Matthew Bull

web development

Drupal Enterprise how-to

Friday, October 24th, 2008

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 ...

Hooked into Drupal

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

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 ...

Drupal as an enterprise CMS?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

  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 ...

acquia

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

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 ...