drupal advocacy
About San Diego Drupal Users Group
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on March 28, 2006 - 1:09pm.Drupal user groups are starting to crop up around the world, but there is currently no central location for these groups to organize. That is being changed. groups.drupal.org is currently being developed. When it is finished, our San Diego group will live there.
Meanwhile, please leave a comment here to express your interest.
If there are any existing DUGs in San Diego that I'm not aware of, please drop a link here so that we can join/coordinate.
Drupal Showcase
Here are some sites (in no particular order) that use drupal in an interesting way.
Doing Drupal development effectively
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on July 22, 2006 - 8:22pm.Clients seem to come in sets. A couple months back, I had several clients who had hired cheap off-shore companies 12 timezones away whose developers were curiously unavailable by phone, email or carrier pigeon. You probably already know the rest of the story: client needed to spend more money to have someone else go in and try to make it all work. (BTW, always use the term "refactored" rather than "threw out" when referring to the busted up stuff the client paid for).
Lately the theme has been clients who hired a 'Drupal developer' to do custom development and ended up with hacked up Drupal core, semi-working custom functionality and lots of odd behavior in different parts of the system. As an intelligent, hip, effective web entrepreneur, you should not strive for this.
What is Drupal?
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on April 10, 2006 - 11:34pm.Drupal is an open-source Content Management System (CMS), which is particularly suited to customization through use of blocks, themes and modules. Drupal's innovative use of taxonomy and its unique menu system allow for effective management of content as a site grows or evolves.
Drupal Powered Performancing Metrics Released
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on March 14, 2006 - 7:49pm.Today, the folks over at Performancing.com announced the realease of Performancing Metrics, a free new service for tracking statistics for Blogs. Best of all, it's all in Drupal.
A Drupal Metrics Tool for Bloggers?
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on March 10, 2006 - 10:56am.Rumor is spreading of some sort of new analytics tool from the blogging experts over at Performancing. This tool utilizes Drupal and is designed specifically for bloggers.
