I can't speak highly enough of Earl Miles, aka merlinofchaos. Despite the puppet act at DrupalCon, which I'm willing to forgive, ;) this guy is awesome. I have been using views for a long time, and Views in Drupal 4.7 and 5 was just awesome. Then Views2 came out, and while the learning curve was a little steep, it continues to blow my mind.

Today I was trying to make a block view that took an argument (the parent node id). I couldn't quite figure out how to do it, but thanks to advanced help, I quickly learned that "Block displays have no source of arguments at all; they cannot pull arguments from the URL, and often require use of the default argument PHP code in order to get arguments." When I went to check out this "default argument" thing, it went well. Very well, in fact "node ID from URL" was a choice already - I didn't even have to use PHP! This guy thinks of EVERYTHING! Thanks again, Earl.

Since I'm already here, and raving - can I just thank the people in #drupal-support? They're also awesome (and it's good to see Michelle typing in there again). Mostly, I was referred to a fantastic module called Better Formats, which allows you to provide a different default input filter for certain roles. Your administrators can automatically get "Full HTML" to paste in their YouTube embed code or whatever, but average Joe Commenter still gets filtered. I love it.

No matter how long you do this stuff, more modules keep coming out--and it's nice to have a deep resource of people who know what they are!