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Introduction

For the past five or six months, I've been itching to write a Drupal module. It seems to me to be the final step in attaining that Drupal nirvana, and you gain instant street cred as well at the monthly meet-ups. I've heard it also can up your certified to rock score too, since you get commits added to your history.

Sure, you can set a shortcut to admin/config or install the devel module, but what if you could clear your cache with one button?

This small module adds a flush cache button to your menu for easy, one-click cache flusing!

It could add years back to your life, and your wrist.

It has no configuration, just install and enable.

You may not want to use this on a production site - or at least disable it when you go live, since a permissions check might not be enough to prevent an unauthorized user from flushing your cache.

I've been reading Chad Fowler's "The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life)", and in one chapter he introduced the

I used the Apture Service on my old Drupal 6 site with the Apture module, but since updating to Drupal 7, I found it was one of the modules that didn't have a Drupal 7 version.

I decided that I missed it enough, to rewrite it for Drupal 7. If you aren't familiar with the service or the module, here is what it can do for you:

Using the Twitter Profile Widget module on your Drupal site allows you to very quickly and easily add twitter updates.

Sure, there are other modules that pull twitter feeds, like Twitter Block and Twitter Pull, but the twitter profile widget adds the ability to customize the display of the twitter account you choose.