created on 周四, 2007-11-08 14:17

Halloween last, RCS Lead Drupalist Francis rousted up the local Drupal community for a successful de-bug fest. The momentum rolls on here with the newly-anointed "Drupal Day Thursdays." After a mighty Bar-b-q feast with our neighbors, we turned off client work and switched to community work.

Digression: Of course, this (shocking!) behaviour benefits our clients tremendously in the long run since the work is contributed back - in the case of a custom module, contributing back means the client's code will continually supported, maintained, and possibly improved.

However, educating client about the value of investing in the time to properly contribute back can be challenging at first - until *finally* they "get it." Contributing code is such a critical part of growing the quality and utility of Drupal that it cant just put aside just cause the client wants to save a few bucks. Is it possible to spread the cost of developing a module over a few clients? Sure. Across companies? Likely. How do you explain to clients why they should pay for more hours now for the long-term benefits later?

Anyhow, Drupal Day! The process is all set since Francis kicked off last week's session with a seminar covering best practices for de-bugging.

Corinn assembled a cool Drupal debug quick start tutorial handout to go along with Francis' presentation. The .pdf covers the basics of De-bugging Drupal: Setting Yourself Up, Contributing, Patches and Installing Tools.

And Drupalist Dale of Vancouver Drupal Group fame, filmed the spiel for your education as well.

So, freshly-briefed with knowledge, the Raincity coders, flanked by Bryghtsters and other pals busted into some patched and tests.

Some important:
http://drupal.org/node/163118
http://drupal.org/node/188246
http://drupal.org/node/182728

Some just useful:
http://drupal.org/node/178564.

Oh and here's some sample code to study ye lubbers:

- '%\bnever\b%' => "ne'er",
+ %\bnever\b%' => "no nay ne'er",

+ '%\bare\b%' => 'be',
+ '%\bDrupalists\b%' => 'Bucaneers',
+ '%\bthere\b%' => 'thar',
+ '%b\bnot\b%' => 'nay',
+ '%\bdesign\b%' => 'bounty',
+ '%\bonline\b%' => 'on the plank',
+ '/and\b/' => "an'",
+ '/ious\b/' => "i'us",

// Added to the $shouts array in function avast
+ ", shiver me timbers",
+ ", yo ho, ho",
+ ", ya bilge rat!",
+ ", Get out of me rum!",
+ ", feed the fishes",
+ ", me Jolly Roger",
+ ", Ya horn swogglin' scurvy cur!",
+ ", Ya swabbie!",
+ ", All Hands Hoay!",
+ ", Avast me hearties!",
+ ", Dance the Hempen Jig",
+ ", Hornswaggle",
+ ", Ya lily livered swabbie!",

For my wee contribution to Drupalists 'round the world, I captured Boris Mann and Francis Pilon in "the aquarium" to quiz about the aforementioned best practices for both auditing internal code development and interacting with the community of coders in an open source community.

Since the obvious question is: Where is the podcast? Well, I'll get right to the editing right after I post the next episode with R. Scales talking about China - gotta get it published before he gets back!

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