I started a new project at Drupal.org today. It’s called Ubercart Auction, and, as you may have guessed, it’s a module which adds auction capabilities to the excellent Ubercart shopping cart system for Drupal. (At the time I posted this, the lovely D.o robots had yet to pack the code together into a downloadable dev release yet, but hopefully it’ll happen soon.) It was written for a client whose site isn’t live yet who is going to want to sell things via auction on their store. After seeing how well the module was progressing and how useful it could be for other people, I asked our contact there if they would be cool with us releasing it for free, and he gave us the okay.
Drupal’s other e-commerce solution, appropriately named Drupal e-Commerce, already has an auction solution. However, Ubercart seems to have more momentum nowadays. It’s a bit complicated to set up, and the D6 version isn’t up to snuff yet, but it’s quite the capable little bugger. Heck, anything’s better than the horrid tangle of code that is osCommerce (or, as a friend and I dubbed it last night, posCommerce).
I also started work last night (on my own time) on a little module which would provide a block telling site visitors how many form submissions the lovely anti-spam service Mollom has blocked on your site. I was hoping to have it done tonight, but Mollom’s servers seem to always report that it’s blocked zero submissions, which can’t be right. If I can get these issues resolved soon, I’ll probably create a project for it over the weekend.
