Nodes for Breakfast is an informal collaboration between Dylan Riordan and Michael Stenta. Two Drupal developers who build big complex websites.
Recent posts
Create custom Form API elements with hook_element_info() in Drupal 7
This article describes how to define your own Form API elements in Drupal 7 using hook_element_info().
Organize your module code with hook_hook_info() (Drupal 7)
Drupal 7 introduced a wonderful new hook called hook_hook_info(). It's an optional hook that module developers can use to organize their code and increase performance (a bit). It basically allows you to declare the hooks that your module implements, and optionally separate them into multiple files, so they aren't all in one *.module file. Read on to see how it works.
Add/remove columns from a compound CCK field with hook_update_n()
As is sometimes the case when you're building software, requirements change, and in my case I needed to change the data architecture of my compound CCK field after it had been released to a live site. I wasn't able to find many articles explaining the proper way to do this, so I dug into a few modules that have already figured it out, and the following is a basic overview of how to do it.
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
Dylan and Mike at DrupalCon Chicago 2011