Do you have a Drupal module you want to upgrade to Drupal 7?
Do you want to know how to leverage the Drupal 7 database layer to make your module better?
Will you be at DrupalCon?
There should be about 500 of you that meet that criteria, by my estimate. More than enough for a BoF. :-)
Are you all set for DrupalCon Paris?
Through the mysteries of scheduling, Paris ended up with not one, but two sessions on Views. The first, from Frédéric Marand, is a 4 hour workshop on Views 2 for coders on day 1. The second is yours truly in a 50 minute session on Views for Developers on day 2.
Sounds very similar, doesn't it? Yeah, we thought so too. Not to worry, though, as we've worked out how to keep both sessions distinct and interesting.
Here's how it will break down, so you can decide which session you want to go to (and you'll want to be at least in one of them; this is Views, after all):
"Beta" is the animated under construction graphic of Web 2.0.
There has been some discussion in recent days regarding Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs), Drupal, and why the latter doesn't use the former. There are, actually, many reasons for that, and for why Drupal doesn't do more with the Active Record pattern.
Rather than tuck such discussion away in an issue queue, I figured it better to document a bit more widely.
According to Drupal.org, it has now been four years and five days since I first joined the Drupal community. My how time flies, and how much has changed since then.
Fields API won't win any beauty contests, but it might win a monster truck rally.
Oof!
I like giving presentations. I really do. But this has been quite a conference season this year; certainly my busiest ever. Four conferences in four different states, and nine presentations. And the year isn't even half over yet...
Here's what I've been up to:
When I was younger my dad told me real men drink their coffee black... I tried it for a month and then I told him real men choose their own path in life.
There's been a fair bit of talk about PHP IDE's of late. That's not surprising given how useful they can be. (Really, folks, vi can only take you so far.) Most of the attention has been focused on the big boys: Eclipse and its derivatives (both free and commercial), Komodo, and NetBeans. Eclipse and NetBeans are both Java based, and Komodo is based on Mozilla's XUL platform (which also runs Firefox and company). I've been bouncing between them for a while, and haven't really been satisfied with any of them. I usually refer to Eclipse as the one I hate least. :-)
There's a new contender to keep an eye on, though, that is worthy of notice: KDevelop.
My free time is measured using imaginary numbers.