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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.

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.

I feel confident declaring that everyone reading this post has at least seen an instant messaging client. From the early days of talking between terminals in command-line operating systems to the explosion of IM communication on services like AOL Instant Messenger, computer users have discovered and embraced the convenience and power of this electronic communication powerhouse.