This document summarizes a presentation about joke modules in Drupal and what they reveal about the CMS. It discusses modules like "Bad Judgement" and "Eldorado Superfly" that were made for humor rather than functionality. While some criticized such modules, the presentation argues they indicate creativity, build community, and show that humor has value in software. It concludes by noting joke modules can critique Drupal and that humor is healthy for developers.

1. Dark side of the Drupal

2. Inspired by
Matt Butcher, Chicago March 7-10 2011
Bad Judgement, Eldorado Superfly, Khaaaaaaan: Joke
modules and what they tell us about Drupal

3. About me: Drupal developer since 2010
Artem Sylchuk

4. We do talk about complicated codez...

5. Why so serious?

6. Universal Answers
● Check permissions
● Flush Caches
● Use regular expressions
● Do it via JS
● Overflow:hidden
● Do a barrel roll
● ??????
● Profit

7. Fail

8. Make fun, not hack

9. Novelty modules
● Bad judgement
● THE
● Who is your daddy?
● Eldorado Superfly
● Khaaaaaaan
● WP Theme
● Module (and theme) Roulette
● ALL THE THINGS
● Feature creep
● Zombie Killer
● Dialectic

10. Drupal Wrappers

11. Britain

12. Unicorns

13. Narcissist

14. Inception

15. Misery

16. /dev/null
This project provides a dev/null storage engine, because dev/null is fast as hell
● dev/null cache backend
● dev/null field storage backend

17. Nyan cat progress bar

18. Are these modules bad?
1. Critique
2. Community enjoyment
3. Indicator of creativity
4. Humor is Healthy
5. Builds community
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde

19. Conclusions
Knockin on Dries' Door
Angie take this patch from me
I can't stand it anymore
It's been rerolled every day
Feels like at least a month or more
Now they want an interdiff
I don't know what that is for
What's up with this learning cliff
I can't stand it anymore
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Now it's not the normal way
But it improves Drupal's speed
Don't care what the others say
It's a patch we really need
Commit-commit-commit-commit all the things
Commit-commit-commit-commit all the things
Commit-commit-commit-commit all the things
Commit-commit-commit-commit all the things
Got to put this issue to bed
I don't have to look at it anymore
'needs tests' tag almost left me dead
What do you mean I just broke core?
revert-revert-vert-vert all the things
revert-revert-vert-vert all the things
revert-revert-vert-vert all the things
revert-revert-vert-vert all the things
"YOU JUST BETTER START TESTIN ALL THOSE PATCHES
LOCALLY BEFORE YOU STICK THEM ON THE TESTBOT, JACK ...
'CAUSE IT'S JUST YOU AGAINST YOUR LAPTOP, THE CODE,
GIT, AND THE COMMITTERS, MAN, AND IT WOULD BE NOTHING
BUT LUCK IF YOU GET OUT OF THAT ISSUE ALIVE"
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door
Knock-knock-knockin' on Dries' door