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DC Doc Sprint

Yesterday I headed into the city for the DC Doc Sprint. We had some difficulties because the library had assigned us a room which didn't have wi-fi, but we migrated up to lobby of the Black Studies section and got going there.

Two new projects: WHO-5 module and fictitious catering company

I'm working on two projects at the moment. The first is the development of a module which will administer, store, and report on outcomes of an administration of the WHO-5 Well Being Index. I'm still deciding on the feature list, but briefly I want it to:

Featured Content/Spotlight module

Based on a question in the forums, I went looking for a module to handle content spotlighting, selecting a single item (specifically a user) to be displayed separately in a Featured Content block and rotating the selected item on a cron basis (e.g., weekly).  To my surprise, there doesn't seem to be one. 

Blocking inappropriate usernames

A question came up in one of the forum posts on drupal.org about a module to prevent inappropriate usernames.  A couple options were discussed, including using access rules and the abuse module.  Mostly as a learning exercise, I decided to try my hand at writing a module to handle the issue.

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