Earl Miles (aka merlinofchaos) talks about some of the new features in the upcoming release of Views 3, the Drupal 7 port of Views, Panels and the Chaos tool suite (i.e. ctools).

Miles also talks about his recent move from Sony to becoming the Research & Development Director within IO1. They created the IO1 Labs division in order to allow Miles to continue to innovate on so many important projects within the Drupal community. One of the projects that he's been working on is a Panels-based Drupal distro for site builders, and more details on that will be coming sometime in the future.

In addition to helping develop some of the biggest and most important Drupal modules, Miles talks about some of the functionality that has been transferred from some of his contributed modules into Drupal 7. And you can be sure that he'll continue to take a lot of the lessons learned from panels and context, and help improve these areas in Drupal 8 as he was participating in a lot of the Butler architecture discussions during DrupalCon.