I created a Drupal 6 module, and in it I implemented hook_block(). I set up the block to appear in a certain region, and hook_block acted like a blockhead...

Last night I almost took the plunge into Linux...almost.

I was working on a new Drupal 6 module, and at least until things became more complex, I was writing it in a top-down manner: the .info file, the .install file, and was working on defining permissions via hook_perm().

It should have been very easy...

Some would say that I'm crazy using Drupal 7 Alpha 5 to relaunch my blog, but I needed D7 up and running for the new book anyway...

If you're a Drupal developer, you're aware, no doubt, of the coming of D7. One of the exciting changes in D7 is that CCK has been brought into core...somewhat. The changes provide opportunities to do things that were much more difficult to do before, but also, might create a black hole of challenges in the migration space between D6 and D7.

I must say that, at times, I think the aggravation of using an IMAP mailbox outweighs the benefits. The latest issue I faced was attempting to send two different messages&emdash;each using a different IMAP account. After telling me the message was sent, Thunderbird popped up a dialog for each message that said, "There was an error copying the message to the Sent folder - Retry?" Several retries later, I was no closer to having a copy of my outgoing messages saved.