CivicActions

Vertical Tabs module by Dmitri Gaskin is a Drupal module-ification of prototype work I did for the usability of Drupal's node forms, and was inspired partly by ideas in the discussion and design process of Views 2 UI – which was all part of my Season of Usability project.

Unexpectedly, it appears I will probably be able to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. So I have been working frantically to get my session proposals in. Here they are;

• Advanced Theming Techniques; Getting beginner themers up the Drupal theming learning curve.
• Paper Prototyping To Fix Usability Bugs; Designing and contributing drupal core usability bug fixes.
• Google Maps Mashups In <10 minutes; Using Drupal's GMap module to create Google Maps mashups on the fly, and showcase of the Hub Map.

Make sure you review other recent session proposals which don't get a lot of eyes or votes since they are on the last page.

One of the many great things about working at CivicActions is that we get a stipend for work we do for the community. This month I decided to use some of my stipend time to code up a proposed solution for Drupal core for dynamically loading paged content.

Why should paged content be loaded through AJAX? Well, take the example of comments. You're viewing a page with lots of comments. You click a link to bring up the next 30 comments. You wait while the whole page refreshes.