The Hunt for Chartreuse October

No, dear readers, this isn’t a tale of a sunken initiative with a payload that threatens the rest of core, though darn, that would’ve been good! This is a tale that I hope will entertain those already moist in Drupal droplets, while informing the dry newbies among us.

It is a megillah of mishigas[1] seemingly immune to the eroding currents of entropy. It begins on a cold November day, with yours truly staring at the home page of a mature Drupal site belonging to a newly acquired client. And there it was, by all appearances innocuous, except that it stared out at me from the center of the page, like a hibiscus in a field of Dusty Miller.

OCTOBER

It was this errant text I needed to exile from the page. You know the backstory: some other developer created the site and, for whatever reason, was no longer contactable. So it was up to me to discover the provenance of the chartreuse OCTOBER.

J. Ayen Green

J. Ayen Green authored Drupal 6 Content Administration, Drupal 6 Attachment Views, and Drupal 7 Views Recipes. He has been a developer long enough to be curmudgeonly. A writer of sorts, a poet of metered sorts, and a rascal of all sorts, Green enjoys nature, critters, kayaking, ethnic food, the arts, other cultures, horses and Hog. Track him down @accidentalcoder or theaccidentalcoder.com