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It was brought to my attention that my previous article needed screenshots. I could edit the previous article, but I don't think most people would see them, so instead, we get this blog post addendum.

Admin page -- this is the top level admin page.
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System settings page -- this page is just the normal system settings page with the fieldsets replaced by tabs.
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Modules page -- significant changes here. Note the links, and that active modules are grouped together for easier administration.
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Irritated pastries? Cranky pastries? No, maybe just stark raving mad pastries? Hm. Well it’s so hard to tell. When the donuts get riled up, they really can cause a ruckus, though.

A ruckus like this one, for example. Technorati pointed this one out for me, and with that title, how could I not click on it?

Hey Elaine, I tried to comment on your post, but for some reason your Wordpress install doesn’t seem to believe that being logged in is actually logged in. So, uh. This is like commenting on your post, since I figure you’re probably actually reading me now that I’m in your blog roll.

One annoying thing about having a million things to do is that no matter which of those million things I’m doing, there’s 999,999 other things that I’m feeling guilty about for not doing. But all of them are important at one level or another. Today I didn’t do some Views debugging that I really meant to do. Instead, after my housemate took his first look at Drupal, all those thoughts and ideas I have about Drupal’s administrative interface came to the surface.

In this article, I want to talk about the whole process of the work I’ve done, what led up to it, the road ahead, why it’s important, and where I hope it will go.

I’ve been “very close” to thinking Views is ready for a 1.0 release for awhile now. Really, too long. And, of course, now I’m even closer. I feel a little bit like I’m living Xeno’s Paradox on this one, where I first must go halfway. And then halfway. And halfway. And half. Half. 1/2. .

Seriously, this weekend’s flurry of Views-related activity really reduced the issue queue significantly. There are still some tricky issues with taxonomy that I have to sort out…that structure really is one heck of a bitch to write queries for, which makes it even more fun to generate queries for. One of the problems I run into with it is that fields and filters may or may not refer to the same taxonomy information. I keep running into bugs when using multiple taxonomies, but fixing them breaks behavior that’s expected when fields refer to the taxonomy you’re filtering on. It’s enough to make me feel insane.

I've decided to try out Markus Petrux's akismet module, and as such I've opened up anonymous commenting. Let's see if it works.