Drupal 7.x

OK so we all know there are leaders in script mods and designs.

For example invisionize is the leader in invision skins and wordpress is the leader for wordpress themes.

Who is the "leader" for drupal themes? Is there a clear cut leader even?
Thanks in advance to whom ever answers my question!

By chance is there any work being done on the forum module for drupal 7? Any chance Views2 could be used as the interface for forums?

Hi,

I'd like to have shortcuts in the administer panel but I have no idea how this could be accomplished. The reason I'd like this is because I keep forgetting about the tabs behind certain admin sections. Wouldn't it be easyier for a lot of people if there were shortcuts like this:

I'm trying to create a (clean) D7 test site and get this:

Strict Standards: Declaration of DatabaseStatement::execute() should be compatible with that of PDOStatement::execute() in C:\www\webapps\drupal-7\includes\database\database.inc on line 1118

hello
i would like to build a module that will need to store user variables.
i can see in the user installation file this sentence about the data field :
"Use of this field is discouraged and it will likely disappear in a future version of Drupal"

what is the best way to do ?
should i build another table with my user variables ?

what will be changed ?

Greetings,

I was just curious if anyone could point me into the right direction for:

1) A good Drupal book (I'm not looking to start a debate here, I just want people's opinions)... I have background in C/C++/PHP/etc
is "Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right" supposed to be any good? How about "Using Drupal" (the O'Reilly book)? Any other suggestions?

2) Is there a Drupal newsgroup?

Best,

- drupal_grits