The Drupal Pony Deficit

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Greg Knaddison is working on a list of statistics to track the health of the Drupal community. One of the stats mentioned was "Number of Ponies Eaton Owes Dries for Core Commits."

For the record, I am currently four ponies in the hole. Three of these ponies were accumulated during the early FormAPI 3 development and testing process. The fourth was lost to Dries during a secret high-stakes game of poker that resulted in the repositioning of the Primary Links menu in Drupal 6's standard page.tpl.php file.

This blog post will be updated in the future as more pony-debt is accumulated.

A Pony?

Submitted by Nicholas Thompson (not verified) on October 19, 2007 - 3:06am.

I assume you're neither referring to owing Dries a horse-like animal or to the [[http://www.aldertons.com/money.htm|old English cockney rhyming slang]] for £25...

Continuing deficit . . .

Submitted by oadaeh (not verified) on October 19, 2007 - 9:20am.

I noticed that rather than mentioning your attempt to pay your debt, you resign yourself to the fact that it's only going to get worse. :^)

Google Maps?

Submitted by Kevin Millecam (not verified) on October 19, 2007 - 11:42am.

Hey Jeff,

Sorry to hijack this thread but didn't you post a cool example of how you integrated Google Maps into one of your project sites?

I've been browsing/searching pulling my hair out for an hour looking for it but, alas, no dice.

Thanks,
Kevin

Found it ...

Submitted by Kevin Millecam (not verified) on October 19, 2007 - 10:38pm.

It was a post by Serbinski. Sorry for the mixup. http://tedserbinski.com/2007/06/13/location-data-drupal

Kevin

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