Panels 1.1 released for Drupal 4.7.x and Drupal 5.x
Posted by Merlin on Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:02 pm.Boy, I've really let poor Panels slide, too. Many of its major problems are at least mitigated now, particularly in the access control area. And this one will work with update status module.
Download Panels 5.x-1.1 -- Release notes
Download Panels 4.7.x-1.1 -- Release notes
What if FAPI were OO?
Posted by Merlin on Thu Mar 8, 2007 3:20 am.I've long been of the belief that Drupal's love/hate relationship with Object Oriented programming is kind of an odd situation. Most of the time it's not really a problem, but sometimes we come so close to using OO methodology that it seems like a waste that we're not simply OO. One of the places that really shows up is the Forms API.
The design of the Forms API is exceedingly OO; but we're not using OO at all. I spent a little time thinking about it, and I knocked off an idea of what the current Forms API might look like if it were OO.
A response to "4 problems with Drupal"
Posted by Merlin on Fri Mar 2, 2007 12:10 am."Jesse", a blogger who apparently has just one article and either wants to build a reputation for a new venture or simply wants to be anonymous (hard to say which) posted a fairly long article on his site called 4 problems with Drupal.
I read this article, and I started out a little annoyed. It makes some false or at least misleading assertions. I immediately commented on one obvious one, and then as I thought about it, I felt a need to address the entirety of his arguments, because they are, in all, flawed.
