Web Development

If you sit down with another member of the Drupal community in a cafe to hash out something, then you are with... a friend (hardly, you might barely know each other)? a colleague (doesnt that mean that we are working at the same place)? associate? I am afraid that an open source community being such a new thing it needs a new word. Fellow Drupaler -- sure, try to say that to the average Joe and watch the glassy eyes :) And how do you explain to the average border guard that you are traveling to a code sprint...? A GSoC mentor summit?

I am willing to give 10 US dollars to the first ten people each who can point out a real webhost (you know, appearing in Google and relevant forums for some time -- nominating the webhost that you run is not nice!) which

Just add

zend_extension="/usr/local/php/modules/xdebug.so"
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = on
to php.ini and then add this line to drupal_web_test_case curlExec just after $url = $curl_options[CURLOPT_URL] = $url . (strpos($url, '?') === FALSE ? '?' : '&') . 'XDEBUG_PROFILE=1'; is the trigger for the profiler.

Drupal modules and themes usage statistics! YAY! Kudos go to dww and drewish.

Opera inspected a few million webpages. 4.13% passed validation, 70% had a DIV tag, 80% had a TABLE tag. A healthy number of those divs are not for positioning either, while border made it to the top ten CSS properties, margin and padding are the 11th and 12th, position is the 17th. More pages had JS than DIVs -- 74.58%. While Flash is used on the third of pages, XMLHttpRequest is used a magnitude less, 3.2% of pages.

After reading Merlin's thoughts on how we need to remove menu_rebuild and replace it with a more straightforward approach, reading the hook_blocks issue, discussing page rendering with pwolanin, pondering on my own thoughts for pipes, liking the canvas-PAC concept that Crell described, here is something big.
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To honor webchick's efforts, I resume work.

I am taking a break from the core issue queue until http://drupal.org/node/125315 is committed.

If you are a restaurant owner you do not begin wtih serving a huge variation of food so that the guest does not need to work the menu. That'd be rather wasteful. This rather simple truth somewhere got lost and now we all pay for it. PHP's magic_quotes and register_global features did a lot to help... the "PHP is insecure" articles. A healthy number of MySQLisms made it harder to develop clean apps and now these all do not run when strict mode is on. I wonder whether node_load falls in this category...

I am currently backing up the media server of NowPublic.com. We are talking millions of files, and terabytes of data. This a rather interesting task. If you try to "tar" the files together and then copy, that wont lead to anything good, just tarring up is days. Not to mention total lack of feedback... strace -p pid where pid is of the tarring process does not count as feedback in my books. Starting rsync to copy to somewhere else eats all physical RAM, then the swap then crashes and this was just the building the file list part (and yes I tried both latest 2.x and 3.x versions).