Nodes
* Lots of interest and energy
* Tugging the ‘node’ thread unravels the Drupal sweater
* Requires problem-solving and brainstorming
* That’s why we’re here.

Why?
* Nodes rocks! Why change?
* This WEEK, 6 years ago, nodes went into core. Drupal 3.
* Very extensible, but reaching the limits

Building
* Free-for-all approach
* DB/Structure mismatch (sometimes necessary)
* Collisions (vid, pid, bid)

Rendering
* Some improvements in 5
* Only two modes -- teaser, full
* Only HTML

Extending
* Node hooks
* Nodeapi to extend nodes
* CCK via fields, widgets, etc

Pitfalls
* Shufling the chairs
* Performance
* Conversion

Singing and Dancing