You might call me cynical, but this is a ranty (and nothing new) list of complaints + FUDs against most web development / application frameworks. Seems like this is also a natural point of transition for believers in another (new) faith, that of self-help (albeit more self deception and vanity all the same).

You fit the bill, rather than the bill fitting you
So many times, it seems that the problem is with MVC as a concept itself. The inherently flat flavor most frameworks put MVC in action to makes it that much more difficult for large codebases. It can't be helped feeling that adopting an MVC design is in many cases, squeezing yourself into a car rather than walking into one.

I usually find three major uses of Dreamhost: Firstly (and importantly), as a backup dump, Secondly for SVN (Oops, not any more since I switched to github for good), Thirdly as cheap and slow hosting for mostly personal / hobby-network / friends sites. Contrary to people's complaints about Dreamhost, I find them extremely value providing (for shared hosting) for the money you pay them.

Now Drupal, as resource hungry as it is, is a pain on Dreamhost servers. I've had repeated painful experiences of the {menu_router} table getting half-rebuilt (or lesser) when I visit admin/build/modules before Dreamhost terminates the script for memory overconsumption, resulting in broken pages (and the annoyance of manually regenerating the table externally)

Long time no post. Been really caught up: Tons of work, travel, Acads. Anyway, I happened to be upgrading some old Drupal sites from 5.x -> 6.x. Here's a little SQL snippet to disable all non-core modules first.

UPDATE `system` SET `status` = 0
WHERE `name` != 'system' AND `name` !='block' AND `name` !='node' AND `name` !='user' AND `name` !='watchdog' AND `name` !='filter' AND `name` !='upload' AND `name` !='tracker' AND `name` !='throttle' AND `name` !='taxonomy' AND `name` !='statistics' AND `name` !='search' AND `name` !='profile' AND `name` !='poll' AND `name` !='ping' AND `name` !='path' AND `name` !='menu'

Assuming that the argument is a node ID, being sent (say from a panel, under most circumstances)

// grab nid from referring node
$args[0]=arg(1);
if(is_numeric(arg(1))){
$nid = arg(1); //node id
$term = taxonomy_node_get_terms_by_vocabulary($nid, 3); // 3 is the vid. Use your own Vocabualary ID!
$tids=key($term);
return $tids;
}

$args[1]=$tids;