Yelvington Living on the Edge

Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Sat, 11/11/2006 - 9:11pm.

Steve Yelvington is living on the edge. Well, at least when it comes to Drupal. He's running 5.0 code at the moment over at his site. Will be interesting to watch. Not a lot of modules for 5.0 yet. And, as I've heard over and over, amazing how fast and well you can throw dynamic sites together now.

Yelvington wrote:

This site is pretty much stock Drupal 5.0, beta 1, with just two contributed modules: tagadelic (which produces the tag cloud) and adminblock (helps me find comments that need to be looked at). I had to modify tagadelic for 5.0. Very few contributed modules have been upgraded at this point.

The new Drupal has an auto-installer, very cool distributed authentication, completely revised administrative controls, and subtle integration of Ajax. There's a color control module that lets you dial up a color scheme for the default template set.

At work we're running 4.7x on most of our installations, typically adding a number of modules, including mysite (personalization, developed at Morris), buddylist, private messaging, etc. The undoubtedly coolest modules are nodequeue and views, which make it point-click easy to create automated or editorially managed list-driven pages, and the Content Construction Kit, which lets you create new structured content types without coding.