David Powell

Anyone whose new to writing their own modules for Drupal (like me) might sooner or later (probably sooner) come across Drupal's very nifty theming system. Tonight I wanted to spit out a table of results from a dynamically generated query. After a quick search I found drupal's theme_table function and it looked perfect, except for one problem. The examples of how to use the theme_table() function all assumed you knew what your tables headers would be.

Here are the slides ( 90.79 Kb ) of a workshop that I facilitated at the Moreton Bay Youth Workers Retreat at Clear Mountain Resort (wow, what a view) on Thursday August 4. Thanks to everyone that came along and I hope you all found it useful.

A summary of the discussions at the workshop and links to some interesting articles/resources are posted below...

I doubt there is anyone working in community services in Queensland, maybe even Australia, who could spend 5 minutes in a room with two other colleagues and not hear the phrase “it's all about relationships”. Maybe not that exact phrase, but something pretty close to it. My point is that this idea – i.e. that the foundation of social and community services work is relationships – is ubiquitous.

So I'm about to do severe damage to my future career prospects¹ in this sector by stating that we need to stop saying “it's all about relationships.” It's not that I disagree, it's just that I'm not sure what people mean any more by “relationship”, let alone who it is they think it's important to have one with. I think we need to start being a little more specific about these things because there's a risk that 'relationship' is coming to mean so many things it's actually losing meaning. There, I said it. Career One, here I come.