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Drupal Podcast No. 40: Top 40 Projects

  • Artist: Lullabot
  • Title: Drupal Podcast No. 40: Top 40 Projects
  • Album: Drupal Podcast
  • Track: 40
  • Year: 200
  • Length: 79:24 minutes (18.84 MB)
  • Format: Mono 22kHz 33Kbps (VBR)

Angie Byron, Robert Douglass, Jeff Eaton, and Jeff Robbins celebrate the 40th podcast with cake, champagne, and a countdown of the top 40 Drupal Projects. Here's the list (Many thanks to Greg Knaddison for the linkifying!):

  1. Drupal Core
  2. CVS Integration / Project / Project Issue Tracking
  3. Views
  4. CCK
  5. Pathauto
  6. Devel
  7. ImageCache
  8. TinyMCE
  9. API
  10. Organic Groups
  11. Panels
  12. Actions
  13. VotingAPI
  14. i18n
  15. Ecommerce
  16. Audio
  17. Calendar
  18. Date
  19. Codefilter
  20. Video
  21. Image Field
  22. Open ID
  23. Content Templates
  24. Event Module
  25. Node Profile
  26. Five Star
  27. Token
  28. Zen/Zengine
  29. Akismet
  30. Automatic Node Titles
  31. Workflow
  32. Diff
  33. Custom Links/Custom Pagers/Custom Breadcrumbs
  34. Amazon Associate Tools
  35. Simplenews
  36. Porter Stemmer
  37. Case Tracker
  38. Revision Moderation
  39. Location
  40. XML SiteMap

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Comments

Wow, the past three episodes

Wow, the past three episodes have been extra awesome . Keep up the great work everyone. We all really appreciate this podcast, with so much Drupal stuff to sift through, hearing you all talk about it makes a lot of stuff click!

Thanks!

Thanks for the links and congrats to the Bots (you've grown up)!!

Let's get this one on Digg

FrOSCon links

Here are links for the FrOSCon conference in Germany that I mentioned.

The groups.drupal.org group:
http://groups.drupal.org/froscon-germany-2007

Details about the conference:
http://froscon.de/?L=1

Call for papers/speakers:
http://cfp.froscon.org/

Corporate sponsors:
http://froscon.de/Sponsoren.8.0.html?L=1

Content Templates and CCK?

Hi,
Does Content Templates need to use CCK or so they work alone? I read the project page and saw the mention for CCK. It says:

"This module was written to solve a need with the Content Construction Kit (CCK), where it had a tendency toward outputting content in a not-very-pretty way. And as such, it dovetails nicely with CCK, adding a "template" tab to CCK content-type editing pages and pre-populating the templates with CCK's default layout."

Just curious,
Thanks

Great

Brilliant list mate!

A dynamic list of top drupal modules -- Unspun

Just as a more chaotic crowd-created alternative, here's what unspun has for a list of top drupal modules:

1.Content Construction Kit (CCK) (1826)
2.Phptemplate Theme Engine (1304)
3.Feedback (1000)
4.Tinymce Wysiwyg Editor (870)
5.Control Panel (783)
6.Image Module (652)
7.Views (652)
8.Simplenews (652)
9.Ajax Form Builder (522)
10. Printer Friendly Pages (478)

Here's a link to the post with the dynamic list

Nice! How did you embedded

Nice!
How did you embedded "unspun" results to your page?

We <3 Drupal

Nice list. I incorporate many of these modules on my web site.

Nice list

Hello
I really enjoyed the list! As I'm fairly new to Drupal it's hard to know which modules exists and what I can do with them. Now I know at least what to search for when I encounter a problem.
Great Podcast!

This is great

I am just finishing my first project in Drupal and I really really appriciate this kind of sites. Thank you!

audio filtering

i'm just starting with drupal and i have to say thank you for creating such useful resources.

is there any way you could better produce the audio on your podcast -- maybe run it through some sort of filter to remove the piercing hisses from it? i'm listening with headphones and, for example, when robert douglass is talking about the xml sitemap module, his S's are excruciating.

thanks and keep up the good work!!

That's probably microphone

That's probably microphone placement. Thanks for pointing it out.

Event Deprecated?

Hi, Event.module is (semi-) deprecated in favor of, what exactly? Jeff said, "more complex cck-based approaches" but are these demonstrated in detail anywhere?

CCK + Date field and

CCK + Date field and Calendar module (you should also check out the timeline module!)

Does this combo support

Does this combo support repeating events?

Cool episode...

And the 40th gift should be a ruby. I don't have any to mail you, but I'd be happy to throw you a party here in Louisville, KY just to get some more Drupallers in the area.

