walkah

Now running Drupal 6 and Views 2

2008-08-11T00:00:00-04:00

I finally "re-launched" my blog last night, after tinkering for a few months. I'm now running (at the time of writing) Drupal 6.3. More interesting, however, is that my site is almost entirely powered now by Views 2.

The biggest visible change is the home page. Inspired in part by Dave Shea's lovely blog, I wanted to make my front page shorter. So now, I'm displaying the latest full post, with 9 previous titles only. This is all done with views (using the awesome new "attachment" display type).

The other interesting bit is that I'm using the latest version of twitter module so that the "twitter" block on the right is actually views2 powered as well (and gets cached).

I'm sure I'll keep tweaking, but I dig it. How about you?

Dear Drupal 6, Be My Valentine?

2008-02-14T00:00:00-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I case you hadn't heard, Drupal 6.0 has finally been released! It's been just over a year since our last major release and, while it feels sort of like an eternity, there is a ton of great stuff in this new release.

I'm really proud to have helped contribute OpenID support (relying party) to this release - the first step in a larger plan to put (keep?) Drupal at the front of the digital identity curve. Those interested in hearing more, check out my OpenID session at DrupalCon.

There's a ton of other great new stuff in 6: Update module (if you haven't used update status in Drupal 5 - you should), revamped i18n support, and Drag 'n' Drop everywhere (Nate, you're a rockstar)!

Drupal, be mine. :-*