While it's a bit late and almost the entire readership of my blog already knows this, last week I gave an interview to Jeff Robbins of Lullabot, for podcast #58. I hadn't been on the Lullabot podcast since the very first one, and that time it was an interview at Vancouver that wasn't quite as comfortable.

Note: Slides from my presentation are posted at the end. If you don't care about the rest but want the slides, skip to that.

I have actually been in Boston since Friday morning, but a low level of burnout has kept me away from blogging for a bit. There has been a LOT going on lately with Views 2 and Panels 2 and the Drupal Association and there's definitely a lot of the whelming in the overwhelming.

This is primarily a bug fix release; quite a few interesting bugs were fixed, mostly having to do with the new panel_views module (I should've let that cook longer but I had promised a beta release by end of 2007).

Get it here.

Nothing smashing and new but this one looks to be a good deal less likely to give random warnings about problems in plugins.inc

Thanks very much to catch and Wim Leers for writing this:

Panels 2 beta ships with two new modules dealing with Views: panels_views and panels_views_legacy.

In alpha versions of Panels 2 (and in Panels 1.x), all views were automatically available as content for panels - and there were a relatively complex set of settings in the "add content" form to add a view (arguments, type, read more link, all that stuff).

At long last I have finally put an end to this alpha business. I think 14 releases of it was really enough. Don't you?

Not surprisingly, I'm a little tired. Here are the release notes.

I've updated the demo site I've been setting up for nodequeue so that you can login as a demo user. This lets you play with the Panels UI and the Nodequeue UI and sort of look behind the scenes to see how a fairly simple site can be set up with these tools. The site isn't anything flashy, and I do need to do a better job (ok, a job) of documenting what I did, but even without it a lot can be divined.

See: http://nodequeue.demo.logrus.com/

Kent Bye did a fantastic visualization of putting together a cheap taxonomy/term page override. It helps to have already created this when looking at it, but it does give an idea, at least, of what's going on.

Click here for full-sized version

Download here: http://drupal.org/node/194291

Finally!

The context system I described in my last post exists.

People are working on some demos and walk-throughs to show people how to utilize this new system. It takes a little bit of stepping through to understand the potential, and I suspect there will be some disappointment at the content that is available; but that's a piece where I can very much encourage people to help.

In Panels, Context is lingo for a wrapper around any significant object. By default, Panels supports 'Node', 'Taxonomy term' (and terms as mentioned above), 'Taxonomy vocabulary', and 'User' as contexts.

These contexts can get into a display in more than one way; right now, there are three ways that a panel page can acquire a context:

It's Sunday, and DrupalCon Barcelona ended yesterday.

It was the biggest DrupalCon ever, boasting a registration list of over 420 people and it seems likely that most all of them attended, and I know at least one person who intended to attend but was mistakenly not registered (and for whatever reason didn't just donate 50 euros and attend. I'm pretty sure they could have accommodated that).