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This is a patch to fix "other" listing in the user_list module and also adds new custom menu path feature.

There is a bug where the "other" listing includes users whose usernames begin with 'z'. This patch fixes this bug.

This patch also adds a new feature to allow customization of the menu path. The default remains "userlist" but the settings form now allows you to change it to a custom path.

http://drupal.org/node/837738

On an active site, the notify module doesn't play nicely with cron. Simply put, it can't send out the emails quick enough, so cron times out and notify doesn't update it's last run time so the next cron run it starts all over again. This results in a *lot* of duplicate emails to people.

This patch should fix that:

http://drupal.org/node/365700#comment-3156896

For general CHIME project and site update news, I've switched over to posting to the CHIME Facebook site. For the time being I'll keep labs.chime.com around for any more specific building related tidbits I have time to share.

In the meantime, check out http://facebook.com/chimeinteractive which includes news about other Tom Petty site updates, a brand new web site launch (another great Drupal case study!) for Sammy Hagar (http://www.redrocker.com/), and time we've been spending in the studio with Joe Satriani and Los Lobos.

Another great PROD-designed site and for this one it was a LiveNation project so we implemented it using the LiveNation CMS system. http://www.tompetty.com/

we've finally launched a nice little app we built a couple months ago called Moonalice Twitter Radio. it's an automated playlist system that allows bands (moonalice in this case) to send out timed links to media files through their twitter channel, effectively giving away their music to their fans in the spirit of tape trading -- share the music and support the band by coming to shows and buying merch!

admins can also dedicate certain tracks to users which heavily increases the re-tweets in the community and strengthens the bond between fans and artist.

after the october launch of the revised ben harper site with community interaction and the latest primedrupal drupal ajax framework, this launch about a month later includes a full on assault of archive materials (over 6 thousand tour photos alone!)-- the full gigography with setlists from ben's entire career, plus full album streaming, user playlists, contests and more!

oh yeah, it also is our first site to feature facebook connect integration which is mighty handy now that almost everyone has a facebook account. try it out!

http://www.benharper.com/

we're incredibly pleased to announce the release of the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of the chickenfoot album. this release includes the CD with an extra bonus track plus a DVD with an hour of bonus live, studio and misc footage that was produced by chime and edited by jon luini and arthur rosato. even cooler, this packaging is reactive to black light to reveal hidden artwork and text.

pick it up at best buy today! http://www.bestbuy.com/chickenfoot

More site launches recently-- this time a new site for George Harrison and a big update for Ben Harper & Relentless7 that both share the new and improved Drupal/Ajax framework that we've been working on for quite some time.

http://www.benharper.com/
http://www.georgeharrison.com/

lots going on the past few months!

new sites launched!

* beastie boys w/ PROD (hello nasty, ill communication, etc)

* new site for the waybacks (great player from PROD, fine html building work by mark thornton) and design by chris shaw

plus a tons of video work:

* tons of new product videos for Korg/Vox (Night Train, AC4TV, VT, MicroKorgXL, MicroSampler, Big Bad Wah, Nano series, PA588, SV-1),

* some real fun gag videos for Joe Satriani's vox line of pedals

* and a ton of CHICKENFOOT video work (full length music videos for Oh Yeah and Soap On A Rope, a 12-episode podcast series "12 Days of the Foot", a number of backstage/promo videos from the road, and the real kicker, a 1-hour DVD for Nov 1 release! Kudos to director-in-crime Arthur Rosato on all chickenfoot videos, plus some fine video work from Chris Sentovich and Jojo Pennebaker and DVD authoring from Rich Winter.

http://hellonasty.beastieboys.com/
http://illcommunication.beastieboys.com/
http://www.waybacks.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/KorgUSAVideos&view=videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=VOXampsforever&view=videos
http://www.chickenfoot.us/ and http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=44512487307

on friday night i'll be working with moonalice to have them twitter their CD release show. as far as we know, this is the first time it's been done and should be fun! press release here http://www.fanmanager.net/news/154