Sculpting Conditionals

At DrupalCon Paris, I attended a grid presentation by Mark Boulton, for designers. I didn’t get it. Recently I read the biography of Steve Jobs. Now I get it. Drupal designers like Mark focus on the art outside. For several issues, this column has focused on the art inside. At the risk of redundancy, let me state that when I talk about Drupl'Art I am talking mostly about the art within.

Aesthetic Minimalist

Like all artists, I navigate my craft through stylistic seas. Most recently, I sailed into an Extreme Minimalist Period: fewer lines of code mattered to me. Eventually, Charlie (chx) politely suggested that, if I insisted on charting that course, to at least comment it better. He was right, I was wrong; and I offer up a heart-felt mea culpa to the developers who followed in my turbulent wake and are now stuck with the flotsam and jetsam.

I am still a Minimalist, but now an aesthetically practical Minimalist; readability and maintainability carry the day. Farewell to saving opcodes!

Doug Green

Doug is a 25-year veteran of software development, inventor of the coder module, and core contributor. He specializes in creating interpretive language, development tools, and complex or high performance software. He believes software is functional art, and infuses that belief in everything he does.