Tag: drupal

I seem to have gotten myself involved in a Drupal Multimedia Panel with Nate Huag James Walkah , and Aaron Winborn. All of whom have contributed greatly to multimedia handling in Drupal.

I have a client whose sysadmin is adamant about using Lighttpd as a webserver, whose site also uses imagecache. There are some major differences in Lighttpd's rewrite system compared to Apache's rewrite system. The difference that is most important is the lack of the file exists check provided by the -f flag to apache's rewrite conditions.

Crell published some interesting benchmarks in 'Benchmarking magic'. He mentions the overhead of loading and parsing in PHP being a big bottle neck in the comments.

I'm not a big fan of OO development. I think the OO approach is poor for readability and code comprehension. However, it does make for great black boxes. I really appreciate OO for encapsulating executable code.

I really dislike working with MIME types, but they're a fact of life. The MIME type system does a great job of serving of its original purpose of describing data for transfer between different systems and associating data to applications that are capable of displaying the data.

I've recently been working on imagecache 2.x... It's not the original update I planned with the full transformer conversion, but a major rewrite none the less. ImageCache 2.x is currently feature complete and ready for testing.

I've been playing with DDL abstraction for Drupal. My current idea is to mimic the SQL-92 syntactical structure as an array. I'm working on the assumption that the generic SQL-92 clause ordering is consistent it is only the clauses themselves that need to be translated. I am going to assume that we use mysql datatypes by default so the values in the data definition array will be familar to mysql users.

A while back I had a client who needed to do a short run geocoding job, just a couple hundred address from an excel sheet. I could not find a free short run geocoding service, so I wrote a geocoder module

There are some days I really get excited about Drupal. I got really excited the other day when Dries sent an email to the dev list, basically saying mysql 3.23 support will be dropped and we can start using foreign keys.

DrupalCamp NYC is coming up on January 20