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I've head a lot of FUD regarding Windows 8 and the Metro UI. It seems people are primarily frustrated by the removal of the old start menu and the promotion of the new MetroUI as the primary interface on the desktop.

At long last I've upgraded to D7. My old D5 site had been the victim of a lot of my module and core development. The biggest road bump in the entire process was moving all my old imagefield to the field api. The stock upgrade path was completely kaput.

Huzzah.

I've recently taken a deep dive into multilingual site building. The site I'm working with is a simple brochure site, http://mezzaninetulum.com/. The site uses content translate, and the i18n module to help with menu and path translation.

The setup was fairly straight forward to get the node translation in place. When I picked up the work on the site there were a few issues with multilingual menus and path. The issue that we identified with the menus was different language detection rules for administration and content and was a quick fix.

Looking at the statistics now available on drupal.org. I maintain 5 modules in the top 20 list and excluding my core contributions code I have written is deployed on almost 1/2 of all drupal sites participating in the statistics collection. Some how that makes me feel both good and bad... I wish I had a benefactor to let me work on my Drupal specific projects without having to focus on client specific implementations... *wink* *wink*

Apparently I don't pay enough attention to the W3C, but who does. :)

So I've discovered the basis spec for all the HTML 5 progress events.
The events are great a quick look at the Event definitions reveal we get 5 new cool events loadstart, progress, error, abort, and load.

I've been working on the ImageField update for D6 today,
normally when I'm working on updates I research current
developments in the project's domain.

A little bit of googling lead me to one of the questions
that always seems to pop up in my head...

Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters?

I got to seriously thinking about it. From the browser
developer's stand point the problem isn't entirely a
simple one. It's a question of when and how to display

I've been migrating a few personal development sites to Media Temple's Grid Service. I normally use `bzr` to manage my websites through development and roll out. Media Temple is nice enough to provide cvs, svn, and git, but no bzr. If you ask about getting bzr from their support team they'll probably try to upsell you to a dv with some perfunctory statement about compiled apps and root access....

Install ImageAPI before upgrading to ImageCache 2.x!!

I'm finally comfortable enough with my Image* namespace to have official releases of the 2.x series of ImageField and ImageCache + ImageAPI...

I'd like to extend thanks to everyone who has filed issues and submitted patches, especially Drewish and Quicksketch.

Now that my 2.x's are out I can start on the 6.x ports. ImageAPI already has a working port in HEAD, but needs some bug fixes ported from 5.x-1.x. There is a patch for ImageCache pending in it's queue and it should be a trivial port.

Writing simpletests for imagecache_create_url and file_create_url today, I had to change a few of Drupal's persistent variables, namely clean_url and file_downloads. I was kind of frustrated by the need to save the old values, set the values I needed for the test case, run the test, then restore the old variables.

I have a love hate relationship with microformats. The apostles who think they're the end all be all of the semantic web drive me insane. 'Semantic Web' aside, microformats are a powerful approache to reusable design. Consistent markup with the appropriate JS or CSS can make for great reusable UI widgets.