When a client asked us to give their site a facelift, my first thought was to turn to Drupal. It is, after all, a powerful social networking application. And then the bombshell dropped. The client's website was an online store originally built in the mid '90s, and in dire need of some help.
ShareThisDespite its widespread use, Ant is ultimately inadequate as a build system. In some ways, it is well-suited for building simple Java projects: It is integrated with the JVM and extensible in Java, and it has an established library of code for a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, there are core responsibilities of a build system — keeping track of dependencies among files and rebuilding only as necessary — that Ant simply does not perform, delegating instead to every individual task to do what should be core functionality.
ShareThisWe have developed a custom Drupal module for a client that I'm really excited about. We are in the process of contributing it to the Drupal community and I wanted to get the word out.
The module is called Cred, and it allows users to create nodes that are then graded by other users. These grades are compiled into a user's Cred Point Average (or CPA), which is displayed on their profile page. We used Jyte as our inspiration for this module. Our goal was to create a fun way for users to create content, spur discussion, and generate reputation all at the same time.
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