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Drupal 7 has been released!

Drupal 7 has finally been released! It took close to three years and lots of effort and contributions from the community to make this happen. This new release sees a whole load of new features and other improvements. Read on to find out more.

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DrupalCamp Dublin 2010

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. 

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Migrate module: migrating a node's taxonomy terms

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.

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Migrate module: migrating poll nodes

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.
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Overview of Google authentication methods

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.

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Ubercart: modifying checkout panes

The Ubercart module is one of the best e-commerce options for Drupal currently. It is very user friendly and highly flexible with administrators having control over the product catalogue, payment gateways and email notifications. Site administrators also have control over which checkout panes are displayed during checkout and the order in which they appear.

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Migrate module: file handling

So you're migrating pages and users from another CMS to Drupal using the Migrate module, but how do you handle all those file attachments? This example will cover taking the input filename and adding it to an imagefield on a Drupal content type. However, this should work in exactly the same way for filefields too.
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Modifying your site's email "From" header

By default, all email sent from your site uses the site email address configured at admin/settings/site-information as the "from" address. On most sites this is set to something generic, like "webmaster@example.com" or "noreply@example.com". However in a lot of mail clients, when the email reaches your inbox, it appears as being just from "webmaster" or "noreply". Wouldn't it be better if it appeared as being from "Your site" or whatever you have set your site name to be?