An appendicitis is a painful, uncomfortable and ultimately debilitating condition one which I have suffered with for over a year. However, its remedy (Laproscopic surgery) is fairly tame as far as surgical procedures go - way too much money to an evil hospital, a shitton of painkillers and a week of bedrest

PHPitis is another condition I have been suffering from. It’s not early as painful and has provided me with a decent income and professional growth. It is also not a pussy inflamed organ with no apparent value pressing up against all the nicely formed and functioning organs around it. However, the feeling that there is something not right “down there” remains.
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As many people know, I’m really into workflow-ng.

I’ve integrated a few modules with it, and it allows for a killer amount of functionality and good (although probably complex) administrative interfaces for admins to do their own customization.

Simply put: this is my favorite module after CCK, Views and Panels, and it should be yours too..

More after the jump
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I had a slightly uncomfortable experience today on a mailing list I subscribe to which is for expats living in Delhi trying to help each other find their way around the city.

I signed up for it to try to find an apartment / stuff as I as setting up my flat, and I follow it from time to time. Some guy has set up a website tailored to expats, and also organizes “expat night” at a local club.

He sent the following advertisement to the list this morning:

Hi all,

I am looking for female expat bartenders for a bar/disco

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The workflow trinity: States, Owners and Rules

Amnesty International has 400+ employees in their London office who work in various capacities from research, to advocacy, to marketing and development of the organization. Their web and press divisions (primary admins of the website) need to create stories and press releases with input from all of these employees. As a result, workflow became a very important part of this project.
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Amnesty International goes Drupal

Introduction

Amnesty International has been advocating for and protecting human rights and human rights legislation internationally for the past 46 years. Its reputation and the foundation of Amnesty sections in most countries also has made it one of the most recognizable names in the world.

This project (code name IMPACT!) was the result of more than 5 years of attempts to upgrade Amnesty’s web presence and web CRM. Their previous site was based on a very antiquated Lotus Notes backend, a hodgepodge of dreamweaver templates, and dozens of offshoot micro sites.

Here are a few of the notable development efforts that were put forth for the project. Some are in contrib already, and others are on their way.

Workflow

Amnesty International has 400+ employees in their London office who work in various capacities from research, to advocacy, to marketing and development of the organization. Their web and press divisions (primary admins of the website) need to create stories and press releases with input from all of these employees. As a result, workflow became a very important part of this project.

Modules used:

• Workflow
• Workflow_ng
• Workflow_owner
• Custom Module for Amnesty Translation Workflow

More on our workflow setup

Stay Tuned:

Upcoming articles in this series include:

• Asset Management using the Asset module
• alFresco integration
• right-to-left drupal theming
• i18n + panels and views
• CiviCRM + i18n
• menutrails