Visualizing an application’s entire call stack September 5th, 2007

KentBye, Flickr user, has been playing with GraphViz. He’s used it to turn an XDebug output into a pretty visualization of Drupal’s call stack, or what functions call what functions during a typical Drupal request.

Image submit buttons in Drupal FAPI August 20th, 2007

Drupal 5.x’s FAPI doesn’t handle image buttons terribly well: here’s how to implement it with the #button_type property. And a minor refinement that Victoria and I implemented today at work.

Distributed Drupal development, determined by dedicated Drupaler August 20th, 2007

A recent thread on the Drupal development list (started by me, I confess) led to Larry Garfield publishing his development environment online. It’s interesting to see what problems he’s had to solve (and what problems he hasn’t needed to solve).
Our development is explained on those list postings: I’ll put a diagram and more coherent explanation [...]