Ronald Ashri's blog

Drupalistas met in Rome on the 25th and 26th of February 2012 and discussed Drupal Products - this is an summary of what I got from the meeting.

The appeal of building generic, framework solutions is undeniable - but at some point it has to stop. The specific use case needs to be solved. Realizing when to stop is tricky and crossing the line is tempting.

We have been busy working away on Rooms and with code release scheduled for next week we thought this would be a good moment to share some screenshots and some information about the thinking behind the module.

Mapping on Drupal 7 is still in flux but a lot can be achieved already. I really like Openlayers so I wanted to find a solution that revolved around that. It took a bit of fiddling around but in the end I have a working recipe, which I thought I'd share to help others looking for something similar. The specific problem I needed to solve is how to allow users to enter their address information, geocode and place that on a map using Openlayers.

I followed the whole Drupal App store discussion with a lot of interest and just wanted to recount a relevant episode that raises a couple of issues from a perspective that may not have been considered so far: How the lack of professionally marketed Drupal Apps can negatively hurt the uptake of Drupal.