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It is a good Drupal development best practice to embed each of your views in code instead of storing them in the database. This technique will allow your views code to be managed by your version control system which makes pushing up changes to views from development to staging to live a much cleaner process. Additionally, since the views code is being loaded from disk instead of the the more expensive database you will see a modest performance improvement. All in all a pretty good thing.

Today we're proud to have our showcase case study of Chapter Three's work on Moblin.org posted to the Drupal.org frontpage!

This was one of the more interesting and fun projects we worked on in 2008, thanks in part to our excellent collaborators at Intel, the awesomeness that is Drupal 6, and the close-to-our-hearts use-case of helping an open-source developer community create its home on the web.

Just a little to the left please. Flip it around. Put that on top of this. Call it by a different name. It is the little changes, that seem trivial and small, that often end up being real headaches to make and support our clients in making. Do we really want to try to build capacity with clients by teaching them to adjust #weight in hook_form_alter?

Earlier this week I spent an afternoon setting up and configuring WYSIWYG editing for a client's website. Although at Chapter Three we are big fans of HTML Literacy, we realize that many users would feel more comfortable in a WYSIWYG environment. We did a little brainstorming and came up with some basic recommendations to make TinyMCE work better.