I was assigned a task to add more reports to casetracker module. This module is powerful. Anyway, it is not mature yet. There are only a few default reports. They are not enough at least for me and my colleage. In particular, the default reports just offer me to view list of all projects, my projects, all cases, my cases and advanced search. Well, what we want is all open cases, all resolved cases and a block to show my open cases.

Today, I was assigned a task to setup a new website as fast as possible. I’m not a web designer. I just know the contents. Fortunately, I have a Drupal already installed as intranet site. Anyway, it is just an intranet site so it is located in subdirectory of the main web, says http://www.sample.com/intranet. And then I would like to have http://www.sample.com/conf2006. I cannot use the same database of intranet because the intranet is completely private site. I don’t want anyone to read my secret contents. So I decided to use multisite feature officially provided by Drupal. As a result, I have 3 sites as follows.

As you might notice, howforge.com has just been upgraded to Drupal 4.7.0. This is a big move because I had no time to upgrade since Drupal 4.7.0 beta 6. Anyway, I did it so smooth like before. In addition, I also reorganized all third-party modules to store in specific sites only. Since my development machine is running inside VMware player, I modified a few configurations to make it compatible with this hosting machine.

The wait is going to over very soon since Drupal 4.7.0 RC4 has been released yesterday. There were several critical issues reported in Drupal 4.7.0 RC3. Thanks all contributors, all of them were fixed quickly. I will definitely try it out in this weekend. In addition, the code was freeze and no new features will be added to 4.7 anymore. In other words, Drupal 4.8.0 development is going to start immediately after 4.7 will be released soon.

Just another screencast to show how easy to install Drupal 4.7 on Windows using Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. From the screencast, it took about 3 minutes to install from scratch including download the package. Most of this installation time was spent for configuring database user. So, it would be easier on Linux if he just uses mysql_setpermission to create database and grants privilege to the demo user.

Drupal 4.7.0 RC3 is here. The final release would be released within this month or early next month. Get it to try and find bugs as many as possible. Drupal is the most active community project. There are lots of contributors around the world. Everyone are all volunteers.

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