It is no secret that the documentation of the form API is not in great shape. Today Merlin said on IRC that "the design does not lend itself to being well documented" and he is, of course, right. There were proposals during the years to convert everything to object oriented code but IMO that's too much in one fell swoop. I have the idea to use ArrayObject-based objects -- now that #type matters little -- and keep the current functions -- no methods. The properties will become doxygenable so the documentation is right there in the code, reusable by API module, IDEs etc. Here is some sample code.

While relatively few people will come and join the debate over deep coding changes, seemingly everyone knows usability and has an opinion. Moreover, there are usable yardsticks of what makes code good -- is it speedy, easy to understand, explandable? Usability is "soft" science. And then it's front end changes which requires JS/CSS coders and those are more rare than PHP ones. So there are very few cooks trying to make a meal, not even being sure of what while there are a lot of people yelling at them of what to do.

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There is a hardening issue which provides a rare glimpse into the convoluted process a security patch needs to go through. Sack race

while coding is neither easy nor fun.

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I have compiled the comments into a handbook page.

Have I scared you off drupal.org? Have I hurt your feelings? Please comment on this post, hurt me, bring it on, that's what I am getting the last two days anyways and I am quite sick of it so let's get out of it in one batch and then move on.

I have been looking at Komodo for years -- but now I am using it as my primary IDE (for small remote edits, I still use nano). The speed is adequate on Tumbler (a mere 2.5 GHz dual core with 4GB of RAM) and the features are right. The most important thing for me is the per project ability to set which directories to use for autocomplete and calltips. This means that I can hack simulatenously on NowPublic, Drupal core 5, 6 and 7 and still get the right calltips. Very nice! I guess I will be able to get the debugger kicking, too. When I will, I will report back.

Two months ago Dries asked for a queue API in his DC DC keynote. I wrote one immediately after the keynote :) and two months and 131 followups later, it's committed. Most help came from Derek Wright (dww) with his Condor experience and James Gilliland (neclimdul). It was an amazing ride, getting this patch right.

Five years now I am with Drupal. First of all: thanks! Belonging to this community is awesome. I owe Drupal everything -- my job, money and indeed, my whole new life now because it was DrupalCon 2006 that dragged me to Vancouver which I now call home.