Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and digital playground.

As of this morning, Ubercart has a beta release for use with Drupal 6, and it's ready to have the snot kicked out of it by some hard-hitting testers. Most of the changes from Ubercart 1 are internal, so experiencing Drupal 6 will probably be the biggest difference. We have also trimmed down our dependencies so that Token is the only core requirement to use Ubercart. Image support still requires the Content module from CCK along with ImageAPI, ImageAPI GD2, Image Cache, Filefield, and Imagefield.

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This may be a trivial case where user 1 (uid 1) can actually be deleted. This is the first user that you create on a fresh installation of Drupal and allows for full administration rights like a root user. But when you think about it, it is critical that this user should be prevented from being able to be deleted, otherwise you are completely locked out from doing any full administration on your site and to try and get this user back is a real pain in the ass. Just as bad is the fact you can also delete anonymous user (uid 0).  read more »

Modern Lovers is a site i built for a friend (Craig) who runs a club night (Modern Lovers) in Edinburgh. He supplied me with the design and i shaped and molded it into a Drupal 6 theme. Many contrib modules were installed to provide more functionality.  read more »

Being that Views is both a very popular module and included in Acquia Drupal, we get a lot of questions regarding how to configure and customize views in various ways. One thing that has come up a few times is a customer wanting to add custom searching or filters to their views.

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CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger and code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation.

Many of the things you see in the latest code would not have been possible without all the new Drupal 6 and Views 2 features. Drupal 6, CCK 2 and Views 2 make a great combination!

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Now there is no excuse not to upgrade modules to Drupal 6.