Views Datasource 6..x-1.0-BETA1 released

Just released a new version of my Drupal module. Views Datasource. Way too many changes and fixes to list, check the README.

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Oh man, finally got CDT and MinGW working. CDT 5.0.2 is not installing properly for  me - if You get errors like "Cannot run program "gcc": The system cannot find the file specified." or "Cannot run program "make": The system cannot find the file specified." you may need to get the Eclipse/CDT simultaneous release

Programming is pain (sometimes)

Last night I went to bed completely frustrated. I had spent probably 6 hours staring and poking at a piece of code and thinking what on earth could be wrong with it. It seemed functionally identical to the code I had been using as a guide, yet it didn't work. It didn't do anything - generate error messages, any messages at all - it just got silently ignored by the framework. Why, why, why, is all I could think about before going to bed.

But what I've learned and seen reinforced over and over again is - if you get completely stuck, step away from the problem for a while. Take a nap or a shower or watch a movie or do something to take your conscious mind away from it. Sure enough, when I woke up and went back at it, less than 1 hour in I spotted the discrepancy. I had a function included in a class definition, while my example code had the function outside the class. So I took it outside and hey presto it worked perfectly.

It still sucked though to have to go through all that frustration.