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The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st November in Trinity College Dublin and will run from 9am to 5pm both days. Thanks to our generous sponsors, Microsoft, Trellon and Annertech, the camp is being held free of charge with lunch being provided as well. You can now register for the event at http://www.drupalcampireland.org

New releases of the FAQ module have been made - versions 5.x-2.15 and 6.x-1.12. This release includes a fair few new features, including views support and new "delete faq content" and "delete own faq content" permissions. There are also a number of bug fixes too.

The new features added include:

• #780446 - added views support
• #855520 - allow for long question text not to be set at all.

So this is something I don't say often enough - there are finally, after a 20+ month gap, new releases of the Lightbox2 module available! Yes, I know, I know, I've been rather remiss in my module maintainer duties lately, but basically work, masters and life got in the way, and now with the masters finished, I'm back in the zone shall we say. :)

I haven't had time to blog in a while. It's been a busy summer, what with trying to finish my masters and then breaking my ankle and ending up in hospital. However, the masters is now finally submitted and the cast is off. Whohoo! Yet, somehow in the middle of all of that, I found time to go to Drupalcon Copenhagen, and I'm so glad I do.

First of all a disclaimer, part of the intention of this blog post is to see if anyone else has a better solution. This is something I came up with but I'm not entirely happy with the solution as it involves running the sql query twice. :(

One of the issues I encountered when migrating nodes to Drupal, using the migrate module, was that I couldn't associate nodes with more than one taxonomy term. Actually in this example, I'm migrating content from one Drupal database to another, so I'm going to assume everyone is already familiar with the database structure, specifically the node and term_node tables.

Currently the Migrate module doesn't support full migration of poll nodes. When the poll module is enabled, you can create a content set mapping for a poll node, but you are unable to set the poll status (active or closed) and, more importantly, you can't migrate the poll choices.

Using the hook_migrate_prepare_node() and hook_migrate_complete_node() hooks, I was able to migrate all choices for each node, along with all existing votes stored.

There are a number of different authentication methods available for integrating with Google Apps. These include OpenID, OAuth and SAML amongst others. At a first glance, it's not always entirely clear on the differences between them and when you may wish to use one over another. Here's a brief overview which hopefully makes this a bit clearer.

Time is flying by. There is now only 7 weeks to go to DrupalCon San Francisco! I'm really looking forward to it I have to admit. Although I've visited the US a fair bit, I've never been to the west coast, not to mind say San Francisco. Dermot is coming over with me this time, and we're planning on taking an extra week to travel around and do some sightseeing. We're also going to visit a good friend of mine, Aimee, in LA, and then travel back up to Sacremento to visit other friends.

The Image FUpload module is an add-on to the Image and CCK's Imagefield modules, and allows you to upload multiple images at once with just a few simple clicks. You can use it with both single-value and multi-value imagefields, and it will automatically create the nodes for you.