Drupal

Drupal’s Views module is hugely powerful, but not always pretty.  Exposed filters are no exception.  The Views Filter Pack claims to do this but has some serious problems, including a lack of activity in the issue queue for the past three months.  This article gives a quick look into a new module I built to help improve the user’s experience with exposed filters.

Chris Wilson at Slate Magazine recently wrote an article criticizing WhiteHouse.gov for its move from a proprietary content management system (CMS) to the open-source Drupal CMS.  Unfortunately, Mr. Wilson has his facts wrong.  Let’s go through his arguments one at a time.

Malcolm Hooper and I recently launched a new Web site for UTCS, the daycare our daughters attend.  The school’s board of directors wanted to foster community among the parents, move paper-based administrative tasks online while maintaining security and privacy of the information being published.  Since I was volunteering my development time, I wanted to make this as turn-key as possible and minimize any custom development.

Sounds like a job for Drupal!

In a perfect world, you want all your websites to rely on the same code base.  That way a fix for one site is reflected in all the sites you manage.  This holds doubly true when you use any sort of framework software, such as Drupal, as there's nothing worse than going through a dozen different installs and rolling out the same patch over and over again.  Fortunately it is very easy to configure Drupal to run many websites from the same install.