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I claim this Spain for land(ing)! (updated)

Submitted by Larry on 16 September 2007 - 4:39pm

So it's a bit belated, but for those who haven't gotten a phone call from me, you get this instead. Yes, I have made it to Spain alive (and calling the US is expensive, dagnabbit). DrupalCon starts on Wednesday, so in the mean time I am doing my best to uplhold the image of the stupid American tourist.

I will spare you the daily blow by blow, as this isn't that sort of blog, but I will make a few comments on the wonders of international travel...

Abstracting databases

Submitted by Larry on 30 August 2007 - 1:03am

There has been some discussion recently, in IRC, issue queues, and blogs, about the Drupal 7 database API and its impact on supporting different database engines. While I am still trying to avoid large amounts of public distraction, especially when we're supposed to be trying to get a Drupal 6 beta 1 out the door, I feel it's important to get a few points cleared up lest they lead to confusion later.

Drupalcon IRC session for planning, housing

Submitted by Larry on 28 August 2007 - 10:32pm

Just a quick note in case you're one of those people who reads Drupal Planet but doesn't check drupal.org's front page daily (like, you know, me), there will be an IRC session to coordinate housing and transportation (and possibly parties) on 29 August 2007 at 7 pm GMT +1 in #Drupalcon on Freenode. I'm planning to be there, and if you don't have firm plans for everything you're doing for DrupalCon Barcelona yet, you should be too! (Be sure to check your timezone offset.)

Palantir.net is hiring

Submitted by Larry on 17 August 2007 - 6:19pm

Are you tired of hearing me talk yet? If not, why not come work for Palantir.net? We're looking for a PHP/Drupal programmer and a web developer/themer. Benefits include a full time position at a small business in Chicago, working on sites for higher education, not-for-profits, and other non-evil clients, a company issue Nerf gun, and access to the company Wii. And getting to work with Larry! Who could ask for a better job?

Drupal 7 database plans

Submitted by Larry on 28 July 2007 - 2:04am

I've been talking up some evil plans I have for Drupal's database system in Drupal 7 lately, without going into a great deal of detail. For the most part, I've been trying to avoid distracting people, myself included, from the considerable work still remaining on Drupal 6. However, there has been recent work and discussion of making post-freeze changes to Drupal 6's database system, and even backporting them to Drupal 5. Those changes revolve mostly around database replication, which Drupal currently doesn't support in any meaningful way. That becomes important, though, on very heavy sites like, say, I don't know, Drupal.org. :-)

Those changes, though, impact the API changes we can make in Drupal 7. (OK technically they don't, since we change APIs all the time, but if we can set things up so as to minimize API changes over time that does make life easier for everyone.) For that reason, at Dries suggestion, I'm going to try and lay out now a skeleton of what I'm planning for Drupal 7's database system and how we can start adding replication support to Drupal 6 in a way that flows into it.