My typical morning blog writing time has gotten taken over by morning code writing recently, which I’m quite happy about, as I’ve been making very reasonable progress on a new drupal module: lending. This is still in the sandbox as I’m still in the project approval queue, but you are welcome to check out the code if interested.

The basic idea is an informal lending library designed to support the astronomy club. We at the club have a lot of DVDs and other things that club membership gives you access to. Up until now this was handled with index cards and crates. Someone suggested that we have a way to request items to lend so the full set of crates doesn’t have to be dragged around by our librarian at every meeting.

Most of the drupal modules in this space were really about reservations, and were really more complicated than I thought I could get people to consistently use. So I broke down and started building the module to just meet our needs. Some time spent with Pro Drupal and the drupal website, got me most of the way there. My hope is to have the 1.0 version of this out for next Tuesday’s astronomy meeting.

Once the project is official approved, I’ll throw up some screenshots to show the walk throughs of using it. Now, back to hacking in emacs.