Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and digital playground.

As of this morning, Ubercart has a beta release for use with Drupal 6, and it's ready to have the snot kicked out of it by some hard-hitting testers. Most of the changes from Ubercart 1 are internal, so experiencing Drupal 6 will probably be the biggest difference. We have also trimmed down our dependencies so that Token is the only core requirement to use Ubercart. Image support still requires the Content module from CCK along with ImageAPI, ImageAPI GD2, Image Cache, Filefield, and Imagefield.

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This may be a trivial case where user 1 (uid 1) can actually be deleted. This is the first user that you create on a fresh installation of Drupal and allows for full administration rights like a root user. But when you think about it, it is critical that this user should be prevented from being able to be deleted, otherwise you are completely locked out from doing any full administration on your site and to try and get this user back is a real pain in the ass. Just as bad is the fact you can also delete anonymous user (uid 0).  read more »

Modern Lovers is a site i built for a friend (Craig) who runs a club night (Modern Lovers) in Edinburgh. He supplied me with the design and i shaped and molded it into a Drupal 6 theme. Many contrib modules were installed to provide more functionality.  read more »

Being that Views is both a very popular module and included in Acquia Drupal, we get a lot of questions regarding how to configure and customize views in various ways. One thing that has come up a few times is a customer wanting to add custom searching or filters to their views.

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CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger and code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation.

Many of the things you see in the latest code would not have been possible without all the new Drupal 6 and Views 2 features. Drupal 6, CCK 2 and Views 2 make a great combination!

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Now there is no excuse not to upgrade modules to Drupal 6.

After the initial official release of Views 2 nearly two weeks ago, we felt the need to give an official rundown of how we have incorporated some of its features into our production sites. There really are too many new features to discuss in one blog post, but I will try to cover a few new features for site administrators, developers, and themers.

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Each time you start a new website, one always has to go through a really mundane and tedious process of installing a clean version and then adding many modules before you get to the fun part and the is the build of the site. Having used Drupal for quite some time now. It's easy to figure out which modules will be used most (if not all) the time.  read more »

There has been a buzz about Cooliris (formerly Piclens) for quite some time now and i'm surprised i haven't yet tried it out until now. Wow, i must say it really does live up to its expectations, the photo browsing application really does add a whole new dimension to viewing a gallery of photos.  read more »

Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

• Download Drupal 6.5
• Download Drupal 5.11

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

As Drupal is fast becoming popular among web businesses and end-users looking for a better alternative open source content management system, many expert users or company specialising in Drupal now see a good opportunity in this market and have released training videos to help this growing audience.  read more »