Hopefully we can get you to test Ubercart before you get to the top 50 list. ;)

Forgot to mention

(Thanks for the nod, by the way... you know you're doing something right if Lullabot's "saying hi" from their podcast.)

Best Podcast yet

Well done guys! I have listed to every podcast since the first one and this is the best yet. Really useful for us guys down in the trenches building web pages.

Finally

Thank you SO MUCH!!! Ive prayed! for such an overview :D

invalid format of mp3 files

the last several podcasts have not been playable for me using windows media player. i get the error "the input media format is invalid"

anyone else having this problem or is it just my instance of winblows?

i've downloaded the files several times, same story.

I had another report that

I had another report that the variable bitrate setting makes it very difficult to listen to with non-iPod mp3 players. I always listen with iTunes on my Mac, so I never run into any problems, but I suppose we should garner as much feedback from people using other tools as possible.

Format

A quick explanation of the file format:

You can see on the podcast description (above) the formatting for the podcast is "MP3 Mono 22kHz 33Kbps (VBR)". I've chosen this format because it is a good trade off between quality and file size.

MP3 - We all have some idea of what that is by now :-)
Mono - The podcast is spoken word, so there's really not much need for Stereo. Right here, this cuts the file size in half. However a few mp3 players are confused by mono files.
22kHz - CD's are recorded at a sampling rate 44.1kHz. We're not going for hi-fi with our spoken-word podcast, so by cutting this in half, we cut the file size in half again. Again though, some mp3 players aren't as smart as me. :-)
33Kbps - This is the overall bitrate of the download - kilobits per second. And this is really the heart of the matter. By having such a low bitrate, users over modems can essentially pseudo-stream the podcast. And since I know that a lot of our listeners don't have the luxury of broadband - and since many of our podcasts are an hour or more, I try to be sensitive to this. The mono and 22kHz play in here, because they allow better audio quality at a lower bitrate. A few MP3 players get silly about lower bitrates.
VBR - and last, but not least, we use Variable BitRate format mp3's which basically flexes the bitrate to provide better audio quality where it is needed. Again, this allows us better audio quality at a lower average bitrate. But here again, some (older) mp3 players aren't savvy about VBR.

Now it very well could be that something has shifted around in our settings somewhere between iTunes (my encoder) and Audio module (which reads and writes ID3 data from the file). But this issue has come up before, so I figured I'd explain the format once and for all.

What about non mac users?

I don't put a lot of attention into audio files. I use Juice to download podcasts and windows media player to play them.

about 4-6 lullabot podcasts ago, i could no longer listen to them on WMP.

I suppose I'm not the only person out there using WMP who listens to this podcast. I know the Drupal community is hardcare Mac (unless you count freaks like drumm who use this thing they call "Linux").

I don't really care to know why windows can't handle VBR or whatever the problem is. I just accept that a lot of stuff breaks, blows up, or just doesn't work on Windows. But for the most part, podcasts/mp3s work pretty well %99 of the time. The exceptions for me are lullabot podcast and one other podcast i unsubscribed from a while back.

I can come to the website to listen, no problem. But it would be nice to see a podcast format that everyone can listen to without problems.

Plays fine on Windows Media Player 11

It plays fine on my PC using WMP 11 on Windows XP SP2. I can even adjust the playback speed (slow down a bit), so it's easier to understand for a german guy like me. ;-)

Great work! Thanx!

Drupal Core

"The Core is Mother. The Core is Father." (huh?)

Another great show guys. I've just been listening to a lot of your shows catching up. This coolade tastes great. Why couldn't I have found it before?

40 Podcasts in 14 days

I just finished listening to all 40 podcasts (and all of the unnumbered ones as well) in a row! I did take breaks to eat, sleep and work a bit, but for the last 14 days, that's been my main occupation -- Lullabot Podcast Listener Extraordinaire. It was fantastic! I am new to Drupal and 14 days ago I knew nothing. Back then, in the Dark Ages, I thought a node had something to do with my elbow, or Astronomy, or audio or something. I started -- 14 days ago -- listening to podcast 40 and didn't understand anything. So I began from number one and today, after listening to #40 again, I get it. I have been enlightened.

I am starting a new web project and we decided to use Drupal for our site -- thanks to you and these podcasts that clarified everything (well, almost).

Looking forward to 41...

Great list of modules

Hey,
This is a good list of modules, although there are some that are also good, like:

Search 404
Alinks
Node (key)Words/Meta-tags

and so on...

Still a great list you gave here. We'll need to try out a few more of the ones you suggested. Cheers!

great post - have implemented most of it

this is a real treasure for guys like us trying to use drupal for creating rich content based sites.

keep up the good work guys.

kapil pant

www.ebizvitals.com

Events deprecated?

