The drop is always movingYou know that saying about standing on the shoulders of giants? Drupal is standing on a huge pile of midgetsAll content management systems suck, Drupal just happens to suck less.Popular open source software is more secure than unpopular open source software, because insecure software becomes unpopular fast. [That doesn't happen for proprietary software.]Drupal makes sandwiches happen.There is a module for that

Let the developer do the work

Submitted by nk on Sun, 2008-09-21 06:30

If you are a restaurant owner you do not begin wtih serving a huge variation of food so that the guest does not need to work the menu. That'd be rather wasteful. This rather simple truth somewhere got lost and now we all pay for it. PHP's magic_quotes and register_global features did a lot to help... the "PHP is insecure" articles. A healthy number of MySQLisms made it harder to develop clean apps and now these all do not run when strict mode is on. I wonder whether node_load falls in this category...

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Explain?
Submitted by wmostrey on Mon, 2008-09-22 07:05.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Isn't node_load a great way to find out what "options" a node has, without have to check what each separate module adds to the node object? Should we have to adjust a bunch of SQL statements ourselves each time we install a new module?