EDIT: Comments on this post are now locked. Some jackhole came onto MY blog and insulted my wife. I cannot be fair, impartial or unbiased about that.

Full disclosure: I am a former Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. While I am no longer associated with the organization, I do have reasonably good knowledge of its inner workings and maintain contact with many people within the structure.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/merlinofchaos/the-chaos-tools-suite

This is the modal test module. You can create the .info file that goes with it.

Heading to the airport to go to Paris shortly. DrupalCon is Sep 1-5 and it'll be fun to see a bit of Paris before that.

For the next two weeks expect no or next to no activity from me in any of my issue queues. For a week or two after we come back, don't expect much better. Post-trip trauma is always fun.

Note: Slides from my presentation are posted at the end. If you don't care about the rest but want the slides, skip to that.

I have actually been in Boston since Friday morning, but a low level of burnout has kept me away from blogging for a bit. There has been a LOT going on lately with Views 2 and Panels 2 and the Drupal Association and there's definitely a lot of the whelming in the overwhelming.

I haven't posted so much recently. I've really had my head down trying to get Views 2 to a point where more people can start working on it, and I hope to have an alpha prior to DrupalCon Boston. Since that's only a month away, that's a pretty exciting timeline.

Here's a rough idea of my TODO list:

• Retool argument handlers to better handle the fact that they can have their own style plugins for summaries. Also to make their default behavior more overrideable.
• Support rearranging fields/sorts/filters/etc via drag & drop.
  

It's Sunday, and DrupalCon Barcelona ended yesterday.

It was the biggest DrupalCon ever, boasting a registration list of over 420 people and it seems likely that most all of them attended, and I know at least one person who intended to attend but was mistakenly not registered (and for whatever reason didn't just donate 50 euros and attend. I'm pretty sure they could have accommodated that).

One of my two talks at DrupalCon (the one about article publication) is now available as an mp3; there was no video, though video probably isn’t terribly necessary for this one. The audio, and some others, is available here.

I’d call this Day 4, because to me it is, but DrupalCon was only really 3 days. The day has been quite relaxed; many folks have left, and many of the ones that are around are beyond my ability to find them. I think they’re doing various things at Moosecamp/Northern Voices which is a blogging conference/hacking get together, but I’m not sure what rooms things are going on in. I’ve gotten to see a couple of people here and there, at least, and I’m typing up these blog entries in relative silence sitting next to hunmonk who is very absorbed doing some kind of actual work.

The morning began with a very sudden alarm at 6:30, which was turned off in that very short span of time in which I was awake. Actual wakefulness didn’t occur until almost 9. I rushed through the morning preparation process and made it down to the con before my session was to start. (I didn’t actually oversleep; I had nothing scheduled for the 8:30 slot).

For the ten o’clock session, Adrian, John Van Dyke, JonBob and I had pencilled — or rather sharpied — in an ad hoc Views/CCK session, designed around the idea of getting community ideas to fix a few issues, ensure the direction we’re going is the right one, and to get the community excited about where we’re going.

Day two started bright and early, and included the phenomenon that I once again made it in on time. This time I braved the cold and a very light sprinkle that didn’t qualify as rain and frankly didn’t even qualify as mist — in fact it really only qualified as a mildly chilly wetness — and headed down to the Tim Horton’s that I’d spotted the night before. It was actually a couple of blocks out of my way, on the other side of where the con met up, but it was not particularly far out of my way.

The first session involved poor Walker getting up and talking about the File API. He got up there and gave a great talk on why what we have is only quasi-functional, what some of the problems are and what needs to be done. It was very nicely done, inspirational, and of course received absolutely nothing resembling volunteers to actually help him do it. Walker is basically the File API Guy, even though it’s pretty clear he doesn’t actually want to be. It’s not a thankless task — people will thank him a lot — but I don’t think it’s going to be a particularly rewarding task.