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M.C. Dean, Inc. is looking to contract a user interface/experience engineer for a corporate web redesign project, with the potential to add further projects within a greater corporate web development program.

We're ideally looking to develop a long-term relationship, involving continuing work to potentially include thin client web applications.

I've submitted my session Proposal for Drupalcon Paris 2009. After some consternation about the title, I went with 'Replacing your Internal Apps with Drupal'. I think that's where this hits home--we're replacing an entire backoffice of work-process and communications tools with Drupal, and we think it's great.

I'm the current owner of a pair of Drupal modules which help integrate the Drupal content management framework with the Moodle learning management system. Drupal and Moodle are among the best open-source packages in their respective spaces, and are likewise both very popular.

This release fixes a bug; when creating a new content type, the system would try and retrieve the content type’s columns, even though the content type did not yet exist, and fail because of this. One new feature to this module is the hook_draft() implementation. With the new hook, JavaScript information in forms, such as Ajax-built fields in a content creation page, can now be saved and recalled in a draft.

Bug fixes:
- #435532 Fixed bug when the user creates a new content type the system would not check
if the returned fields were indeed valid since on initial creation nothing would

I released Context Help beta 1 on Drupal.org for around a week to see what issues would appear. At the same time, the module went through our internal quality control to prepare it for inclusion in our release trunk.

We needed to display help content on different pages of a Drupal instance, and available solutions did not meet our needs for content management and node association. From this need, Context Help module was born. We originally had a Drupal 4.7 version, but it was not very scalable and became annoying to the users who did not like the “tooltip pop-up” format we had used.

After a lot of time working on another program, I’ve finally been able to devote some energy to the Draft Module that I created and currently maintain on the Drupal Web framework.

The main feature requested for Draft module was a PHP page view instead of forcing the use of Views module. While on my hiatus from Drupal, I brainstormed how to make the PHP version of the page as functional and easy to use as the Views version of the module, as well as allowing the administrator to alter columns.

My food poisoning at DCDC (don't eat rare meat in DC!) abated just long enough for me to attend an excellent BoF towards the end of Friday at Drupalcon DC 2009. The goal was workable configuration management in Drupal, and in no particular order, attending were:

XMPPFramework version 1 was a cluster of modules designed to provide XMPP functionality to the Drupal platform. The module cluster was originally designed as just one module: XMPPClient. This module was designed to provide a Thin Web Client tightly associated with Drupal so that users could launch it from their Drupal instance without having to enter their password or install any third-party applications onto their machine/device.