I was a lucky student at Virginia Tech from 1980-1984. I had a father who wrote me letters on a regular basis. They were always entertaining and thoughful. My father has been an inspiration and mentor my entire life. He passed away December 18th, 2009 and as I remembered back on the many talks we had, I recalled a letter he sent me in college. He had a great sense of humor and this letter has stayed with me over the years. I thought I had lost the letter but found it today and have decided to share a little of his sense of humor with you. I can't use or buy paper clips without this story in the back of my mind. He was a great man and will be missed.

Have you ever wanted to land on a node and have a block appear showing another node(s) that shares the same vocabulary term? This is easy enough if you only have a small predictable number of nodes and terms. You could simply create a series of view blocks that show all nodes with the term you want and then assign the block to the specific node. But, what if you wanted this block process to work when there was an undetermined number of nodes and terms? And what if you didn't want your client to have to create a block (manually or via a view) and assign the block each time a term was added?

Node access is not an uncommon topic in the Drupal community so why bother writing about it? Well, if you are new to Drupal or if you have been around it for awhile, unless you have had a need to manage content access, you probably haven't spent a lot of time thinking about your options. In this short article I am going to explore the idea of node access in Drupal and different ways to view it.

This article considers the insert view module as a means of adding a view to a page. With this method, you don't need a unique content type, you just need to enable the insert_view filter. This is probably the easiest way to insert a view into your page.

In this short article, I am going to look at using the view reference module as a means of adding a view to a page. With this method, you can create a content type that has an option to display content from a view. You can use a view as is or pass it an argument. The sections below present a sample scenario, steps for implementing view reference, and a layout tip.

In the early 1990's, the VP of TRW's System's Division was strongly encouraging the use of continuous improvement processes (CIP) to improve the way employees performed their work. The goal was to increase customer satisfaction and thus increase the probability of continued business and growth. I was one of the division's process improvement agents at the time. If memory serves me, I was asked to write up a summary of the work my improvement team was doing so that others would be motivated to do the same. Below is what I wrote. I share this with you in fun so please have fun reading it.

In this short article, I am going to share with you what Jess Snyder is doing with her sites by using the CCK computed field module. With this method, you can create a content type that is designed to display content from a view after the node has passed an argument to the view.