Drupalcon Boston 2008, day 2: random thoughts

Disclaimer: I'm writing this post after the Acquia party, so my billiard game cockup frustrations (and maybe those beers too) probably prevent me writing something coherent.

Anyway, this afternoon (of day two of Drupalcon 2008) I was attracted as module maintainer/developer to the Making your contrib modules admin-friendly session. Unfortunately, the session did meet my expectations, probably because half of the presentation didn't happen (one of the presenters didn't make it). For example, I already was aware of the tip "do already some needed stuff during installation (in the .install file)" (like creating settings or even setting sensible defaults). Something that I found a good suggestion though, was: "after module installation, as the very least give a success message with pointers on what the admin could do next, like module configuration, content creation, etc.".

The next session of the same track was Triggers and actions and hooks, oh my! by John VanDyk. It was an interesting introduction to this new Drupal 6 core functionality, but the talk went sometimes a bit too fast to let all the details come through. I won't go into much detail about it because it's probably already better covered elsewhere and I should go to sleep now. Two interesting points at the end of his presentation were however that the actions/triggers modules are being backported to Drupal 5, which should be released soon, and that a second release of the very interesting Pro Drupal Developent is taken care of and probably will make it in late spring/early summer.

that's all folks