Compusure Drupal development

Hats off to Earl Miles and the rest the views developers they have done a tremendous job with Views 2. While the interface is entirely different from that of Views 1, it is so much more intuitive that within a few minutes I had quickly forgotten my bewildered "oh no, I know nothing" look :)
From reading all of the docs and quietly watching development commits, I knew Views 2 was going to eliminate a lot of the Views 1 helper modules and open up a whole new world of awesomeness. While I haven't seen many blog posts detailing just which functionality/modules have been replaced with Views 2, I wanted to kickstart things with my own discovery as I played around with Views 2 quite thoroughly this afternoon.
With Views 1, to build an alpha pager you would use the views alpha pager module in conjunction with your view. But what about Views 2?

Today I had some time to arrange a ticket and an hotel for the DrupalCon Szegged 2008, pftttt! Just in time. Then I had some time to nerd around so I created a Y! pipe for All Things DrupalConSzeged2008 related (assuming that that would be the tag?). Feel free to run, edit, copy, change my pipe over at pipes, Yahoo! ID !required! You can see geolocated Flickr images, tweets, delicious links and much more in many formats (for example an RSS feed. feedback in the comments please, I'll update the pipe to reflect your thoughts.
And yes, that is the reason I do not program, even the pipe! looks bad and is not that smart build

There has been some discussion on the mailing list previous week concerning lack of reviewers for drupal patches. One of the reasons that came up was the fact it takes some time to set up a new clean environment to test a new patch. Given: download latest head (or better checkout from cvs), create or empty (existing) database, setting permissions, apply patch, add content, test by hand, run all simpletests, do some benchmarks (with every possible caching in mind) .. it does involve some point and click.
While doing some benchmark tests this week for the DBTNG patch (congrats Crell!), I probably repeated this complete set of tasks a couple of times - however, I didn't mind, it's for the benefit of everyone: Drupal, patch writers and also myself. Wow, that really sounds terribly squishy right ?read more

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Personally, I think it’s just spreading FUD; but Information Week is reporting that “Just over a week ago, security researcher Mike Perry presented information at the DEFCON security conference about a vulnerability that affects many SSL-secured Web sites, including Amazonread more