That’s right, people. Barack Obama’s web team doesn’t just *use* open-source tools — Drupal in this case — they commit code and release modules to the community. Three of ’em.
Tag: drupal
An update on our Drupal conversion | yelvington.com
Steve Yelvington’s further notes on training news staffers on Drupal-as-news-CMS.
IdeaLab: DIY Django development at ReportingOn
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a bit of background on why I ended up building ReportingOn in Django instead of Drupal. Frankly, to the users of the site, it shouldn’t matter which platform I chose, but to me, and to the future of the project as an open source basis for news organizations, I think it matters a great deal.
Here’s a clip from the IdeaLab post:
“Did I need the structure Drupal came with for users, posts, archives, feeds, and comments? Probably. But there was a whole bunch of other baggage, like all the WYSIWYG block and module organization that I wasn’t as comfortable with. My first instinct was to start from scratch and build my own theme, but I quickly realized I needed to build my own content types. And views. And the file system was confusing to me, coming from WordPress. Plus, although the Drupal community is full of awesome people building awesome modules, I still couldn’t figure out how to do a few simple things, like create a content type with a maximum length (say, 140 characters).”
Bonus: Django is fun, challenging in a productive way, and I know a ton of people working and playing with it.
Drupal Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
Awesome list of links to useful Drupal resources and tutorials.
Drupal Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
WordPress Comments | drupal.org
A module for Drupal that makes the comments more like WordPress. Yay.
AD The Morning After | drupal.org
Nice Drupal theme, clean, good typography.
Zen | drupal.org
Extensible Drupal theme?
Modules: CCK | drupal.org
Additional modules to add different fields to content types with CCK in Drupal.
Turn a plain jane HTML template into a Drupal theme with the Theme Generator module. – Nick Sergeant
Nick’s really excited about this for his Drupal street-cred purposes, and I’m excited about due to how easy it’s going to make it for me to launch blogs on the community news sites I deal with at work.
Turn a plain jane HTML template into a Drupal theme with the Theme Generator module. – Nick Sergeant
Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant
Nick’s bits on Subversion are the crucial part of this for me. Gotta get started with that as soon as I switch web hosts.
Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant