Hmmm. Had one of our employees check when the CVS application and module review functionality would be restored to the new Drupal.org site, no response. The "webmasters" have acknowledged the issue and marked it as critical 

Oy -- our luck. We wanted to release the module that's making this post happen, but with our luck the new Drupal site "redesign" accidentally shut off the new CVS/Module application facility. 

I am primarily a software engineer. I've been up and down the programmer latter. Everything from programmer to senior programmer analyst, senior software engineer. Also done the analysyt latter all the way to senior systems's analyst, project manager, blah, blah, blah.

What I'm not is a graphic's designer. I'm usually the person is arguing for function over form. My experience is function first, then worry about how it looks.

Anyway. Drupal org had an announcement they were re-designing the their site. I didn't read it real carefully. For some reason I got the impression the site was simply going to be re-themed (form over function). Still not sure what the intention was. Either way, a couple of observations:

• New site does not render well in Firefox. Looks like they have a min width set really wide. I can't read posts with scrolling back and forth (posts that are one or two lines of text).
• The new forum's functionalilty has changed. You can't edit the posts of comments.
• The CVS application form is missing a facility to upload modules or themes?

A short journal describing the task of writing a Drupal module.

Interesting, tested the hell out of this, yet when I installed on the remote hosting service, yikes during install no less, I got a big nasty runtime error. Actually simple to fix, I had changed the arguments to a couple of methods in an implementation class, but forgot to change the interface definition.

The Drupal Coder module let it pass, the Netbeans php module didn't pick it up either. Oy -- PHP -- Still don't quite like it. Still prefer the Java or C compiler environment to do the basic checking at complile time.

Anyway, what I'm doing is writing this blog entry on my Drupal site, then have this module I wrote automatically post to Tumblr (using Tumblr's great api).

10-19 Exposed the small block of tumblr followers to to a custom template (*.tpl.php) file. This will allow themers to customize the block further.

A standard Public Action website comes installed with the online editor called "FCKeditor".