What's new? Drupal module by stylesen (v 0.1)

I wrote my first Drupal module today. I ve named it as "What's new?". Yeah exactly the block which you see at the right side bar in this website. Previously I had popular contents in the same place which is a default block feature present in Drupal. It was not getting updated frequently because the popular contents gets changed after a long while. Then I was thinking today to change that particular block with some other content. I was updating my poems as a page entry which is added as a content but there is no means to show those new poem pages or any new content for that matter separately in the website. So I decided to write my own module known as "What's new?" and Drupal code base is so easy that I was able to finish it within a hour or so :)

This module basically shows the latest content (a node in drupal terms) added to the Drupal CMS. Whatever you add in Drupal as a node, and whether you provide a explicit link or not, it will appear in the What's new? block. You can set the limit of how many links to be shown in the block, now I ve limited it to 5 links in the block.

There are few more enhancements which should be done for this module and I am working on it, which I hope to finish before this weekend. I would like to release it to the Drupal community.

So today I ve become a drupal module developer today :)