jacob.pappe's blog

We have developed a custom Drupal module for a client that I'm really excited about. We are in the process of contributing it to the Drupal community and I wanted to get the word out.

The module is called Cred, and it allows users to create nodes that are then graded by other users. These grades are compiled into a user's Cred Point Average (or CPA), which is displayed on their profile page. We used Jyte as our inspiration for this module. Our goal was to create a fun way for users to create content, spur discussion, and generate reputation all at the same time.

I typically use Ubuntu for development and I've gotten used to having a full-featured terminal. Moving into a Windows environment for a .NET project, I've become increasingly frustrated with the shell application. I'm not even talking about the niceties of bash, such as tab-completion and sensible colors (which can be achieved through Cygwin with minimal effort). I mean things like being unable to drag-resize the window or copy and paste in a natural way.

Today, I decided to solve my problem using two of my favorite Windows applications: Putty SSH and Cygwin.