The multiple magics of Drupal search December 24th, 2008
Form API is magical; core Drupal search is a twist on that magic; hooking onto that twist puts your code on yet another level of weird.
User loading and saving in Drupal 5.x June 9th, 2008
Workflows of Drupal’s user load and save functionality: spot the hooks and win a programmatical prize.
Software simple and software facile September 12th, 2007
Assaf writes about, among other things, REST as a simplifier of development against an existing system:
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Interestingly, a corollary to this was brought up at Barcamp Brighton this weekend. During Gareth Rushgrove’s talk about REST and [...]
Drupal logins not working August 29th, 2007
There’s a long (and old) thread about Drupal logins not working. A lot of the problems are to do with weird PHP version changes; some of them are caused by cookie persistence; but the one we’ve had was the result of losing the login box on the front page.
“How can you log in without a [...]
Taking Drupal to pieces April 17th, 2007
Since listening to Garrett Coakley speak at the first Geek Night on the topic of Drupal, I’ve been sniffing round that open-source CMS. He kindly came to speak to us again, and very inspiring it was too. We’re now having a deeper look at it, seeing what it can do, what are its strengths and [...]