Category: upgrade

A Rant : Why I hate Drupal’s Documentation

I hate Drupal’s documentation. There I said it. Go ahead and flame me. I don’t care. It’s the truth. I recently came up against this lack of documentation issue when I decided to use JQuery UI Accordion on my comments.

I found the documentation for comments in multiple places, but nothing really spelled out how everything worked, not even my wonderful assortment of Packt Publishing Books. I finally ended up opening the Comments module folder and reading the comment.tpl.php file. The example code got me on the right track quicker than reading the API and theming documentation had. And I soon had my output rendering properly except for one, pesky little thing.

There was a seemingly random cid”> somewhere in either my template or the core that I couldn’t

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Confessions of a Yarnaholic

By Me

Edited and Commented by kcknits (aka My True Self)

Hello, I am a yarnaholic. Fiber of all types invades my home; its siren call renders me powerless. Strike this sentence! This is not an invasion. It is a willing collusion resulting from the symbiotic relationship between man and sheep. I am an equal opportunity yarnaholic–acrylic has as much of a chance with me as cashmere. Equal opportunity my foot. Cashmere and bison are expensive. I’ve even bought fun fur because it was well…”fun”. The swatch looked cute, but the finished scarf must never see the light of day. Remnants–those innocuous little half, quarter, and eighth balls–have sentimental value and must be pried from my dead fingers. The acrylic may be used for tying up plants, but touch my

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