Drupal

I've been meaning to write something about going to DC, and DrupalCon and all that jazz. I suppose I ought to, it's been... holy crap... almost a month. I've never been good about blogging about events, I'm usually too excited to write something near to when it's happened and then by the time that I get around to it.... I don't really want to be writing about that anymore and I make it all sound so droll...

I use WordPress to power one of my other blogs, and since I had some free time today I decided now might be a good time to upgrade to 2.5... and then I remembered one of the most irritating differences between WordPress and Drupal.... How the distribution of plugins/modules is handled within the community.

One of the common things about the web design and development industry is the fact that most of us started doing what we do by accident. It was often something that got picked up along the way as a hobby, like maintaining a blog... and it turned out we were good at it and we eventually made it a job.

I've been sitting here since Friday trying to mull over what to say about my Drupalcon experience... and all I can think to tell you is that I feel like I somehow caught the plague while I was down there... I started hacking my head off on Wednesday morning, and it's just gotten worse ever since. You seriously don't want to know about all the crap I've coughed up.

I'm notoriously bad about writing about events. I feel like whatever I write never does what I've just experienced justice... and I'm feeling that particularly true now...

Since being on Drupalcon this week, there's been a lot of interest in the Drupal hat.

A message for the non-knitting Drupallers: I don't have time to knit a Drupal hat for you, but I've published the pattern so your favorite knitter in your life can make one for you. Print out this pattern and give it to him/her with your best puppy dog eyes.

I love Drupal, really I do... but I have to admit, there are certain features in which it lacks out of the box which are extremely useful to bloggers which after using WordPress for years, you sort of take for granted.

A good example of this is comment notification.

With WordPress, you receive email notification when you receive a comment or a comment is put into your moderation queue (though I've had trouble with the latter actually working), thus you don't miss things.