Well, if you've ever dug into someone else's code trying to debug a problem, you've no doubt and a moment where you wondered what they were thinking at the time.

My WTF of the week stems from a Drupal module I'm using and how it manipulates some custom SQL.  First, a little background for the non Drupal developers out there.

Quite an interesting view of the future.  I'd love to see some of this technology come to fruition. Some of it already has, take the surface sync of the phones to the table top systems, this is very similar to the Surface technology that Microsoft has been developing.

Enjoy the video, and try to help me determine one thing:  where the hell are the cameras being used for the conversation between the grandmother and her grand-daughters?

I've been working with Drupal in a professional capacity for about seven months now, and I have to say that the biggest hurdle for adoption I am seeing is the inability for Drupal to gracefully deploy from development to staging to production servers.  This is something I've been struggling with for months now, and with my current project being as large as it is, and having multiple developers, all working from different sandboxed environments, as well as multiple staging servers for both in-house and client review, this is becomming a huge down-check on using drupal for further projects.

I just read an interesting article titled "Ranking 37th - Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System" over at the Health Policy and Reform blog of the New England Journal of Medicine.

I read through this article and the one thing that strikes me over and over is the fact that the United States is rated 37th.  37th!  We aren't even in the top 10, we're barely in the top 40.  Yet I hear the rhetoric about how our health care is the best in the world over and over from the politicians and their apologists.

Health care and health insurance is somthing that's been on my mind alot lately.  I'm amazed at the roadblocks that this country has allowed to be erected that prevent average people like me from being able to have affordable health care.

Well, I got my hand forced by my own stupidity.  I had been planning on waiting a few more months before upgrading to the latest stable branch of Drupal (7.x) for my site.  I was hoping that module support would mature in that time.

But then, stupidity struck.  Hard.

I've been learining how to use Drush to manage my various drupal installs.  All was going well.  Very well in fact.  Until I saw that there had been a security update to drupal core.  So I went ahead and updated the site.

It wasn't pretty.

Well, it's finally official.  I'm returning to what I love the most:  Web Development.

After an 18 month adventure in the public-sector working within the civil service as IT support in a medium sized school district, I cannot wait to get started.  I have missed the problem solving, the creativity and the ability to evaluate cutting edge technology on a regular basis. In short, all the things that go along with being a developer in a small firm.