Great podcast. So good to know what the heavy hitters use/recommend.

Someone on this podcast said there are better ways to accomplish what Events does than the events module. However, they never said what those better ways are.

I see that Calendar is higher on the list so I guess I can infer that that is one of the alternatives. However, it is my understanding that Calendar does not support repeating events. That seems like a dealbreaker to me.

So if I need repeating events in my calendar, what's the optimal way to accomplish that? I've posed this question on Drupal.org but I didn't get a definitive answer.

turning drupal into a social network

can you recommend a mod for giving the raw drupal social network functionality?

Some of the modules listed

Some of the modules listed here are absolutely required for a drupal site. The common questions for beginners is what module should I be using for my category of website.

Is there an article which states that. Eg: Blogs use , community site --

Second common question is when there are two modules doing the same thing, which is better. There is a need to have a module rating system on drupal.

Thanks
tk

http://mydrupal.com/drupal-services

category module

Hard to believe the Category module hasn't made this list - I have not done a Drupal site yet without it. Taxonomy on steroids - puts Drupal head and shoulders above any CMS with what is certainly one of the most important aspects of many (most) web sites - taxonomy.

Category module has many improvements over default taxonomy module including tag anything with anything. You have to think about this for a bit to see it - but tag any node with any node... not just a word (taxonomy) - the possibilities are endless.

and then use the usernode module with this and you can now tag content with users and use views to filter - the heart of any decent social networking site.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts

My top ten

CCK
Views
Pathauto
Image
IMCE
Contemplate
TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor
Nodewords
Google Analytics
XML Sitemap

Thanks - really handy

We're starting to look at moving from Joomal to Drupal - and I would have to say that the Joomla resources sites are a bit better - maybe it's early days for me!

Cheers
Mike

Nice Drupal Module Search Site

I recently came across a nice Druplet Site (http://www.druplet.com) that provides the ranking of drupal modules based on the number of views/downloads. It also has the search capability which I found very useful when it came to look for additional modules.

Thanks

thanks at all for creating such useful resources.

Volker
http://www.nicdomain.de

wow, great list ! thank you

wow, great list ! thank you !

Please, we could do without all that laughing...

The subject is very interesting but all the laughing is very anoying. And you could stick to that subject. I came to this page looking for the best Drupal modules and reviews about it but after more than 12 minutes of the podcast I cannot hear anything interesting... Sorry.

thanks

thanks

I know this is abit out of

I know this is abit out of date but some of the modules mentioned are still active but maybe a new post with current drupal 6 modules?

new list

+1 for a Drupal 6 version of this list.

+1 for updated Drupal 6

+1 for updated Drupal 6 list!
(maybe for podcast 70?)

Udi

AWESOME

Love podcasts especially well made and technical :-)

Great for begginers who dont know which modules worth to be used!

Good Work!

Art

Related news: Kaltura Releases Open Source Video Module

I'm excited to update you that today we have officially launched our open source video module for Drupal. Kaltura's All in One Video Module enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionalities to their sites. The module handles all aspects of adding video, including full hosting and streaming of content. It is extremely flexible, easy to customize and best of all – it's free – Kaltura covers up to 10GB of hosting and streaming (can later be upgraded). It was designed specifically for Drupal and seamlessly integrates with several key Drupal features and modules, including CCK, Views, cron, tags and taxonomy, and user permissions.

Download it: http://corp.kaltura.com/download

Check it out on our demo site: http://drupal.kaltura.org/

Play around with it: http://drupal.kaltura.org/demo/

Tell us what you think in our forums: http://community.kaltura.org/

all we need now is the facility to...

design custom user profiles without the need to edit and write code...

Drupal is still the best Open Source CMS out there in my opinion though.

Keep up the great work.

Karl
Training in the Midlands UK

Jeff Eaton, You Rock!

I forgot to thank you for letting me sit beside you at one of the Lullabot training that occured a few years ago. It was your birthday and James and the owner got you a punch of bacon and sang you happy birthday I did not have a chance to thank you for the incredible teacher you are. I love the podcast you did here. Keep them coming. YOu have found your passion teaching Drupal I like that you also help the non technical audience like me understand drupal better. I hope to give you another apple apple for the teacher next time we meet, you are a true inspiration!!!
Rene

Thank man ! Good artichle 8)

Thank man ! Good artichle 8)

Usefull list

thanks for this useful list of drupal mods.

Thanks

The Porter Stemmer Algorithm rocks!

great thanks

First, I would like to thank the author for providing such a good list of Drupal modules.
I am looking forward for more :)