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.

We need a Drupaler fulltime for the next 4-8 weeks. Little module, lots of CSS/JS experience. chx1975 gmail com.

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.

http://www.amazon.com/Firebrand-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0671744062/ was the first book I read from Bradley, and it's very good. I dig history very much as you will see as the blog unfolds and this one is about Cassandra of Troy. The author is in an easy position as the factual knowledge from this era is almost nil.

It's fitting to start my book posts with http://www.amazon.com/Enders-Game-Ender-Book-1/dp/0812550706/ref=ed_oe_p because it's the Book for me. When I was a small kid, I was reading the kid section of the local library without much selection. Some years later it dawned on me that I read a very, very good book among those but the title escaped me so I went back to the library, browsing the books (not much change in the selection through the years, thanks god) and managed to find Ender's Game by it's cover.

As some encouraged me, I am going to post about the books I read. And to make it more on-topic, I have written a quickie filter module which changes the Amazon.com URLs as I browse into affiliate links.