The past week here in Wellington New Zealand has been quite an exciting one with LCA (Linux Conf AU) and DrupalSouth (Drupal conference for New Zealand) both taking place. We had a lot of speakers from around the world come to Wellington to present what they've been up to and talk about there passions in Open Source. In particular, I was able to meet up with Angie Byron (webchick) again who is the Drupal 7 branch maintainer and Selena Deckelmann and Josh Berkus from the PostgreSQL community. We all sat down and had lunch together and talked databases and PostgreSQL support for Drupal.

In short, Drupal 6 Site Blueprints is a Drupal book for beginners and not a bad one at that. It uses application, excersises and repetition to teach the reader how to use Drupal in several different contexts. Anything from a personal blog to a multimedia events based site with multiple accounts.

Sick of repeating the same steps every time I wrote a custom module for a project, I decided to write a simple script that generated the base structure for creating a Drupal module.

Being a developer who likes to make stuff take less time by spending ages on the tools that make it take less time, I extended the simple script and turned it into a debian package.

So! I give to you! a debian package to easily download and install on your Ubuntu or Debian machine and start using this great tool.

Firstly you need to some stuff that makes the tool work: php5-cli and libreadline:

As all well and done providing PostgreSQL support for Drupal Core - it an important job that provides future proofing for thousands of projects around the world. But it doesn't, well that is to say it shouldn't, stop at just core.