Portland Maine - For the last month or so we have been busy working with our client Bartlett Interactive to usher in some feature enhancements to a Drupal 7 based system for the Presencing Institute. The work consisted of examining their current architecture and finding the best way to build the new enhancements.

Portland ME - One feature Drupal has always been missing is a robust media management system. For all the reasons I dislike Wordpress, in my opinion has the best media management. Drag and drop file uploads and an intuitive editing browser that includes caption editing, image size manipulation and rotation make it my favorite. However my Drupal family is making progress.

Portland ME - Testing is very difficult. Its a pain in the butt but it's one of those neccessary evils. The more websites we build and the increasing number of web application we work on has pushed up to grow in our testing techniques. In the past testing was a final phase of a project where staff members would all hammer on the application with less than well written user stories. To be honest, the fatique of the project along with the fact that the user stories were written only weeks early proved to be an unreliable way to test applications.

Portland ME - I needed to change the way the Jump Menu style plugin worked in Views on a recent project. The client wanted certain items in the jump menu to link to external websites. To accomplish this, I added a field to my content type that would store the external URL and then I had to extend the Views Plugin Style for the Jump Menu.

In order to extend the plugin style you will need a custom module. We will refer to the module as 'my_module'. Here are the files that will make up the module and there purpose.

my_module.info