In less than a week I'm off to DrupalDownunder for work as the company I work for has started to look at using more Drupal in the work they do for clients.

Given that I've not delved too deep into Drupal and certainly never developed on it, I thought I had better find out a bit about it before the conference.

I decided to write a module similar to oa4wp that displays your MP's most recent speeches in a block. After a few hours hacking on Sunday afternoon, here it is:

OpenAustralia Drupal in a content block

I was pleased to get something usable in such a short amount of time and found the development reasonably straight-forward, despite the documentation for developers not really being there yet for version 7.

The block also works quite well as a sidebar, depending on what you want to use it for.

Install it, just like any other module, by downloading it and putting it in its own directory in the sites/all/modules folder of your Drupal site.