Austin Smith (now with the Economist) takes us on a tour of some of the modules used on the New York Observer newspaper site. He talks specifically about some of the configurations of Views & CCK that make up their editorial workflow, workarounds and updates on the Observer case study that was written up for their initial Drupal 5 launch.

Modules mentioned

• primary term module
• token
• pathauto
• memcache
• views
• cck & userreference
• twistage CDN integration
• imagefield + a custom theming template preprocess hook for displaying with a jQuery carousel
• apachesolr and how the project module uses it
• mollom
• comment_login

For more information:
New York Observer Site Dissection at Do It With Drupal (registration required)

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