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Building out Drupal module interfaces with a stub function

A technique that I’m finding quite useful during module development is to create a “stub” function for use as a generic interface callback for menu items that I want to define, but haven’t yet written callbacks for. For example, if I were building a Drupal 5 module called widgetmaster, I would define:

GMail Aliases for Testing Multiple Drupal User Registrations

One of GMail's handier features that people are still surprised to learn about is the ability to make multiple, unique address aliases on the fly.

If your GMail address is example@gmail.com, emails sent to example+user1@gmail.com, example+user2.gmail.com, example+admin@gmail.com will all go to the root example@gmail.com address.

Using Facebook to Bolster Alumni Contact Data

I was talking the other day with Rich Portelance from Canterbury School about the things that they are doing with technology at the school. Rich has a background in branding and marketing and our conversation naturally turned to the social media topics that my friend Peter Baron at AdmissionsQuest has been talking so much about.