Almost in Chicago

No, I'm not <a href="http://www.palantir.net/blog/august-and-everything-after">joining Palantir</a> (well hopefully for dinner), but I'll be attending the Taxonomy Sprint organised by the Encyclopedia of Life at the Field Museum in Chicago this week.

Taxonomy was the reason I installed Drupal 4.5.x back in 2005 (I wanted to categorise articles by author AND subject and none of the previous 4-5 CMSes I'd used could do it, oh those heady days), and while it's a very powerful system, it hasn't received a great deal of love the past 4-5 years. So when you're running up to 2 million terms through it, it starts to creak.

I'm still trying to get caught up after Drupalcon Szeged and sitting in a terminal in Minneapolis in between flights, so my laundry list of things I'd like to change about the taxonomy module won't make it into this post, but I'll try to post updates throughout the week.