---
title: "Earl Miles on Views 3, Panels and CTools"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/earl-miles-on-views-3-panels-and-ctools"
type: episode
date: 2010-06-10
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Earl Miles on Views 3, Panels and CTools

#  Earl Miles on Views 3, Panels and CTools 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Earl Miles](http://www.angrydonuts.com/) (aka [merlinofchaos](http://drupal.org/user/26979)) talks about some of the new features in the upcoming release of [Views 3](http://drupal.org/project/views), the [Drupal 7 port of Views](http://groups.drupal.org/node/22346), [Panels](http://drupal.org/project/panels) and the [Chaos tool suite](http://drupal.org/project/ctools) (i.e. ctools).

Miles also talks about his recent move from Sony to becoming the Research & Development Director within [IO1](https://www.invage.com/). 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](http://groups.drupal.org/butler) architecture discussions during DrupalCon.