OpenSourcery

The 2nd day is nearing an end here at Drupalcon DC, and it's been amazing, as was expected. So far, there have been several very cool sessions, and even impromptu demos of up and coming modules.

Filefield in Core

While attending the Future of Files and Media in Drupal 7 presentation by Drewish and reviewing the FilesApi Wishlist for D7, I'm going to take part in attempting to get the concept of a Filefield module into core for Drupal 7. This would go a long ways towards simplifying the job contrib module authors have when they want to deal with media (although, even without this, D7 already looks to be drastically better given that hook_file_* patch was committed some time ago). There are of course other critical improvements in that list, so ideally, many people will pick up file handling improvement efforts during the upcoming code sprint.

Context & Spaces

I have to say, after banging my head against various install profiles and update scripts, the ideas presented in A Paradigm for Reusable Drupal Features was a breath of fresh air. The context and spaces modules have come a very long way since Szeged.

Charting and Graphing for Views

I missed this presentation, due to an unfortunate name of the presentation, but I caught up with Irakli and chatted about this exciting new integration of the powerful Views module with the idea of charts and graphs as display types. The key modules (although still in heavy development) will be invaluable for the upcoming Solar4rSchools overhaul:

• Views Group By
• Views Charts
• Charts and Graphs

Finally, I got a very cool preview of an up-and-coming grid builder module by Roger López. The idea is that a user can drag out, and re-arrange regions in a dynamic user-interface. Once they have a nice potential layout for a page, the module will generate the necessary page.tpl.php file, and corresponding .info files to have a theme based on the dynamically created layout. This is very exciting stuff.

That's all I have time for now, although I'll try provide at least a few more updates as the sessions proceed.