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Posted by Merlin on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 12:10am
"Jesse", a blogger who apparently has just one article and either wants to build a reputation for a new venture or simply wants to be anonymous (hard to say which) posted a fairly long article on his site called 4 problems with Drupal.
I read this article, and I started out a little annoyed. It makes some false or at least misleading assertions. I immediately commented on one obvious one, and then as I thought about it, I felt a need to address the entirety of his arguments, because they are, in all, flawed.
Posted by Merlin on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 11:17pm
This is still very much in progress. I’m told it doesn’t work at all on Safari, and even in Firefox it has some quirks. Doesn’t even save yet. But you can drag panels around. Add content. Remove content. Pretend to configure the content.
http://panels.demo.logrus.com/
Posted by Merlin on Fri, 03/24/2006 - 10:47am
If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’ve been interested in Access Control Lists. In the previously mentioned article, I said some erroneous things. In a later article, I meant to correct them, but I was buzzing so much from excitement that all I managed to get out was “I did it.” Well, I did implement ACLs, and I did it without patching core.
This article isn’t really about ACLs, but it is about one of the things the ACL module does — which is to provide a widget to seamlessly edit the user list.[inline:1]
Posted by Merlin on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 8:49pm
One annoying thing about having a million things to do is that no matter which of those million things I’m doing, there’s 999,999 other things that I’m feeling guilty about for not doing. But all of them are important at one level or another. Today I didn’t do some Views debugging that I really meant to do. Instead, after my housemate took his first look at Drupal, all those thoughts and ideas I have about Drupal’s administrative interface came to the surface.
In this article, I want to talk about the whole process of the work I’ve done, what led up to it, the road ahead, why it’s important, and where I hope it will go.
Posted by Merlin on Tue, 02/14/2006 - 8:55am
This actually started out as a single idea, then it blossomed into three ideas, and then at the very end of my thinking, it reduced to two ideas. Apparently I’d forgotten why I’d written a certain high profile module, and it took me a good 30 minutes to realize I was approaching it from the slightly wrong angle.
In order to preserve that flawed logic, I will describe my train of thought: One of the things I have long wanted, but have not yet gotten around to doing, is to allow scheduling based upon the Node Queue. One of the original design points, and the reason it’s even called a queue is that it’s supposed to be a bucket that a site maintainer can drop nodes in. They go in on one end, and eventually they go out another end.
Posted by Merlin on Fri, 03/24/2006 - 10:22am
 Somehow I forgot to mention this on my blog, but a week or two ago I ported a theme from OSWD primarily for use on a friend’s site; as I got it ready, I realized I had only another hour (or 2 or 3..) of work to make it a fully usable theme, so I did.
The theme is called Antique Modern and the original is by Aaron Ganshow AKA wildleaf.
Posted by Merlin on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 3:28pm
I'd like to compile a list of modules that use Views heavily (examples: Flag, Views Bulk Operations, Views Attach, Views Reference) with a blurb about each of them. The blurb would contain a neutral description of what they do, and then a non-neutral comment on the quality and maintenance level of the modules. Obviously the latter is a judgment call and I don't expect it to be completely dead on, but I would like to note projects that are well known to rarely get bugs fixed. Another comment might be known usage levels, some of which can be gleaned from the shiny new usage statistics.
Posted by Merlin on Sun, 01/29/2006 - 10:11pm
One of the things that happened with Angry Donuts here is that while I was fiddling with the logo and stuff, someone popped into the IRC and started asking about how hard it would be to implement DHTML menus based on this script. The person went by Aw0L and I have no idea who that is, otherwise, but I did end up getting the script working, after giving it a pretty serious workover.
Posted by Merlin on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 4:06pm
There's currently a discussion going around twitter about the idea of a Drupal App Store. Now, I don't actually want to talk about the merits and problems of the idea itself. From what I can tell, what this really is meant to be is a conversation starter for a presentation that Robert Douglass is giving in Brussels. And the idea of an App Store has some very interesting ramifications, some positive, and some negative.
But as I said, that's not what I need to get off my chest.
Posted by Merlin on Tue, 11/14/2006 - 4:52pm
So you have Views, and you've figured out exposed filters. Which, in short, gives nice handy little widgets to search. Often by keyword or by some taxonomy term.
Now what you want to do is put that functionality in a block. Say you're doing a catalog search or you have something you just want to always be up.
No Problem!
You need 2 snippets. In Drupal 4.7, the first goes in a custom block, and looks thus:
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