Drupal clarity
Published by on February 22nd, 2006
The learning curve with Drupal is becoming noticably shallower this week - that pleases me immensely. Perhaps the most important thing is that it is now clearly the right choice as a core application for the project: an internal communications intranet for Dennis Publishing Ltd.
The spec, to develop a non-corporate open inter-departmental communication system, reflected a social media style structure perfectly. Drupal’s accessible API and very extensible capabilities have provided me with a challenge but the kind I relish: a need to learn something new.
I can’t say I entirely agree with the way Drupal handles certain things - in particular the lack of object classes in the code - but the creation of new functionality modules are relatively straightforward once you get in there and start playing around. I may start to regret using the latest 4.7 beta to develop a live project, but there is no point in leaving the client stranded in a few months after I used what will rapidly become redundant code. All good fun.
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2 Responses to “Drupal clarity”
February 25th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Congratulations on finding Drupal to execute an open inter-departmental communication system. My company, Toomre Capital Markets, has used Drupal for more than a year now and highly recommends it for clients that need to manage public access to dynamic content. You have made a great choice here!
February 27th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Cheers Lars. It’s been a good few very late nights getting my head around the API, but it is coming together nicely. Drupal’s flexibility is matched by its complexity. I am absolutely satisfied it was the right solution for this job.