Today I finally got around to testing out the new field suggestions in Drupal 7. If you’re not familiar with the standard suggestions in short you can either use field templates or override theme_field using a naming convention not unlike we do with preprocess functions. What struck me as kind of odd was the lack suggestions for field types—maybe there’s a very good reason for this such as performance, I don’t know, but I thought it might be interesting to see if I could use them, if I wanted to.
In the next couple of days I will again be doing iterative releases of an offline version of the Drupal Handbook. A long time ago I was creating them for Drupal 4.xx and 5.xx. Suddenly there was fierce competition from those close to Drupal.org. So I thought that eventually offline versions would be the norm. Unfortunately two things happened. First Drupal.org started a project where they traded print HTML pages of the handbook for OPML. They never quite got to the point of automating the process of converting OPML to XML and then to a format that supports the easy creation of compressed HTML files. Printer-friendly pages are the basis for creating good windows help files. Later on down the road all the sites that suddenly were producing offline documentation faded into the ether. Drupal.org never adopted any server routines for creation of any type of offline docs either.
In all our recent excitement, I have neglected to introduce the two newest members of the TopNotchThemes family!
Stacy WrayStacy joined us a few months ago to provide some much needed assistance with themer-herding, customer support, bookkeeping, and generally supporting our team. She’s the friendly face you’ll talk to first if you have any questions about our themes. Stacy is also involved with the rebirth of the Drupal Dojo/Kata, and has been upping her Drupal nerd cred on a daily basis.
Sheena Donnelly