A Cajun-Asian View

Instead of doing something sane last night1 I spent a few hours creating and submitting my first patch to a Drupal module. I attempted to follow the Drupal coding standards and taking advantage of the Drupal API, but I'm sure I've made a mistake somewhere. Hopefully, a few other eyes review the patch and point out the problems with it.

And I'm only a few weeks late on getting it out too. Actually, not just diving in that weekend and waiting a bit was probably best as I ended up getting a better idea of how to get around the problem.

1. 1. like sleeping

Seems I got bitten by this bug in the Comment RSS module for Drupal on my anime blog site. Technorati seems to be picking up the comments instead of the actual posts from the site, and I'm sure there's other aggregating systems that are doing the same when trying to automatically find the default RSS feed for the site. Looking in the source code for the blog shows that the Comment RSS feed is linked before the frontpage RSS, causing this issue.

I hope I can get some time to work on a patch for it this weekend.

I've complained in the past that the web-links package wasn't available yet in Drupal 5.1; well, as of February 16, 2007, a web-links module was released for Drupal 5.1. I have just replaced my hand-made version of the Blog Rolls with this one. One of my biggest annoyance about the latest version of Drupal has been relieved! Yay!

Also, I'm testing out the Coolfilter module. Let's see how well it works...

Well, it looks like some more ranting of Drupal is on its way! Truthfully, I really do like Drupal, especially with some of the great work done on the version 5 series. I just have a couple minor issues about how it works in a few matters when I was setting up a prototype site based off of Drupal 5.1.

Seems as though I've hit on a pretty rare issue with Drupal 4.7.6 on my anime weblog: basically, when logging in, the site would give no error but simply return me to the page I was on without logging in. This seems to be a fairly old issue and very difficult to replicate issue if topic on Drupal's forums means anything. There's also this entry in the bug tracking system that's related to this login problem. Fortunately, it seems I've resolved this issue on my install. Rather annoying if you can't login to put in posts and what not. Fortunately, I haven't hit on that issue on Drupal 5.1 on this site, but it seems others have hit it on the newer version.

Ah well, crisis averted. Everything is A-Okay!