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Qivva Calendar for Eventlist
Been using this for a year now and its great. It never fails (it uses the data from the schlu.net EventList (component)) but it didn't colour the Event days differently according to the categories of the events on that day so I created a patch to do this. See the Qivva developer forum for my patch details.
obTODO
We have three admins in two different countries to administer one live and test site and so this is a nice way to help co-ordinate tasks between the admins. I now plan to add it to all the other sites I administer to help me remember where I'm up to in site changes (patching modules, template changes, backups etc). It installs fine except that it creates the database entries when it detects the state of a particular parameter with if ($params->get('installtodo', 0)) {
modJLordToDoHelper::install();
which is odd but easy to understand. I have tweaked the helper to add IF NOT EXISTS to the CREATE TABLE for this TODO module and I have added a corresponding DROP TABLE uninstall as I hate old tables in my databases. I'll send the developers my patch. Overall very useful for site admins.
userport
I need to maintain a sync between another database (ACT!) and Joomla. Our users won't add their own accounts - we do it for them. Thus this userport utility is perfect.
As part of our permissioning we will also bulk block and unblock users and delete them (when they don't pay membership fees. I thus needed a way of doing that....and being Open Source I just added the feature. The code was easy to follow and I could do what I wanted so I'm happy.
I have posted a new set of files with my changes for these new features so hopefully everyone will see them once translators have caught up if the developer thinks they are OK.
My next patch will be to look at a 'bot style interface so another computer can push a CSV file via a shell script. That would be cool.