Working with Drupal

We have had a few situations now where we have needed to send out a newsletter to all our users, only to find that non of them have bothered to sign up to it!

So like true marketeers (were not really!) we wanted a way to have our users signed up to the newsletter automatically - whilst still giving them the option of un-subscribing.

The module is pretty simple, and currently only works on Drupal 4.7 - although we will put together a v5 release pretty soon.

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The problem
Drupal offers some powerful caching features, but they are by no means perfect as we discovered when building the site http://www.booktribes.com.

Booktribes uses some simple custom blocks to display some semi-dynamic content, content such as the "rotating" lists of celebrity favourite books. Turning on Drupal page caching offers a significant performance boost to the site, but it means that our dynamic front page content suddenly becomes static - which is bad news.

So, the solution - write a simple module that will refresh the page cache a a given interval, every 15 minutes the cached pages are regenerated...