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Affinity Bridge's Katherine Bailey and Tom Nightingale gave an awesome introduction to the Search API module at the recent Vancouver Drupal User Group's meeting.

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Recently, I blogged about Drupal's plans to integrate HTML5 into its next release. However, version 8 of Drupal is at least a year away. What's a Drupal dev to do, if they want to start using HTML5 right now? There are a variety of tools and techniques. Let's look at them.

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One of the reasons I'm excited to vote this week is the introduction of Ranked Choice Voting in my hometown of Oakland, California. I like Ranked Choice Voting because it allows voters to express their preferences in a more complete way than if they could only vote for one candidate. And when you can only vote for one candidate, then you might be reasonably worried about the dreaded spoiler effect.

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WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors can be tricky to configure properly, and most clients have to have them, for good reason too, who wants to hand code html?  In this short post I'll explain a few tips and tricks to get your WYSIWYG configuration dialed in.

For starters you will want the following modules installed

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Email gateways to CMSs have lots of great uses. From automating content creation from various sources, to allowing people out in the field to easily post from non-web enabled devices, or to just lowering the bar for getting content onto your site, email can be make content creation that much easier.

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Drupalcon Szeged is one week away. I am glad I am attending, and I am planning on leading a Birds of a Feather (BOF) during the conference. The focus of the BOF is creativity and programming. I want to discuss the weird mix of human behavior and code. Sounds strange I know, so let me describe in more detail.

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For many sites a standard Drupal content type with open permissions and revisions will do enough of the 'wiki-thing' for many situations.

However, there are a bunch of other wiki-like behaviors that you might (on some sites) want to add additional functionality or usability - here is a summary of modules to check out:

• Wikitools (pretty configurable - you don't need to have all of this all the time)
  • Node Creation: Let users create new nodes when they type in a node name which does not exist.
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Required modules: Panels 2 (which includes various sub modules), views, CCK: date, text, noderefence.
Optional: pathauto, path, token

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At the Vancouver DrupalCamp there were, of course, the inevitable questions about what modules people use regularly. Boris suggested at one point that people should add to the growing body of information out there about popular modules. So here is my short list of modules i use on nearly EVERY site:

• CCK, plus various cck field modules like link, imagefield
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