Electricity and internet are all we need, but it never hurts to plan on feeding the code sprinters, also.
Some veteran programmers signed up before calling a sprint helps ensure that all issues can be handled. Ideally, someone with commit access to the project or projects that will be worked on should be present, or at least committed to work remotely.
[not tested, notes jotted down while helping fellow code sprinter test the translation of Forum titles]
Enable locale module
[new] In Drupal 7, the fastest way to add a language is to place the package of po files in the Drupal root directory and then add the language. It finds the po files automatically. (We do not go to import a language as in Drupal 6. Now we only use import for individual po files we add later.)
Microsoft has put a lot of resources into promoting Drupal
http://www.microsoft.com/web/drupal/
Cygwin gives us most of the UNIX-y goodness used in this book:
http://randyfay.com/node/70
If a theme uses only default regions or feature settings, it does not need to define them in its .info file. If even one additional region is used, it must define all regions, the default ones it wants to keep and the new ones. The same holds for features. This is true for subthemes, also: If our parent theme uses only the default regions, and so doesn't define any, and so our copy of its .info file doesn't define any, we'll lose all the default regions the moment we define a region ourselves.
When things are terribly documented, we go to the source. No, we don't bang on the developer's door at three in the morning and demand an explanation. We look at the source code.
We will commonly want some people to have a convenient block of links they are likely to need, and not show this to other people. We can do this in Drupal by giving people who should have common tasks or abilities in common a shared role, making a menu of the links we want to show, and placing the block with this menu into the region of our choice.
The generic goal is a view of content useful to administrators or other privileged users. If it were possible for this goal to be met in a generic fashion, it is more than likely Drupal (or a module) would be providing it for us already, out of the box. Indeed, Drupal core does provide a very useful list of content available at the Content or Find content links (admin/content).
Our authors will want to add pictures, screenshots, and diagrams to the draft chapters or bonus content hosted on the web site.
drush dl insert image_resize_filter
FIXNOTE: At time of writing, insert did not have a recommended release and Drush could not download.
[The source code of the module developed in this section can had at gitorious.org/remarkup. It will be on Drupal.org but this author is Waiting For Git.]
Drupal's input filters are a fairly simple and powerful way to change how our content is displayed.
Along the way, we will see how easy, non-scary, and useful making a module can be.
