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"Doesn't Play Nicely" is a presentation given at DrupalSouth Wellington 2010.

Providing technical support to Drupal developers and implementors, there are plenty of examples of module conflicts you get to see. I decided to throw together a handful of examples in order to stimulate some reflection amongst the developers in the audience could help avoid such conflicts in the future.

LoginToboggan, a Drupal module which adds lots of useful features for login management, has for a long time prevented the use of spaces in passwords. A user on one of our high-profile sites drew this to our attention, and the resulting patch has been accepted into the next releases of LoginToboggan for Drupal 5, 6 and 7.

Yay! Thanks to Simon for bringing the issue to light.

Have been meaning to check out SilverStripe in more depth since the presentation at BCA a month or two back. It looks really good, but as with all new tools there's a lead time in getting familiar, and so you tend to stick to your familiar toolkit by default.

Sunday 20th and Monday 21st April was CiviCRM Bootcamp in Melbourne - an excellent couple of days of training, discussion, and discovery.