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Kayaking the Swift River Falls 20 Oct 2010 | 03:33 am
The Swift River in New Hampshire flows eastward along the beautiful Kancamagus Highway. There are three commonly paddled sections known as the Upper Upper Swift, the Upper Swift, and the Lower Swift. ...
Field API: Get mentored and help out! 29 Apr 2009 | 07:43 am
The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. Field API became part of Drupal 7 February, 2009, but there is stil...
Field API: What would you like to know? 28 Apr 2009 | 07:00 am
The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. The Field API team has written fairly thorough API documentation bu...
The DX Files: A voice from the field 26 Apr 2009 | 07:12 am
This is part five of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. Today I am simply posting, verbatim, a message that a potential new Drupal developer sent me. The point here is jus...
Fields in Core code sprint, Dec 15-19 10 Dec 2008 | 05:35 am
Following on the Data Architecture Design Sprint during a cold and snowy Chicago week in February, two Drupalcon presentations, a lot of writing, and even more debating, I am really looking forward to...
The DX Files: Static caching in Drupal 6 Nov 2008 | 07:56 am
This is part four of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. I started this series with fairly simplistic suggestions. They proved not very popular and some of them I agree wer...
Drupal and Dries make the MIT Technology Review 35 6 Sep 2008 | 03:00 am
Both Drupal and Dries Buytaert have received many honors recently. As an MIT alum (6-3 '92), however, I'm particularly pleased to see both of them in the TR35: Technology Review's annual list of leadi...
The DX Files: Abandon Anonymous Arrays of Attributes 13 Aug 2008 | 04:07 am
This is part three of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. This time, I’m suggesting changing some of Drupal’s most basic data structures and APIs by replacing anonymous arr...
Tainted Bugs (or, Automatically detecting XSS security holes) 17 Jul 2008 | 12:45 am
With apologies to Gloria Jones and a variety of others... Sometimes I feel there has to be a way To improve securi-tay To automatically prevent attacks The bugs we fix seem not to help one bit To...
The DX Files: Defined constants as API arguments 3 Jul 2008 | 05:50 am
This is part two of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. Many Drupal APIs accept a boolean argument (TRUE or FALSE) to determine some behavior. I believe that practice shou...
