A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.
Great Posts This Week
Is your website smarter than a 12-year old? - How to use the Readability module to keep your posts understandable.
3.4 Million page views per day, 92 million per month, one server and Drupal - A presentation given at DrupalCamp Toronto on how to optimize the hell out of Drupal.
Interesting New Modules
View Google Gadget Plugin - Create Google Gadgets (for iGoogle) using Views. I need to find a project to try this out with. It sounds awesome.
Menu Minipanels - This looks interesting. We have an upcoming project where the client needs a menu that's more than what Drupal normally can handle. (formatted text, images, etc) We will give this a try.
Workflow Extensions - This looks great. Change the Workflow UI into multiple easy to understand buttons rather than radio buttons and a generic Save button.
Imagecache Proportions - CCK formatter that allows the user to pick between a few different Imagecache presets depending on the orientation of their image.
jQuery Mobile - Mobile theming with the new jQuery Mobile plugin.
Tutorials
Create Smarter Content with Alchemy for Drupal - How to do automated keyword analysis with the Alchemy module. I installed this module on our site immediately after watching this great demo.
Creating a Custom Plugin in Context - As a new user of the Context module, I appreciated this one.