This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.

One of Drupal 6's nice new features allows you to install Drupal using a language other than English. This video will show you how to get a translation, extract it and run the installer with the new language. We will cover the extraction process using three methods (GUI unzip utility, command line and CPanel) because it is important to make sure it extracts properly for the installer to see it. The video assumes you are already familiar with the basic installation process and only covers the translation part. Important Note for the geekier people out there - DO NOT USE CVS. A CVS checkout of a translation will not work because the correct structure for the files is created during the tarball packaging process. I learned this the hard way. :-) - There are other videos that show more of the multi-language features of Drupal 6. The packaging of installation translations has changed a bit since the end of January 2008 so I wanted to cover the new process for just this part.

This video walks through creating a new release on drupal.org for a contributed module. I needed to do this for my Nice Menus module so I went ahead and captured what I did. It starts by applying a patch from the queue, committing the changes to CVS, tagging the release and then finishing up by creating the release node on d.o. There is a slide with handbook references for the things that are covered but I'll list them here as well. Patching: http://drupal.org/patch/apply CVS command line: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart Handling release nodes: http://drupal.org/node/94151

Moving field changes from development to live doesn't have to be a stressful, error prone, and tedious process. Leveraging the macro module to test and package your field changes can make pushing changes painless. This video accompanies an article on the same topic: Moving CCK Field Changes from Dev to Live

Here is the local web server video for Windows that I promised a few months ago. Local web servers let you work on development and testing right on your own computer. This means you don't have to deal with FTP and/or SSH and can work offline, anywhere, anytime. This video shows you how to install a web server on Windows XP using WAMP. WAMP is a bundle of all the tools you will need in one package: Apache, MySQL and PHP.