Observe:
An incredibly long standing issue, that keeps popping up, gets a handful of follow-ups, none of which actually address or even mention any of the technical problems that need to be solved.
Instead, all it gets is a bunch of "+1 Subscribe" follow-ups. Whenever I see such a comment, it tells me this:
Steven Wittens Drupal Developer Blog
One of the major things that really bugs me about the web is how poor the average web programmer handles strings. Here we are, changing the way the world works on top of text based protocols and languages like HTTP, MIME, JavaScript and CSS, yet some of the biggest issues that still plague us are cross-site scripting and mangled text due to aggressive filtering, mismatched encodings or overzealous escaping.
I finished designing and building this year's edition of LeuvenSpeelt.be, a site that promotes student theater at my old university. You can read about the background in my previous blog posts.
Various people have prodded me to explain my recent involvement in Drupal, or rather the lack of it. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do so in a way that is constructive and tactful, especially not when it comes to other contributors. Like Soylent Green, Open Source is made of people, and it's these people who are at the basis of a mountain of frustration that has driven me off.
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According to Ohloh, Drupal 6 core now consists of 8% JavaScript. This is quite a lot.
Drupal and JavaScript haven't always seen eye to eye though.
8 tips for the aspiring Drupal developer
Open source is really great. You get to cherry pick from some of the best software out there and build neat stuff with it, fast. Most open source projects will also encourage you to contribute your own work back to the project. Supposedly, so others can benefit from your work.
No so long ago Jeff Robbins unleashed the Drupal Song upon the unsuspecting Drupal masses.
By popular demand, the source tracks for the song were released, and several people have posted what is IMO a brilliant set of remixes. The multi-talented Drupal community surprises again.
Check out these three gems in particular:
Update: a raw video is now available of (almost) the entire session. Thanks to Jon F Hancock for recording it.
Today I did my second session at OSCMS, which was basically a repeat of the jQuery talk I did at DrupalCon Brussels.
You can download a PDF (2.2MB) of the (slightly tweaked) presentation slides.
I did my OSCMS talk Designer eye for the geek guy today. My main plan for this talk was to blast as much basic graphical design concepts into people's heads as possible and sort of teach some of the principles, vocabulary and methods that a lot of designers take for granted.
The response was great as far as I could tell. I also got the inevitable "How do we deal with Internet Explorer?" spin-off discussion in the questions round at the end ;).
