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Radioactivity 2: basics

5. December 2011 - Teemu Merikoski
With Radioactivity 2 nearly out of its beta form, I thought I'd write a bit about what it is and what you can do with it and most importantly walk you through on how to use it. Radioactivity 2 allows you to track any fieldable entities; users, nodes, commerce products, etc. It can be used as a simple view counter but also as a popularity or activity meter, e.g. with it you can create a 'most viewed nodes at this moment' list. There is also limited rules which allows you to create an activity meter for basically whatever you want.

fbconnect + domain

25. March 2011 - Teemu Merikoski

 

Extending and modifying the way modules work is most of the time really easy with hooks. With good enough design most of the modules can be made to work with each other seamlessly, but sometimes gluing modules together might get a bit painful; some time ago I was presented with a task to make Facebook Connect work with Domain Access. Within the projects technical parameters the only way to go about it was to do some detective work and code the functionality.

I will now give you an example on how you'll get it done, also this will serve as an example on how to glue together two modules and possibly benefit the community :) A warning though; this is quite code intensive and some experience is needed on how Drupal works. Also it should be noted that fbconnect and domain might not be the best modules to glue together, but stuff like this should not be feared.

Note that the result was posted as an issue/patch to d.org here.

The ones that were cool enough

6. October 2010 - Teemu Merikoski

It's been weeks since DrupalCon and I thought I'd write down some of the stuff that I think were the most valuable (or rather the things that struck me the most, or the things that have stuck with me):

Drupal 7

Naturally. Not yet 100% finished but slowly getting there. If you're considering launching a site in 2011 you should choose D7; it is that much better from both the end end users point of view and the developers. Oh, and themers.

Finnish payments for Übercart

19. August 2010 - Teemu Merikoski

Finland has been a forerunner in online banking for years and a massive contributor to the open source sector. At the same time online shopping has become mundane and everyone is out to make money by selling stuff from their basements or garages.

However, Drupal's Übercart has been missing a way to do online payments in Finland directly without any hassles and third parties getting involved. In fact whole online shopping scene in Finland has suffered from the lack of an open source API.

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