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We provide hosting for some of our clients. In setting up our hosting infrastructure, originally, we housed a few PowerEdge servers at a local colocation facility. This has suited us just fine, and the company has been very gracious to us. Having said that, anyone that has ever rented space in one of these facilities knows that it can be somewhat expensive.

I spent quite a bit of time recently looking for a 'Terms & Conditions' support module for Ubercart 2.x (Still in beta). There's a contributed version of this for Ubercart 1.x, but I wasn't having any luck finding updated contributions available for Drupal 6.

And then, out of the blue, I found this comment (UPDATE: This module is now available on the Ubercart T&C project page @ Drupal.org).

Of the myriad complaints and issues (and their corresponding fixes) I've watched crop up over the last few years about SWF transparency and the wmode parameter i never thought for a second that when i would face one of these issues it would defeat me.

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.

Despite 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.

We 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.