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Hi everyone. My company, engineroompublishing.com, sells steel drum sheet music and other resources for steel bands. We wanted something modular and robust, and without a huge learning curve. Our site uses the 1pixelout player to play music samples. We also use the ubercart module to handle all of our ordering online, with paypal as our vendor. Soon we're going to set it up to allow video streaming subscriptions for instructional videos. Anyway, we're very glad we chose drupal.

Pretty much finished my Drupal site (here - Swindon Hotels)

It integrates with laterooms via an XML feed for booking hotels in my local town of Swindon.

All kinds of constructive criticism are welcome.

Is Drupal quite memory intensive by any chance? It seems that my VPS keeps falling over for some reason! Might have to cache the heck out of it...

Cheers,
Paul

Hi Drupalers,

I first started a blog hosted using BlogEngine.Net (competitor of WordPress, nice written code and light weight). At the beginning I only do blogging, after a while I decided to show charts about stock trends and I was barely able to modify the .Net source code to add that feature. i.e. enter a stock ticker and a chart shows in the center area. Under the cover was an asp page calling Google Chart API and return the image in real time. Everything works fine so far but the BlogEngine seems reached its extensibility bottleneck. e.g. SEO, content management, category...etc.

During that time, I was seeking for a decent CMS to replace the existing BlogEngine and finally I nailed down to MojoPortal and Drupal (I was unable to install Joomla). I read some articles comparing Joomla and Drupal (I don't want to missed out Joomla) and found that Joomla has a better front end but infrastructure wise missing lots of features offered by Druapl. IMHO, it is much easier to create a better front end then to modify the infrastructure part, this is always true.

I already finished this project a couple months ago. I forgot to post it here, but I guess it's never too late.

You can visit this architecture's office webiste at www.nunogracamoura.com

I got really tired of perusing Drupal theme and module records on-line and using the Drupal.org's search utility which, frankly, could use some improvement. Searching for and perusing theme and module summaries is always faster locally, no matter what kind of internet connection you have.

"GetDrupalRecords" (available at http://www.strassner.com/drupalpgming), will allow you to download all themes and/or module summaries to a single local file, or multiple local files, on your local hard drive. You can also choose to eliminate the releases tables, or leave them active. All on-line links are preserved and CSS file is written out for readability.

The software is available as a Win32 executable, and there is a Python source version for use under OSX or Linux.

I originally wrote this as practice for PYTHON programming, but translated it into C++ under Borland C++Builder and created a front-end for it for the Win32 edition.

Download link is available at http://www.strassner.com/drupalpgming

Program is well tested, but still a beta version 1.0b for awhile.

See the readme file for more information

GetDrupalRecords is FREE TO USE, but donations are gratefully accepted, via PayPal, to videoman@flashback.tv

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.strassner.com/sites/default/files/GetDrupalRecords_1.0b.zip

Enjoy!
Norm Strassner
norm@strassner.com