Posts Tagged ‘ drupal ’

Drupal in perspective

Drupal prides itself on its community aspect. And so it should as a truly open source system. One of the good things to come out of this is the principle that dissenting voices should be given a platform. Hopefully what they say gets taken on board too. A talk titled ‘Why I hate Drupal’ at [ READ MORE ]

Drupal: how to choose a CMS

  • April 19th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By matthew

Content mangement systems are numerous. Ultimately they all seem to offer very similar packages. At Kent University we've chosen Drupal because it's open-source and free, and allows us great flexibility in how we build our system up. An added bonus is that we should be able to contribute our work back to the community, and benefit other like-minded institutions[ READ MORE ]

Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition by John K. VanDyk

If you want to get at all serious about taking Drupal beyond a simple installation, Pro Drupal Development is going to be a massive help to you. If you’re anything like me you’ll come back to it again and again for reference and to try out some new ideas.  It covers all kinds of development areas such as [ READ MORE ]

Using Drupal by Angela Byron

Using Drupal is a great little book if you’re just starting out with Drupal, and want to know which modules could be useful for you. If you’re getting into true development stuff and want to play around with Drupal a bit more, the excellent Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk would be a much better choice. This [ READ MORE ]

Drupal Enterprise how-to

In a couple of earlier posts I mentioned how I thought Drupal could be used as an enterprise-level CMS, at least if you were willing to change modify your definition of ‘enterprise-level’ slightly. When thinking about deploying any CMS across a large organisation or large company, one of the things you’re going to find is that [ READ MORE ]

Hooked into Drupal

In my last blog I mentioned how Drupal really does seem to offer more than just the ability to get a simple site up and running quickly. Framework When you look at Drupal more closely you realise one key thing: it’s not really a CMS, it’s a framework. Granted, nothing quite like Symfony in terms of its level of sophistication, but [ READ MORE ]

Drupal as an enterprise CMS?

  I’ve been looking a lot recently at Drupal not just as an open source CMS, but as a viable enterprise level CMS. Despite my earlier misgivings I think Drupal has a lot going for it, and it may be that over the next couple of years it will become a much bigger force in the [ READ MORE ]

acquia

Acquia is a company set up by Dries Buytaert, the guy who developed drupal, in an apparent attempt to get drupal taken more seriously by companies and institutions. The idea seems to be that Acquia (carrying on the water theme: druppel means ‘drop’ in Flemish) will provide commercial level support for drupal. When a company or institution [ READ MORE ]

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