I just realized that after the last big update of Drupal 7 themes onto the site, Drupalservers.net is now cataloging over 200 of the top Drupal themes from Drupal.org. I have been focusing my efforts on cataloging as many new Drupal 7 themes as possible. I made a big push the other night to add all of the latest Drupal 7 themes I could find, and I never even realized that I had added the 200th theme to the site and more.

It seems that every Friday is going to be a tough schedule to keep up with, so Featured Module Friday will be on any given Friday until further notice. At some point hopefully I can get my schedule in line to do a Featured Module every Friday, but until then any Friday will have to do. So to stick with the format, I will be featuring a new module today. If you can't tell from the title of the post, this Friday's Featured Module is the Hacked! module.

I felt that I have been giving too much attention to Drupal themes recently, so I have decided to do a weekly showcase on a Drupal module that everyone should be using or should use if the need arises. I am dubbing this weekly showcase Featured Module Friday. Hopefully I will be able to stick to the schedule and release an informative post about a great module every Friday. In any case, there over 10,000 modules listed on Drupal.org, so I should not run out of modules to write about in my lifetime.

After a pretty stressful past week or so, I have finally received a response from Dries Buytaert's lawyers regarding the status of Drupalservers.net's Drupal trademark license. According to their email, my site, Drupalservers.net, is granted an automatic license on certain terms that I will not go into publicly. I am very thankful for the automatic license, as it is a recognition that I am providing a useful website for the Drupal community. I hope to continue doing so for my tenure using Drupal.

After trying out the VPS hosting available from Chunkhost, I decided to move off of Hostgator shared hosting and move to something with a bit more power such as a VPS. At the time I was shopping around for a new hosting company, Chunkhost, who I was looking to get my VPS from, was actually out of VPS hosts and was in the process of securing new hardware and setting it up. Initially I was shocked to hear that Chunkhost was out of "Chunks", but I guess every good company has to go through an expansion or two before they are more prepared for that sort of situation. I decided to give Linode VPS hosting a try, and so far I am very pleased with my decision.

This year at Drupalcon Chicago there was a ton of swag that was given away in the registration bag. I also happened to get a lot of extra stuff from the many vendor tables that were around the main convention hall. One particular card stuck out to me the most of all, which was for VoIP Drupal. Coming from a systems administration background, I was intrigued by this mashup of my old profession and my new profession. After I got back home, I decided to look it up and happened to stumble upon a gem of a module called AudioRecorderField. The module is fairly new, contributed just back on Feb. 25th, 2011, but offers some amazing functionality to Drupal for recording and playing of .wav files in the browser.

There seems to be a lot of misconception out there right now that a Drupal theme is called a Drupal template. This can be seen in the Google Insights for Search tool, as it is a breakout term. This could be because a lot of new people are using Drupal, which is good, but we need to make sure that we let them know it’s called a theme.

Ubercart is an online shopping cart software built using the Drupal CMS. Like all Drupal modules, Ubercart is open source, so it is a free shopping cart. Ubercart allows you to turn any Drupal website into a fully functional Ecommerce store. Because of this, you can really build a full ecommerce platform around Drupal with Ubercart and other modules. Even though Ubercart is a very easy shopping cart to use, there is even a whole community built around Ubercart itself that can be found at http://ubercart.org. You can find a lot of great information on Ubercart there that you won’t find on Drupal.org, and they even have their own contributed modules that don’t always get included on Drupal.org either. It’s a great site to stop by if you are looking to learn more about Ubercart and it’s features.

It has taken me some time as I have added all 100 modules manually in my free time, but I have catalogued each of the Top 100 Drupal Modules with lots of information currently available. I plan to add more information as I continue to build out new CCK fields. Currently I am cataloging the full module information page, the module publish date, the module author, and module dependencies. There are also direct links to the module author and module page on Drupal.org.

It really wasn't my goal to get a CVS account on Drupal.org, but because of my mindset of contributing back to the community where I can, I felt it was best with the route I have chosen. I have been noticing some trends as my use of Drupal has grown, and one of the biggest ones is that there is not as large of an adoption rate to Drupal as Wordpress. Because of this I have decided to bring as many great looking GPL themes to Drupal as I can, as it seems that is one of the main reasons people don't use Drupal. They just can't seem to find a great looking theme for their site. My goal is to change that. Many of my themes are going to be converted Wordpress themes, but there is no better way to promote Drupal to the Wordpress community but by open source collaboration.