Comments are not nodes mostly because nodes are perceived as heavier. However, hook_comments are more or less equal to hook_nodeapi so this is just a matter of actually registering which nodeapi implementation operates on what call. The seed for this is the module hooks registry. Second, currently we load all comments for one page in one query. This will be a possibility for most cases once we have join/foreign key info in schema API.

New York between Jan 13-Feb 2. Chicago Feb 2-17. Boston Feb 17-Mar 16. Washington DC Mar 16-Apr 5.

I really do not know what to say. The Drupal community throwed together 680 USD in 1.5 days to get a 12 year old Drupal ninja to his first DrupalCon. Thanks. You all rock. See you all (including Dmitri, apparently) in Boston!

In case you do not know who he is, check his Drupal.org profile and here is a quote from Eric Reid's blog:

...Bay Area Drupal Camp this weekend. All types of people from all backgrounds. And then there was Dmitri.

Dmitri Gaskin is a key member of the Drupal Community... a commiter... an expert... a 'Ninja' if you will... Dmitri gave several talks here this weekend, and people listened to him with interest. He knows what he's talking about. He's only developed on Drupal for a relatively short time, but he gets it, bigtime. Dmitri's definitely The Man.

Oh, and by the way... Dmitri is 12 years old.

First node in 2007 was 106137 and the last was 205224 which makes it 99086 nodes in 2007. However the first 100 000 nodes took five years, the next 100 000 just a bit more than a year... and the third surely will be less than a year. Also, we have 222442 users, a year ago we had 100651 which means 2007 added 121791 users to Drupal.org... and we have a Drupal 6 release soon which will attract even more users and nodes. No wonder the 2008 spring DrupalCon needs to be held at a convention centre.

"Effective use of OO tools requires traversing a long learning curve." -- Mitch Kramer in an article from 1993.

"Object-oriented programming (OOP) is becoming the norm within software development, but is associated with a steeper learning curve than the conventional structured approach." http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=27552

"Really "getting" object-oriented programming will take a bit longer" http://lists.apple.com/archives/Student-dev/2004/Oct/msg00053.html

NetBeans 6.0 supports PHP. We all know a Java IDE which turned out to be a quite useable PHP IDE -- Eclipse. It seems all the usual IDE stuff are supported, even xdebug. I have not yet tried this one out, but if someone else does, please post here -- I wonder whether it can provide Drupal specific tooltips.

Still some people think that Acquia is the first rider of Apocalypse or something, that they bought Dries' soul for $7M. No shareholder gets involved in day-to-day operations, they are only interested in the big picture and there, they only care about that Drupal, as a project, is succesful, well loved, secure etc. Best way to keep it so? Simple, let Dries to do what he always did, what's more, even pay him for it so he does not just have the possibility but he can actually do it. Nothing will change, just Dries gets more time to lead us further on -- and this is what Acquia pays him for.

For quite a long time I have tried to find an explanation for why I am doing all the core work and for some time I had a suspicion, and now I am fairly confident I know. This article helps understanding the Psychology of Programming and it mentions the reason: flow. Let's see what makes me reach flow by checking most of the items Wikipedia lists.

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