »

It's going to be an insanely busy month for us this month, and I wanted to let everyone know where we'll be in the hopes that you'll be there too.

WorkHabit will be attended / sponsoring / presenting at three conferences this month, and have two major beta project releases happening in the next 20 days - it's going to be busy.  read more »