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Adding a calendar and scheduling function to a Drupal site

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One site I support recently had a calendar problem.  We were using the Event module from Drupal, although Date has made improvements so that it could be used today.  Events were posted on the calendar that corresponded with the organization's most important external events.  They maintained an internal schedule of all rooms and meetings using a Microsoft Access tool that had been developed by a former employee, and it could not accept a date beyond December 31, 2009.  (Can you say Y2K plus 10?)

Adding voting to a web site

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One of my web sites wanted to run a contest where people could vote on the best design.  After a period of time, then the voting would be closed and the best design would be made into a T-shirt.  Well, Drupal has a number of modules that support voting, so which one to choose?

This particular contest required that people could see thumbnails of the designs, and then vote on the one they liked best.  So I needed to provide a view of the designs, with voting information on each design.

I reviewed three voting modules for this case:

Using Adobe Creative Suite for web sites with Drupal

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First, this is not about how to fully, automatically integrate CS and Drupal.  That would be nice, but I don't think there is a way yet. 
 
Instead, this is about my experience recently as I obtained Adobe Dewsign Premium CS4 and started to learn it.
 
I have been using CS4 for several months now.  I started my graphic editing with GIMP, an open source competitor to Photoshop.  I got an opportunity to acquire CS4, so I decided tos ee if it was all that much better than something like GIMP.
 

Vista is good!

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I have been using Vista for over a year now, and it has been a pleasant experience.  I saw an article in the newspaper (yes, I read a daily newspaper on real newsprint) that said that Vista was less stable than XP.  It is simply not true.  I was just reminded of this a few minutes ago.  I was trying to forward an email using Outlook.  There was a problem viewing the email, so I should have been suspicious of it.  When I tried to forward it, Outlook hung.  When I tried to close the forwarding window, I got a popup window that Outlook had stopped w

Creating a payment processor for a church site

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My church recently asked to have payment processing added to its web sites.  (Yes, we have two sites now: one for the church and a second for the youth group that serves multiple churches in Sonoma County.)  I did some studying of the options and decided to use Ubercart.  CiviCRM would have worked, but it seemed like a lot of overhead when all I wanted was payment processing.  On Drupal, there were two primary choices: e-Commerce and Ubercart.  Ubercart seemed like the more used, more up to date, and the more supported site at the current time. 

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