Dojo Lesson #3 -- NodeAPI

Well, it just goes to show, you can't please all the people all the time. I suppose we've also got some potential interest from Russia, India, China, and Japan, and it's not a particularly friendly time for those areas either. Hopefully as this whole group solidifies, we can get other trainers working on the other side of the world. ;)

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My two cents:

I think group dynamics would be best suited by a drilling down approach, so I would go with the nodeapi option.

Just as the forms api rocked the very first session with some drilling down (and the success of the group shows that didn't hurt none), nicely balanced with the higher level of the last lesson, to "rock on" with the nodeapi will open all our eyes, even if we don't catch everything the first time around.

After all, many of us will have to go through everything a couple of times, and work with a concrete example, in order to "get" what has been covered up till now.

Then, the fourth lesson, I would dedicate to Contrib Modules mashups, which we haven't dedicated much time to even though requests for this figure prominently in the "Introductions" and "Dojo Projects" threads.

Then the fifth could be another drilling down of some kind, and then the sixth could be a "round up and review" merged with the "Drupal Overview" option.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

I am definitely interested in learning about using CVS and NodeAPI. Maybe for the CVS, you can specify the client you will be using. That way if folks use a different client they can either skip that part or watch it and extrapolate to how they might use their own CVS client to do the same thing.

I agree with victorkane that the FormAPI coverage was helpful and I was happy to see some CCK too. Showing a couple of examples was a great way to show developers how to get started.

Thanks,

Robin
www.rufdesigns.com

I am very interested in NodeAPI, also the new node access hooks in 5.x. Some intro/examples on module mash up is also very interesting. I don't see myself starting a project or commiting patches soon (for weeks to come), so CVS class seems a bit too early for me....

As for drupal overview, since we have talked about security, can we cover some of the performance issue? I heard some if not many people say 'drupal is slow, resource-hungary', is it really true or somewhat valid? Two modules are often mentioned in this regard, Search and Locale. Is it true that putting translations into database may not a good idea and making non-English drupal sites really slow? Along this line, I'd like to see some intro on drupal cache mechanism in future lessons. Also, is there any guidline on how to write efficient/fast code, any notoriously-known slow code, php or mysql queries, to avoid (this is more like a general mysql tutorial?).

I won't be able to make it to today's class, looking forward to the video and wikipage (thanks very much for Victor's efforts putting first 2 lessons notes together, much appreciated!)