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Károly Négyesi: Buy a dream for cheapToday

It's been years since we are dreaming of getting CCK into core. Dries has announced a code sprint, where six people are going to work on this for an entire week. That's 240 (wo)manhours and all we ask is a $7000 donation. This is your only chance to hire the top Drupal coders for less than a $30 hourly fee. If you have ever used CCK please consider donating the equivalence of one hour payment of your time -- it surely saved that many but likely even more.

Tim Millwood: The perfect Drupal development environmentToday

Since becoming a "professional" Drupal developer earlier this year one of the hardest things I have found within my team is best practices for Drupal development. When maintaining my blog or web startup all best practices go out the window. The approach taken is to SSH into the server, get all of drupal core and contrib using wget, do all main module and theme development on localhost then FTP them to the server. All other development is done using the Drupal UI on the live site, and via SSH using vi. This is not the way it can be done in an international organisation.

Over the last few months we have not launched any sites, but have been working on a large project. This project is currently hosted on an external development environment which we use in very much the same way as I manage my own sites. Now we are looking at more development, and launches onto a live site every few weeks we needed to start planning development a bit better. So... we called on Acquia and they sent Robert Douglass. We spent two days with Robert discussing our needs, thoughts and ideas, he then fed back with his experience.

Here's what we are planning to do...

Dries Buytaert: Manual spam servicesToday

We've all heard stories about people who are paid to solve CAPTCHAs. Well, through my Mollom work, I recently learned about PixProfit. Using that site, you can earn $1 for every 1,000 image CAPTCHAs that you solve on behalf of spammers. Indeed, according to the site, "You are limited by your typing speed only - you can proceed up to ten pictures per minute. So, your payment can grow up to $3 per hour.". Crazy!

Now look at a comment spam service like Buy Blog Comments that sells 40 blog comments for $9.99, and you'll realize how sick this is and what returns these spammers are looking at. Double crazy!

This is a good example of why a hosted CAPTCHA service, like Mollom, is a better solution than using CAPTCHAs that are generated locally on your website. At Mollom, we examine trends occurring over many websites and we know when certain IPs are solving too many CAPTCHAs. Further, we also use text analysis to determine when CAPTCHAs are needed, making our solution particularly robust.

Devlounge: Save Time With These Downloadable Drupal Client GuidesToday

So you just finished that Drupal-powered site for your client. The problem is they don’t know how to use it. Avoid explaining the same simple tasks repeatedly with these simple, printable client guides.

The first guide will walk your client through the process of logging in. The second guide is a gentle introduction to managing content with Drupal.

We’ve made a few a few assumptions in order to keep these as simple as possible for even the most computer-illiterate user.

Clean URLs is enabled
User has the ability to add, edit, and delete a Story
Defaults have been set for the Story content type
The administration menu is enabled and visible

If you have created custom content types, or would prefer your client to use the Page content type, simply edit the Word document provided to suit your needs. If you have a basic site then you can probably just use the PDF versions.

Pivots recommendations: Pivots module recommendation system Google Analysis resultsYesterday

We developed 4 module recommendation algorithms and tested them on Drupal.org. And we used Google Analytics and tracked the click-through rates. The overall click-through rate was 0.263%, co-occurrences 0.097%, relevance 0.141%, recency 0.114% and uniqueness 0.138%. The relevancy algorithm appeared to have the highest click-through rate, but it was only significantly higher than the co-occurrences algorithm.