Cross-posted from Mike Kadin's Technical Blog

The Module Off is off to a great start. We've had more than a thousand visitors to the site, and 12 intrepid Drupalists took a shot at the first ever challenge. We've received a lot of feedback from the community, which we really appreciate. We're listening! Here's what we've done so far.

The first challenge called for a module that would add an AJAX-y link to a date field on a node display that would update the field to the current date. We had a ton of great submissions (which have all been published). After much deliberation, the award for the first ever Module Off challenge goes to theunraveler! theunraveler's module 'date_today' went above and beyond and was very well explained in his screencast. If you're interested in how to create AJAX forms, I encourage you to check it out! He'll be taking home a brand new Nexus 7 tablet! Congratulations! Big ups to tim.plunkett who receives an honorable mention for a really great module as well. Tim's explanation for some tricky parts to working with languages as well as his use of hook_field_extra_fields() is definitely worth examining.

Without further adieu, I present theunraveler's module and explanation video!

Download the Module: tar.gz | zip

P.S. check out the next challenge! Streamline the entity reference autocomplete by adding some 'recent selections' links. You've got two weeks to win some free Pantheon hosting so get on it!

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