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Or how to tinker with the menu on the fly.

Writing an XMLRPC service for Drupal is very simple and offers limitless possibilities for everything from app development and content sharing to remote user authentication.

OR fun with drupal_render().

Over the weekend my blog was downgraded from the Planet Drupal feed to Drupal Talk. I've been informed that Planet Drupal is not the venue for controversy, and since my last post definitely generated some it was decided I should be moved to Talk. I can definitely see the rationale behind this and won't be arguing the point.

In light of the core developer meltdown the article provoked, I would like to take a minute to clarify my position on a few things.

My quasi-annual venting of spleen on core changes in the latest release of Drupal.

Fun with module conversion in Drupal 7.

As necessary evils go, hand-coding php for Views block arguments has always been one of my least favorites. It's a tedious PITA and replicating it across unrelated sites (think related content blocks) has always sucked. Thanks to Views default argument from Context and techniques demonstrated by Seth Cohn we don't have to do this anymore.

Greetings from the Moscone Center in sunny downtown San Francisco! Despite a fairly festive evening last night (note to self: drinking with Japanese college students is not for the faint of heart) I've managed to make it to early enrollment.

Fun with "#disabled' => TRUE

OR how a little known (but incredibly common) coding error drove one module maintainer to throw in the towel.