Since April of last year, I've been organizing the Drupal NYC Happy Hour. The idea is very simple, and one that I admittedly got from the Twin Citites group. Get a bunch of drupalers together to have a few drinks, with no other agenda. This simple concept has proven to be wildly popular, and we regularly see crowds of around 50 drupalers. Earlier today, in the #drupalnyc IRC room, kombucha suggested that having a regularly recurring date for our local Happy Hour may catch on in other groups. How cool would it be to have a Worldwide Drupal Happy Hour on the same day every month? Does your local Drupal group host a similar event?  If so, would you consider changing the date if we could agree on a standard date?

I've been hard at work lately on my new pet project, the Dialog API module. My goal for this module is simple. Take the incredibly simple CTools ajax command framework, and merry it to the jQuery UI Dialog widget, to provide an incredibly simple api for creating dynamic dialogs. The basis of this module comes from CTools' modal framework (which I wrote about previously), so if you've used that in the past, using dialog should be a breeze. Though this project is less than 2 months old, it is starting to gain some traction. Dave Reid just committed support for Dialog to both the 6.x and 7.x branches of XML Sitemap. There is also an issue in the Skinr queue to use Dialog in place of modalframe.

Last week I wrote about the awesomeness that is the CTools ajax framework. If you're anything like me, your mind immediately started racing about all the cool possibilities this opens up. One of those cool possibilities is yet another hidden CTools gem, the modal framework. If you've ever used panels, then you've seen CTools modals in action. In this post, I'll show you how to use modals, in the same way that panels does.

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