Drupal

Using Varnish and Pressflow (The Pantheon Project) together is an effective way to maximize the potential of your hosting environment, and can yield extraordinary results. The problem is, if you're not intimately familiar with Varnish, or the Linux command-line, getting it into a functional state can be something of a challenge. Out of the box, it is adequate at caching content for anonymous users, but that's where the fun ends.

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).

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.

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.